University Square (Madison) University Square (Madison) University Square Madison is a urban infill development in the City of Madison, Wisconsin. The planning for the University Square Project was started in 1999 by Greg Rice, owner of Executive Management, Inc. Greg chose Potter Lawson, Inc., in 1999 as the architect for the project. After years of planning, construction began on June 2, 2006 and was completed in August, 2008. The developer and majority owner of the project is Executive Management, Inc, a Madison based development firm, with Steve Brown Apartments and the University of Wisconsin as part owners. University Square consists of three main
Madison Square Garden (1879) one of the biggest sports in the country. "[T]he top riders [were] among the sports stars of their day. The bike races at Madison Square Garden were all the rage around the turn of the 20th century." Madison Square Garden was the most important bicycle racing track in the United States and the Olympic discipline known as the Madison is named after the original Garden. However, the roofless Garden was hot in the summertime and freezing in the wintertime. Vanderbilt eventually sold what "Harper's Weekly" called his "patched-up, grimy, drafty, combustible old shell" to a syndicate that included J. P.