| 4/28/2009 3:00:00 PM | Email this article • Print this article | River Mill windows return next week
Peggy Vlerebome
Courier Staff Writer
Reinstallation of restored windows will begin next week on the first floor on the west side of River Mill Resort, and there will be "big changes in the next month," partner Bob Przewlocki said Monday.
He and partner David Landau said they want to make a gathering place at the former cotton mill in time for Madison's Bicentennial birthday party June 6-14. The plans include terracing, landscaping, an outdoor grill and possibly a daiquiri bar, "a fun place for people to enjoy themselves," Przewlocki said.
To that end, they are inviting anyone who wants to volunteer to help with the landscaping work to contact them by sending an e-mail to info@rivermillresort.com. Anyone interested in running the grill can also contact them.
Przewlocki and Landau received a certificate of appropriateness Monday night from the Historic District Board of Review for the roof, landscaping, signs, decks and doors for the development on Vaughn Drive at St. Michael's Avenue. The certificate is the go-ahead required for development in the historic district.
One change that was made since the application for the certificate was filed was that there will not be a glass door on the green building on the property. There will be a wooden door instead, Przewlocki said.
Przewlocki and Landau said they would welcome the donation of an old wooden door that would be suitable for the entrance beneath the year 1884 above the doorway on the St. Michael's side. It needs to be 36 inches wide and 6-feet-8-inches high, but slightly different measurements could work, Przewlocki said. He said they might replace it later with a door they build.
The signs that were approved also will be wooden, and will not have lighting inside them, he said in answer to a question from board member Ginger Jorgensen.
"Everything's going to be wood," he said.
"I love you guys," Jorgensen said.
Przewlocki said after the meeting that inside, the floors will be wood, but not the wood that is there now. The existing factory flooring is not old planks but instead is thin wood over the subfloor, and the thin wood is not in good shape, he said. The new floors will be considerably higher than the existing floor, with insulation in between for privacy.
He also said that several hotel companies are talking to him about the hotel part of the development, which also will include condominiums, restaurants and retail spaces.
When the Historic Board voted its approval, Historic Madison Inc. executive director John Staicer, who was in the audience, said, "Hallelujah."
In other news at the Historic Board meeting, board attorney Jeannie Stotts said she was contacted by the attorney for a property owner who might want to demolish a building in the historic district, and wanted clarification of the city's demolition policy. She did not identify the owner. Staicer is going to help the board research it.
Also at the meeting, the board approved a certificate of appropriateness for the city to remove the overhangs at the drive-through and above the back door at City Hall, and replace them with cloth awnings, and to install cloth awnings above the police department entrances. The awnings will be burgundy color and the city logo will be imprinted in gold on the awning over the back entrance, building inspector Mike Hoffman said.
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