By Jennifer Eisenbart
Editor
A planned retail development on the edge of the current Pick ‘n Save property at 980 Milwaukee Ave. moved forward Tuesday night.
The City of Burlington Plan Commission approved a certified survey map for the site, which will be a small business development on currently undeveloped land on the edge of the Pick ‘n Save lot near Milwaukee Avenue.
Leslie Scherrer Pella of The Peter Scherrer Group said that there are tenants who want that specific location, which is why those tenants are not pursuing downtown Burlington space. However, she cannot disclose who the potential tenants are at this point.
Scherrer Pella said after the meeting that the clients coming are in no way controversial, but don’t want publicity before their move-in. However, she did add that the individual stores will have to be approved by the city for their individual site plans.
Even Plan Commission members were seeking Scherrer Pella out after the meeting to try and find out the tenants, to which she admitted some frustration and simply replied, “Nothing I can disclose at this time.”
Other action
The commission also approved a site plan application for Nicole Gilbreath to turn a site at 940 S. Pine St. into an emergency survival products and water filter store.
The store, which will be called “SHTFandGO,” will have to fulfill conditions set forth by the new city planner, Mark Roffers, and has plans to open by May 1.
The commission also approved an extraterritorial certified survey map for land on Franklin Street in the Town of Burlington. All land divisions within a mile and a half of the city have to be approved by both the city and Racine County.
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“However, she cannot disclose who the potential tenants are at this point.” My Dad used to call this type of deal “Buying a pig in a poke.”
Let me get this straight. The city has OKed building additional retail space despite the fact that we have empty retail space aplenty based on the promise that it might have immediate occupancy by clients who “are in no way controversial” based solely on the word of the developer.
I would have thought that by now this “if you build it, they will come” philosophy might have woke some folks up to the fact that it hasn’t worked. Now we have a “they might come if you build it but there is no guarantee and you may not want them after you find out who they are but then its too late because you have all ready built it”
Good job guys.