OUR PLACE
Restaurateur David Scotney, who also owns Oakfire in downtown Lake Geneva, wants to build a supper club hidden within the trees in the city.
Swan Creek is planned for a 5.17-acre property near Interchange North and Center Street. The site plan concentrates development on a limited portion of the property while preserving substantial open space. The preliminary civil plans show that approximately 75% of the property remains green space. The proposed building, parking, and paved areas are concentrated on roughly 25% of the site. This allows Swan Creek to preserve much of the natural character of the property while still providing the access, parking, and circulation needed for a traditional supper club and gathering space.
City councilors voted unanimously Monday to postpone the vote regarding the conditional use permit for the proposed Swan Creek Supper Club. Councilors were concerned that they did not have all of the documents they needed to make an informed vote. “We want it so you don’t see a single car, you don’t see a single house, you are just in Wisconsin nature and feel like you’ve been transported back in time,” Scotney said. To preserve that image and prevent cars from going into neighborhoods, Scotney wants to build a new driveway on County Road H across from Sage Street instead of using Center Street for access.
Swan Creek commissioned an independent Traffic Impact Analysis to evaluate whether nearby roads and intersections can safely and efficiently accommodate the projected traffic. The study found that traffic volumes will increase, but that the roadway network and proposed access points are expected to operate safely and efficiently with the recommended improvements. Center Street was specifically evaluated as part of the traffic analysis, including existing crash history, intersection performance, and future traffic conditions.
Stone Ridge and nearby neighborhoods have raised questions about traffic patterns, safety, and quality of life. The traffic study projected that the majority of Swan Creek traffic would arrive from Interchange North and Sheridan Springs Road, not through residential streets. We will continue listening to neighborhood concerns as plans move forward. City council will take up the Swan Creek Supper Club conditional use permit vote again on June 22. If it is approved, they could start site work before this winter. He hopes to open Swan Creek Supper Club as early as fall 2027.
What in hell (real hell) is going on with the road destruction/construction at Interchange North in Lake Geneva?
Why does the Geneva Shore Report so seldom refer to street work as street work or highway repair as just that? The GSR has come to describe the work on roads and highways in and around Southern Wisconsin as ‘Highway Robbery.’ They keep doing the same thing over and over again, laying down asphalt over cracked or broken concrete and previous layers of asphalt. The charge is about one half the cost of digging the mess up and doing it right…as well as having it last for about twenty years instead of three or four. This is Southern Wisconsin, not South Florida! Expansion and contraction live and breathe here.
On another ‘roady’ note, what in hell is going on with Highway 12 heading up into Elkhorn from Lake Geneva or back down to the city?
This is a strange one in that the work being done (at least the ground being plowed and piled up) is being done between the two north-south corridor highways, not on the highway road surfaces themselves. What, in God’s name, is that all about, not that it’s as big a mess to deal with as the Interchange North stuff? So far, that work, that many readers drive by all the time, is a mystery. We are investigating to see what the workers are really doing, although it is difficult because of the danger of stopping along that highway. We must figure out another way.
