The city of Janesville is launching its new General Motors site redevelopment board with its first meeting this week — and a walking tour of the GM site.
The 11-person panel’s first meeting comes Wednesday, a session the city says will have an organizational bent along with a historical overview of the city’s dealings with the former GM site.
The group will get a chance following the meeting to traipse on the 250-acre, blighted site — but they won’t dive into any hard conversations on the GM site’s reuse, at least not for the next few months.
First, the city says in a timeline released Monday, the panel would focus on selecting a consultant to help them and the city administration on a roadmap forward, a conceptual redevelopment and cleanup plan for the GM site.
That process rolls out over the next three months.
According to the timeline, the panel would start work in January with the new consultant on public engagement and initial concepts for redevelopment of the site.
That would set up the GM panel to release a draft redevelopment plan for public review by mid-year.
Under the city’s timeline, summer and and fall 2026 would be when the panel begins to galvanize a final GM site redevelopment plan.
The plan could go to the city council for final review – and possible adoption by the end of 2026.
The city says alongside upcoming public engagement opportunities early next year, all the GM panel’s meetings will be broadcast on JATV, the city’s website, and on YouTube
