La Crosse council approves 18-month delay on Kmart lot development; mental health facility approved

Developers will get another 18 months to hold out on new construction at the old Kmart lot near Losey Boulevard in La Crosse.

The city council Thursday granted the extension to Three-Sixty Real Estate Solutions. The developer plans to demolish the Kmart and replace it with apartments and mixed-use townhomes.

Three-Sixty hopes material costs and interest rates go down so it can move forward with the development.

Three-Sixty director of development, Jeremy Novak, talked about the delay back in August on La Crosse Talk PM (Novak joins 6 minutes, 30 seconds into show, and we dive into the Kmart details at the 20:30 mark).

Also, a conditional use permit was approved for a proposed community living facility on Jackson Street.

Tellurian Behavioral Health would use a former clinic on Jackson as a treatment center for mental health patients.

Neighbors to that area had argued last week that they weren’t opposed to a facility of that nature, but they didn’t want it in their neighborhood.