FOND DU LAC, WI (WTAQ) – Officials of the two-year UW colleges want an Iowa developer to guarantee that a new student housing complex will open on time this fall at the Fond du Lac campus.
They also want a promise that the new building will be free of problems which affected similar complexes at the colleges in Marshfield and Baraboo.
Bluffstone, of Bettendorf Iowa, has asked for a one semester delay in completing its new three-story, 84-bed structure at Fond du Lac. If the delay is granted, Fond du Lac County might opt-out of a lease agreement with Bluffstone — since the deal required the building to be ready by fall.
Previous media reports indicated that students have been living in the Marshfield and Baraboo housing facilities without occupancy permits from local building inspectors. Also, subcontractors have complained that they have not been paid for the work they did at those two sites.
Bluffstone’s Tim Baldwin said a Kentucky firm which hired the subcontractors was the one that didn’t pay up.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
