Janesville GM plant site frozen under continued state environmental review

JANESVILLE -- The mammoth former General Motors plant site in Janesville is still idle—“buttoned up” for a long winter, as one local real estate broker put it.

And sources say that likely will remain so for months as the owner of the former GM site awaits a state Department of Natural Resources environmental review that city officials said is now several months overdue, apparently delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on state agencies.

That ties up about half of the 250-acre industrial brownfield property—by far the largest bloc of such land in Janesville held by any single private or public owner.

After more than two years of heavy demolition and debris removal, owner Commercial Development’s cleanup crews appear to be gone, at least for the time being.

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