Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Despite heavy criticism from neighbors, the Village President wants to know if he has the Board's support to move forward with the Walmart project.
The Village Board will decide whether to draft an amendment to the land use plan at a Board meeting tonight that could allow a Walmart to be built on State Highway 31 and Four Mile Road. But the discussion won't be specific to just that corner. Rather, the Board will consider a study that could change the land use plan for all of Highway 31 in Caledonia. Tom Lebak, the village administrator, said that in order to move forward with any kind of commercial development, in this case Walmart, the land use plan would need to be changed. “The Village President requested that this item be put on the agenda,” Lebak said. “The bottom line is that he’ll be asking the board: do you want to proceed with the process of changing the land use plan, which …
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State Road 31 & 4 Mile Rd, Racine, WI
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
California-based company moved to the village to be near the utility's expanded power plant.
A California company has revitalized an old building in Caledonia and found a way to make eco-friendly building materials out of ash from the nearby We Energies power plant. It’s not a partnership Tom Pounds expected when CalStar Products went looking for a place for its first manufacturing facility. But it has become a business relationship that Pounds hopes will help the Newark, CA-based business fulfill its mission of green building innovation and advance We Energies’ efforts to reduce its own environmental footprint. It’s a vision We Energies shares, spokesman Brian Manthey said. “We’re at the point where we’re finding a beneficial use for close to 100 percent of our coal ash produced in making electricity. CalStar is just another …
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
The project’s total price tag, including the purchase price, remodeling costs and interest is $9.6 million.
The Racine Unified School District’s new Administrative Service Center will occupy two buildings on the former Surgitek campus on Mount Pleasant Street, the School Board’s audit committee was told Monday. David Hazen, RUSD chief financial officer, shared floor plans that showed how the buildings will likely be used when district offices are relocated later this year from 2220 Northwestern Ave. The School Board late last year purchased the former Surgitek buildings and land for $3.8 million. The deal included the sale of the Northwestern Avenue site for $500,000. When plans were initially discussed for moving the Administrative Service Center (ASC) offices to the new location, all district offices and functions were to have been under one …
Brian Dey
3:03 pm on Friday, May 6, 2011
Rich - I couldn't agree more. more ›