BW, good to hear from another Wisconsinite. I garden just west of Lake Winnebago, and almost any bean grown for snaps will succeed here. Getting dry seed can be more difficult (if you want to save your own seed), but most varieties will ripen at least a little dry seed before frost, if planted early.
If space is an issue, you can plant beans in the same place they were last year... but it does run the risk of increasing disease problems over time. If you have a bad disease year, let the space go fallow for at least a year, or plant something other than beans (such as tomatoes), and go back to beans the following year. To get better use of the space, I would recommend replacing the bush beans with pole bean alternatives; Fortex and Emerite are two you might be happy with. If you would like to try either of them, PM your address, I'd be happy to send you some.
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