UWM Accelerator Building Advances – on 'Discovery Parkway'
Common Council approves research facility and the new name of the city street that will serve it.
With a single, unanimous vote and no debate, the Wauwatosa Common Council approved the construction of UWM's business accelerator building in Innovation Park and named the city street that will be built to serve it. Technically, both resolutions were amendments to existing documents. The accelerator building is an amendment to a Business Planned Development for the Innovation Park project that incorporates the design plan for the structure. Called a "business incubator" in the resolution, the 25,000-square-foot building will house a prototyping labratory and other facilities in which research will be put into practice to prove concepts. Academic researchers will work alongside private developers to build those concepts into workable …
