The Mount Pleasant Village Board voted on Monday night to approve the redevelopment plan for the Foxconn project area. This plan, previously recommended by the Mount Pleasant Community Development Authority (CDA), gives the CDA the authority to issue double tax-exempt bonds, saving the Village millions of dollars. "The approval of the redevelopment plan is one more sign of progress toward Foxconn's $10 billion, 22-million-square-foot advanced manufacturing campus," said David

With massive construction efforts underway on Phase I of construction on the Foxconn project site, the Racine Journal Times reports that local companies are seeing expanded business opportunities as a result. "The enormity of scale of the project is not easily conveyed," said Adam Jelen, Senior Vice President and Project Principal for M+W | Gilbane. "Crews are currently depositing about 100 to 200 dump truckloads of aggregate, or gravel, daily." This aggregate is coming from

The following statements were issued today regarding the announcement that the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) has received a $160 million Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) Grant to assist in funding construction of the I-94 North-South Freeway Project in Kenosha, Racine and Milwaukee Counties. President David DeGroot, Village of Mount Pleasant: “It is great to see a federal investment of this magnitude. We’ve been hard at work to coordinate the ne

Guelig Waste Removal awarded two contracts Last night, the Village of Mount Pleasant Board voted to award Fond du Lac County-based Guelig Waste Removal And Demolition LLC (Guelig Waste Removal) with the first two contracts to conduct initial demolition work tied to Foxconn’s $10 billion, 22-million-square-foot manufacturing campus. The bid team includes four other Wisconsin-based companies. “We look forward to taking another major step in preparing for construction of Foxconn

Takes action on other Foxconn-related projects Tonight, the Village of Mount Pleasant Board voted to approve a redevelopment plan for the Foxconn Project Area previously recommended by the Mount Pleasant Community Development Authority (CDA). This vote gives the CDA the authority to issue double tax-exempt bonds, saving the Village millions of dollars. “Tonight’s approval of the redevelopment plan is one more sign of progress toward Foxconn’s $10 billion, 22 million square fo