City of Milwaukee Cleaning Up Its Act -
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Published on: 1/1/2004
Last Visited: 11/13/2006
However, Benjamin Timm, Senior Environmental Project Coordinator for Milwaukee DCD, says that while the contamination is real, the language used in the grant reflects the EPA's standards for determining "direct contact threat" which may not reflect the likelihood of someone actually becoming ill from the contamination.
The property is currently owned by a mysterious "Humboldt Properties Inc."of Chicago.Due to the owner's tax delinquency for over a decade, the city is foreclosing on it.This will create a "clean title" and forgive the more than $250,000 in back taxes so that a new owner can build anew.
Timm says that the city will send out a request for proposals to redevelop this property once the city has achieved ownership, sometime in the next few months.