In the original story, headlined “Final piece of the puzzle” in print and “2 redevelopment plans emerge for Downtown Madison’s last vacant block” on madison.com, Korte detailed two proposals for Block 113. Better known as the Brayton Lot, the block bordered by East Washington Avenue and South Hancock, East Main and Butler streets has been targeted for redevelopment by the city for decades.
One section about “The Grove,” a proposal from Neutral, a Madison real estate development firm, outlined plans for a “food hall prioritizing minority-owned vendors” and a “community advisory board” that would shape the development’s public life. Neither of those features, nor the name “The Grove,” appear in Neutral’s proposal linked from a city press release listing the firms that responded to its RFP.
“It’s all wrong,” says Daniel Glaessl, Neutral’s chief product officer. No reporter had contacted the firm about the project before Isthmus reached out on Thursday afternoon, he says.