LACROSSE, Wis. – The Ho-Chunk Nation has been discussing a high-rise building in the new River Point project as a regional headquarters. Chief Marlon White Egle said he has met with Mayor Tim Kabat to discuss the building. The high-rise would include commercial office and retail space on the first floor, space for Ho-Chunk offices and youth services on the second floor, apartments on the next three or four floors, and condominiums on the top floor. “The effort is being made to diversify the Ho-Chunk Nation’s business opportunities, breaking away from gaming, and attempting a more sustainable venture that will endure through downward cycles in the economy,” White Eagle said. The building would overlook the confluence if the La Crosse and Mississippi rivers north of downtown.
The vision. One architectural view of the 65-acre mixed-use commercial and residential River Point project. The site now is largely a barren flood plan.