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Dave Zweifel: Some only hear noise in downtown’s boom

The other day on his Web site, waxingamerica.com, a tongue-in-cheek Paul Soglin suggested that we move the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall to Belmont, the little southwestern Wisconsin town that was the state’s first capital.

His remarks were aimed at the difficulty that architect Bob Sieger is having trying to get the city’s Plan Commission to let him construct a building at the corner of Regent and Monroe Streets, smack dab across the street from the Field House and football stadium.