David Carley, father of UW-Green Bay’s first apartments

The death Wednesday of liberal political figure and Madison developer David Carley at age 80 is worth a mention on the UW-Green Bay campus. Carley was the private developer who in early 1970 broke ground on the Bay Apartment complex, putting nine two-story buildings with a capacity of about 600 students right in the back yard of the brand-new campus. For their first decade the apartments were a commercial operation operated by the builder, Public Facilities Associates, a division of Inland Steel Development Corporation. (They were then purchased and annexed on behalf of the University.) Carley, an anti-war candidate for governor, was a public figure in those days; in March 1971 students celebrated the grand opening of a coffeehouse in the basement of Building 107 by naming it Carley’s Place in his honor. Carley also served as a UW regent. For more, see the Capital Times editorial at www.madison.com/opinion/