La Crosse's green bubblers, demolishing Kmart and selling the north library with city council president Dickinson

About this episode

The episode discusses the potential demolition of Kmart, the sale of the north side library, and updates on the green bubblers with city council president Tamra Dickinson.

Bringing down La Crosse’s Kmart, what ever happened to the green bubbler talk from last year and the potential selling of the north side library. Those were some of the big topics we discussed with city council president Tamra Dickinson ahead of their monthly Thursday meeting. We started with the north library, which is scheduled to close for good June 15. Dickinson walks us through the process of declaring it a surplus property and how they get proposals from different groups about what they’d want to do with the building. After that, we hit on the Kmart proposal from Three-Sixty Real Estate Solutions. The council could approve Phase 1 of Three-Sixty’s plans Thursday, which might mean the Kmart comes down yet this year. Dickinson is the chair of the Aviation Board, and we spent some time discussing the turnaround the airport has seen over the past year, adding flights, and what could happen next over there. Lastly, those green bubblers. It was all the talk last summer, but that attention has significantly died down. Dickinson, though, says there are plans in motion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Rick Solem

Guest: Tamra Dickinson

Topics covered

• Kmart demolition
• north library sale
• green bubblers
• city council
• airport turnaround

Keywords

• Kmart
• north library
• green bubblers
• La Crosse
• city council
• Tamra Dickinson
• Three-Sixty Real Estate Solutions
• airport

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Three-Sixty Real Estate Solutions

Places: La Crosse, north side library

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