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Shortly after 2 p.m. Monday, about a dozen employees from Aacer Flooring in Peshtigo climbed out of the white van and headed into work at the flooring manufacturer.The trip from Green Bay to the Peshtigo plant was the first in a new program aimed at providing affordable transportation for workers while at the same time allowing the company to out and retain workers from a wider geographic area.Chris LeRoy of Green Bay was one of those making the trip. It was his first day on the job and the idea of taking a vanpool was one of the selling points to his new job, he said."This is a big deal because transportation is key," said LeRoy, who had been out of work for several weeks.

He likely wouldn't have sought a job nearly an hour outside of Green Bay without the opportunity to use cost-effective transportation.The vanpool started operating Monday between the Wisconsin Job Center on Cherry Street in Green Bay and Aacer Flooring in Peshtigo.The operation is a pilot program organized by the Madison-based nonprofit Forward Service Corp. to help employees find work in the area and to help employers tap into a larger geographic pool of workers.Riders pay $35 a month to use the service with Ohio-based VPSI Inc. providing the van and insurance.

The service is run with funding from the Wisconsin Employment Transportation Assistance Program and other sources."Transportation is one of the largest needs out there," said Marcia Christiansen, CEO of Forward Service Corp. "If we can figure out how to make more of these happen it will help a lot of people and employers."Mai Yia Yang has been working on the program for Forward Service Corp. for about a year lining up potential business partners with Aacer, the first to sign on. She is working with other businesses in Northeastern Wisconsin to establish additional service.

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Developer Jeff LaPour took an early shot at downtown redevelopment, buying the landmark Holsum bread factory on Charleston Boulevard in 2004 and converting it into Holsum Lofts, originally designed as a live-work project.That didn't quite pan out.LaPour's cost of renovation made it unfeasible for the residential component. The market at that time proved to be much stronger for commercial use, so LaPour leased the space to businesses that fit in with the burgeoning Arts District.

Today, Holsum is fully occupied, with a waiting list. Tenants include a design studio, art gallery, dance theater, architectural firm and Lola's Cafe. Many in the development community see it as a perfect example of adaptive reuse of a historic building.Now LaPour wants to transform the dilapidated former Mission Linen warehouse at First Street and Coolidge Avenue into a $5 million mixed-use project in a joint venture with building owner Jim Page.They will add another 10,000 square feet to the 30,000-square-foot building and develop about 50 residential units with a bar, restaurant and small offices.While luxury condominium projects such as The Ogden, Newport Lofts and Juhl have struggled just a few blocks away, LaPour sees good demand for downtown housing - if it's the right product.

"The right kind of unique, vintage building reimagined as urban lofts," he said, standing next to the brick building with broken windows and rusted pipes hanging over the alley. "It's a completely different type of product. It's not new construction that you could find anyplace. It's an old industrial building. It comes with all the cool and interesting architectural elements that you cannot find today - wood truss roof, barrel vault ceilings, big open spaces. Think meatpacking district in New York."The market for downtown housing has changed, he said."It's all there now, no longer a last resort for many, as it has been known," LaPour said.

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