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Real estate developer Al Paas says that he has had “a close affinity for Woodstock for 25 years.” After Paas purchased the building at 103 Van Buren St. in 1994 – now the location of Material Things – he has continued to invest in Woodstock. In late February, Paas bought the building at 105 Van […]


Plans have changed for that retail/residential building proposed for the northwest corner of Madison and Church streets. In fact, the project evolved into a residential/storage building with no commercial element. And now it’s planned as apartments only, 24 of them over four floors, with tenants having exclusive use of the city-owned parking lot directly to […]

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