5/19/2025

VILAS COUNTY - Demolition of the former Killian Hospital/health care center on Highway 17 in Phelps has been underway, with site development to begin soon.

 Recommendations for the site include market-rate condominium/townhomes, retail space featuring grocery, hardware, and home goods, and a potential hotel. The recommendations, architectural renderings, and site plan need final approval from the Town of Phelps. Last month, the town of Phelps received a $24,900 grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s Thrive Rural Wisconsin Program to hire an architectural firm to develop renderings and a site plan for the site of the health care center, located on a 5.2 acre bluff overlooking North Twin Lake. The grant represents the second half of the $50,000 Thrive Rural Wisconsin Grant awarded to the Vilas County Economic Development Corporation for the project. Demolition is expected to be finished sometime in June.