The long-discussed postal facility planned for the southwest corner of Pennsylvania and College Avenues may be “dead,” as the postal service continues to close facilities nationwide, according to BizTimes.com.
Check out the column here. From it:
The declining use of postal mail and the closures of many local postal offices could also signal the demise of a proposed new 820,000-square-foot mail center on 64 acres of vacant land at the southwest corner of College Avenue and Pennsylvania Road in Oak Creek. The new facility was proposed in 2008 with plans to replace the distribution center and mail processing facility at 345 W. St. Paul Ave. in downtown Milwaukee and a warehouse on South Second Street in Milwaukee.
The Oak Creek site is a prime real estate parcel at the city’s borders with South Milwaukee and Cudahy. The site also is near General Mitchell International Airport.
However, the project has been delayed indefinitely since the Great Recession began.
One postal official told BizTimes he believed the Oak Creek project is dead, but he had no official declaration.
Another Postal Service spokesman, James Mruk, said in an e-mail to BizTimes today, “Right now the Postal Service has more facilities, equipment, workroom floor space and staffing than it needs to handle our current volume of mail and retail lobby transactions. We expect this trend to continue in the near future. We still own the property in Oak Creek, WI, but have not made a decision regarding how we plan to use in the future.”
The last I heard about this project a few weeks ago was it is still on hold. I will keep you posted.
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