Madison housing co-op timeline 1980-89

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1980's

  • Langdon Area Grocery Co-op closes
  • Lakeside Co-op Apartments started
  • MCC office moved to Brooks St. YMCA, which later becomes the Community Housing and Services (CHAS) building
  • Isthmus Engineering & Manufacturing becomes a worker co-op
  • Yoga co-ops started?

1980

  • Red Pine and Badger Co-op join MCC as Class B members.
  • Nottingham becomes a Class B member.
  • 946 Spaight St. purchase approved, then reversed by referendum.
  • Groves Co-op joins as a Class B member, then purchased by MCC for $31,000. Grove's Co-op was later Mulberry, then Hypatia.

1981

  • Lakeside Press started.
  • Intra-Community Cooperative (ICC) becomes North Farm Cooperative.

1982

  • MCC office moves to the "U-Y" building, 306 N. Brooks St.
  • Lakeside Press joins the Industrial Workers' of the World

1983

  • Syntropy Co-op was founded.
  • Community Pharmacy moves to present location on Madison's State Street.

1987

  • MCC sells Tralfamadore
  • Groves goes coed to become Mulberry Co-op

1988

  • Ofek Shalom becomes a member of MCC.
  • 750 people march up Langdon protesting racism in UW's Greek system.

1989

  • Nature's Bakery becomes collective.
  • Rainbow Bookstore Opens.
  • 600 UW profsors reject anti-gay ROTC.

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