City of Delafield - RedPraire Corporation, a $200 million dollar Waukesha based company that produces business computer programs and software, announced its intentions today to build a 120,000 square foot, four story corporate headquarters near the interchange of Highway C and Interstate 94.

The headquarters building which will be able to accommodate about 450 to 500 employees will be one of four buildings included in  a technology park proposed by RP Technology Development Group of Delafield.

"The Delafield location offers the positive qualities of our old location, while adding new features that our employees will enjoy. This includes promixity to Lapham Peak State Park and downtown Delafield," the company said in a new release issued Tuesday morning.

The company presently maintains two offices - one of which is the corporate headquarters - in Waukesha.

According to company officials, RedPrairie generated about $253 million in revenues in 2007 and employees 1,300 employees world wide with 350 based in Wisconsin.

RP Technology Development group includes Rob Gerbitz who has served as chief operating officer for developer Bob Lang and George B Erwin III who has served as Lang's attorney. Other partners inlcude Briohn Building Corporation of Brookfield and Zilber Ltd. of Milwaukee.

Gerbitz said the site includes 25 acres of land that Lang is selling to RP Technology Development group. Lang owns about fifty acres of land located south of the interchange.

Lang was unsuccessfull in his efforts about three years ago to develop a large multi use residential and commercial development on about 80 acres of land near the interchange.

City of Delafield - The Public Works Committee has partly endorsed - but also partly blocked - a proposal to extend the southern half of Oneida Street north and west to connect with Genesee Street in the downtown business district.

The committee unanimously agreed Wednesday night to recommend allowing a private road linking Oneida Street to Genesee Street provided that future owners of land along the road agreed to residential development.

If the future owners want to commercially develop the three acres of land along the road, the committee recommends they be permitted a single drive way access into the property from Genesee Street and not be permitted to connect Oneida and Genesee Streets.

The committee also recommended that the road or drive way be dedicated to the city so it could be converted into a public road or driveway in the future.

The committee is also recommending that easements be granted to abutting property owners so they might be able to connect to the road or driveway in the future.

The Oneida-Genesee Streets connection was proposed last week by Rob Gerbitz, chief operating officer for development Bob Lang.

Gerbitz told the Plan Commission that the connection was necessary in order to improve access to the three acre parcel of land  behind City Hall that Lang is trying to sell to an unidentified buyer.

The Plan Commission referred the proposal to the Public Works Committee which is made up of citizens and city officials with expertise in design, engineering and construction of public works projects.

The Plan Commission, possibly the Common Council, and perhaps the Public Works Committee may all have to approve design plans for the road or driveway before it can be built.

Committee members repeatedly complained during the meeting Wednesday that they were not provided adequate information about the potential future uses of land to make a determination whether the two streets should be connected.

Committee member Art Bauman predicted that residents living along Oneida Street would "scream bloody murder" if the land was developed for commercial purposes and Oneida Street was connected to Genesee Street.

Committee Chairman Dan Jashinsky and committee member Patrick Hawley expressed reservations about allowing another street to connect to Genesee Street.

They said they were concerned that the intersection of the new connection might be dangerous and would require another stop sign to be installed on one of the city's main streets.

No one representing Lang attended the meeting. City Engineer Mike Court of Yaggy Colby Associates told the committee that Lang has not identified who is likely to buy the land or how it will be used in the future.

Lang owns 14 of 30 acres of undeveloped land located south and east of city hall. Some downtown property owners have suggested that either Oneida or Division Streets should be extended to Genesee Street in order to allow better access to the land.

The southern half of Oneida Street presently dead ends near  a federally subsidized apartment complex and Division Street dead ends near City Hall.

City of Delafield - Newly elected Mayor McAleer says the city should impose a three to four month moratorium on new development in the downtown business district to give city planners time to update the business district's land use plan.

McAleer said that City Planner Roger Dupler of Yaggy Colby Associates, the city's consulting engineering and planning firm, is working on the details of a moratorium proposal that will be on the agenda for the next Common Council meeting on May 19.

McAleer told the council Monday night that the moratorium was necessary because he was anticipating that new land owners and developers will be making presentations in the future to the council for new development plans.

"I don't want those plans approved piecemeal before we get a chance to complete an update of the downtown plan," he told the council.

City officials have been discussing for several months developing a revised downtown land use plan. The new plan might include development of a new street and traffic grid system downtown, according to McAleer.

Some downtown property owners have proposed extending either Division or Onieda streets to Genesee Street to provide better access to about 30 acres of undeveloped land located south and east of City Hall.

Developer Bob Lang owns three separate parcels totaling about 14 acres behind city hall. McAleer said that Lang is attempting to sell the property.

"Now is probably a good time to do it (the moratorium). Because of the economy we don't have developers beating down our door," said McAleer.

McAleer, who served as mayor from 1994 to 2002, supported a city wide moratorium that was imposed in 2000 to give city planners a chance to up date the city's zoning code.

McAleer was elected to another term as mayor in April.

City of Delafield - City officials are apparently going to explore the feasibility of providing a new street access connection from Genesee Street east to about 30 acres of undeveloped land located behind City Hall.

Developer Bob Lang received tenative, preliminary approval Wednesday night from the Plan Commission to change language in a land easement to permit vehicle access to Genesee Street along an alley he owns that is south of the Fire Station.

Rob Gerbitz, chief operating officer for Lang, told the Plan Commission that Lang is negotiating the sale of land he owns near city hall.

Gerbitz said improved access to Genesee Street may be necessary in order to complete negotiations on a three acre parcel south and east of City hall.

Changing the language in the easement would allow South Oneida Street to  be extended north and west to connect with Genesee Street, according to Gerbitz.

Mayor Ed McAleer and Alderwoman Beth Leonard, both members of the Plan Commission, said final approval of the easement will be contigent upon a review by the Public Works Committee.

McAleer and Leonard said they want the city to conduct a comprehensive review of whether to provide an additional street connection from Genesee Street to the land behind city hall.

Lang and former Mayor Jim Behrend own the largest shares of the 30 acres that city officials have said could be available for retail and residential development.

Lang has three seperate parcels totaling about 14 acres all of which he plans to sell, according to Gerbitz.