Business View Magazine | September 2020

329 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2020 operations elsewhere. As a result, Sun Prairie now has a brand new industrial building right on the edge of town that is available for lease by Riddell. “That was an unanticipated challenge for the City,” says Stechschulte, “but we’re working with them on it. We’d like to see that building occupied by the end of this year or next spring. In other news, the Hilton Garden Inn is open and offers a great event/meeting space. The new Menard’s Home Improvement retail store is open. And the new Full Mile Beer Company & Kitchen in our downtown has a brewery on the first floor and an event venue on the second floor and a rooftop garden area. It’s open and doing quite well, while under the current COVID-19 restrictions.” Affordable workforce housing for those making less than 60 percent of the Dane County median income is important to the community. Two projects have been built in the original traditional main street corridor, adding 140 to SUN PRA I R I E , WI SCONS IN 150 units of workforce housing. Stechschulte shares, “With the City taking on an increasing interest in affordable housing, we were actively looking for a development partner who could bring us the right type of project with the best chance of being successful. When Gorman & Company proposed their Eleven41 project on Main Street, we knew they had an excellent project resume as a developer, and an equally great reputation as a project manager. Their knowledge, experience, and professionalism was outstanding, and they were great to work with. We are confident that the Sun Prairie housing market would welcome another project from Gorman.” The City is now evaluating another new project on central Main Street as a redevelopment project at the predominate corner of Main and Bird Street for 100 units of senior housing in that same income category. In addition to Sun Prairie’s unique manufacturing businesses, technology-driven businesses are also producing amazing products.