It’s not much to look at right now, but a downtown property owner hopes a dilapidated parking lot near Janesville City Hall could be transformed into a “gateway” to west side downtown.
Paul Murphy said he and his brother Tom Murphy are working with a developer to build a new set of storefronts—three office suites along with a drive-thru coffee and sandwich shop—in a lot now used for overflow church parking at High and Wall streets.
Murphy said a developer approached him during the height of the pandemic last summer and suggested the 6,000-square-foot lot would make a good location for a 3,200-square-foot set of commercial suites with an anchor drive-through coffee and sandwich shop geared toward light breakfast and brunch fare.
During a walk around the underused lot, Murphy said the commercial project, which is being called the Wall Street…
