City leaders look at redevelopment possibilities of Oscar Mayer plant
Madison city leaders are trying to put together a vision for the site of the soon-to-be vacant Oscar Mayer plant.
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Madison city leaders are trying to put together a vision for the site of the soon-to-be vacant Oscar Mayer plant.
The Madison mayor's office has released nearly 2,000 pages of emails in response to an open records request from Sen. Scott Fitzgerald about the impending closure of Madison's Oscar Mayer plant.
A state senator is asking for records about what local officials knew about Oscar Mayer's impending closure in Madison.
Newly released records point to a reason for the lack of contact between Wisconsin's job-creation agency and Kraft Heinz before the food conglomerate announced the closing of Madison's Oscar Mayer plant last year.
With the Oscar Mayer plant set to close, people shared ideas with city leaders Wednesday night about what to do with the upcoming vacant site.
The first round of terminations at the Oscar Mayer plant will affect 141 employees and is expected to start in February, according to a release.
The Oscar Mayer plant not only means something to adults who work there, but also to kids in our community who benefit from funding and outreach programs Oscar Mayer provides.
There is hope in the form of job training for hundreds of soon-to-be-former Oscar Mayer workers. A number of local groups said they are committed to keeping those workers working somewhere else in Madison.
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said Thursday he would not have been interested in presenting a package similar to one offered in Davenport, Iowa, to keep a Kraft Heinz plant in that city.
No one was injured in a chemical spill at Oscar Mayer on Madison's north side Wednesday afternoon, according to a release from the Madison Fire Department.