MADISON, Wis. -- After sitting as a vacant lot in the heart of downtown for years, the site of Madison College's former Downtown campus is one step closer to becoming an 11-story hotel, after the ...

The $131 million project would turn the MATC Downtown campus into an upscale hotel and fill the rest of the block it sits on with a 10-story office building.

MATC, with its downtown campus nearby, has only recently provided student housing. The college previously leased apartments for 60 students at Eleven25 at Pabst , a student housing complex at 1125 N.

Rather than renovate the 60-year-old state office building that sits on the site Madison Area Technical College has identified as the future home of an expanded South Side campus, officials plan ...

The $131 million project would turn the MATC Downtown campus into an upscale hotel and fill the rest of the block it sits on with a 10-story office building.