Wednesday, September 28, 2011

In "Broke" Wisconsin, New Interchange, Road To Serve Pabst Farms Mall Never Built

Still some nice corn growing out in Pabst Farms between the Interstate and some of the project's residential and commercial developments, but...
Remember the Pabst Farms "upscale" mall that would be accessible from a new, full diamond interchange off I-94 in Western Waukesha County? The road work is proceeding and the area will have a new grid, and there's still no mall, but the powers that be have insisted on this project, for years, though the marketplace has been singing a different tune.
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2011 at 8:29 AM

    An insider deal last year by the Ocon. Common Co. and P.F. "That agreement dropped the assessed value of the site of Pabst Farms Town Center from $32 million to $115,000, costing the city $500,000 a year in property taxes." until 2014. (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn5302/is_20100907/ai_n55199926/). Your second image of the cornfield is P.F., total equalized value $115,000- a $20+ million dollar interchange for ???. Crony capitalism at it's worst. Gotta love Waukesha Co. bastion of conservatism.

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  2. JBSeptember 28, 2011 at 9:47 AM

    I passed the construction project on the way home from the Milwaukee airport on Sunday. It looks like a highway to nowhere, exemplifying the concretized thinking of the Walker administration.

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  3. Reagan's DiscipleSeptember 28, 2011 at 3:57 PM

    Sorry JB.

    This was planned long before Walker was ever elected.

    Perhaps you should check to see if Jim Doyle has any friends in the "off-ramp" construction business.

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  4. Paul TrotterSeptember 28, 2011 at 5:58 PM

    WALKER'S interchange to nowhere? Dare we say?

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  5. Reagan's DiscipleSeptember 29, 2011 at 8:20 AM

    Again,

    For those who have problems understanding simple things....

    This was not Walker's project. It has been planned for years and if memory serves me correct, came about during the Doyle administration.

    Nice try though!

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  6. James RowenSeptember 29, 2011 at 10:04 AM

    The project was approved under Doyle, but also by TheCity of Oconomowoc. Walker could have pulled the plug. I believe the County pull its share, which was minimal. State taxpayers are on the hook for most of it.

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  7. Reagan's DiscipleSeptember 29, 2011 at 4:53 PM

    .... wait, so now we want Walker to STOP Doyle's public transportation projects?

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  8. James RowenSeptember 29, 2011 at 4:55 PM

    To RD: You are hung up on the originator of the project. I have been calling it an interchange to nowhere for a long time, regardless of under whose administration it began.

    The Interchange was to serve a mall twice-cancelled.

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  9. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2011 at 11:18 PM

    Reagan's Disciple - the MOU that established the project was originally put into the transportation plan by Governor Scott McCallum. Doyle may have allowed it to move forward, but it was originated by the Boy Governor. Good try blaming it on Doyle.

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