As of June 1, about 40 households had signed leases for apartments ranging in size from 613 square feet one-bedrooms to 2,100 ...

Downtown living is the ideal. Hewes said what he’d most like to see return is downtown living. The Gulfport Town Center, a proposed mixed-use project, is still being planned, he said.

The Wisconsin Rapids Common Council will consider whether to adopt the downtown master plan at its next meeting in June.