The venerable Pres House, which has served students on the UW-Madison campus for nearly 75 years, wants to build a new six-story housing facility. The Madison Plan Commission approved a rezoning for the project Monday night but asked that developers rework a complicated plan for complying with the city’s affordable housing law.
The 75,000-square-foot building would provide 44 housing units with 153 bedrooms and 233 total beds. Plans also call for renovation of the existing 15,000-square-foot chapel and offices.
Pres House representative Charles Oewel of CFC Corp. in Belvedere, Calif., said the final look of the project arose out of discussions with UW officials regarding redevelopment of the entire Murray Street block. He said the project was scaled down from eight stories to six stories to accommodate the UW’s wishes.