Developer Robert Dunn is moving to get a building permit for his $98 million redevelopment of the Edgewater hotel and estimates the project will produce 700 construction jobs starting around October. Dunn expects the hotel will create 250 permanent jobs in addition to 100 to 150 indirect jobs in the area when it reopens in 2014. Steve Cover, the city’s director of Planning, Community and Economic Development, said land use approvals given in May 2010 are good through early 2013. Outside the last two requirements, “It appears it is basically ready to go,” he said. Dunn intends to break ground on UW-Madison’s homecoming weekend Oct. 26 and finish the project in the late spring of 2014.
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