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Marshfield Offers Historic Neighborhoods and Retirement Homes
What's small and quiet, but booming with growth and opportunities? If you guessed Marshfield, you're right! Recently ranked No. 5 on Forbes 2010 list of the Best Small Cities to Raise a Family, Marshfield gives residents a long list of bragging rights for calling this place home. Quality of life measures such as commute times, educational attainment and cost of living were part of Forbes' criteria for choosing cities with populations under 100,000, making Marshfield a superb choice... Read More »
Retirees Find Tranquil Living at Veterans Parkway Estates
Veteran’s Parkway Estates is the first development in Marshfield to cater to adults nearing retirement or already there. Developer Larry Shortess got the idea after spending several winters in Florida and looking around at other such communities in Wisconsin.
“If it works in Wausau, why won’t it work here?” he says. At capacity, Veteran’s Parkway Estates will have 34 condos, two units to a building. They come in three sizes: 1,900, 1,600 and 1,400 square feet,... Read More »
Marshfield Businesses Get Creative in Going Green
Marshfield is getting a needed facelift of the environmental variety.
City officials and local professionals are linking arms with the city’s clean-energy advocates to make the community a more eco-friendly place to live, while putting a portion of residents’ energy costs back into their pockets.
For example, Sustainable Marshfield is a committee composed entirely of private citizens that was established by the city council in early 2007 and focuses on three avenues of improving the environment... Read More »
