As an alderman for the district across the street from the large, vacant plot of land on the southwest corner of Nicholson and College Avenues in Oak Creek, I’ve been wondering what’s up there … especially after plans for a new postal facility were put on hold a couple of years ago.
This WISN piece gets to the bottom of it. Sort of.
It calls the postal project “a dead end” and includes comments from Oak Creek Mayor Steve Scaffidi calling for answers.
Scaffidi said the city lost out on the promised jobs and on tax revenue because the Postal Service pays no property taxes.
He wants the post office to either build on the land, which is unlikely, or sell it.
“We’re going to aggressively go after that. We will push the post office to make a decision,” Scaffidi said. “I will say that we will develop that site. Now, what that is? Developers are working on that.”
I’ll keep you posted.
South Milwaukee Blog 
Seriously this would have been an ideal location for the Wal Mart and I had dropped hints as to that a number of times locally. The postal site was not going to be developed as of a couple years ago. The site has absolutely no environmental degradation requiring any remediation, is adjacent to South Milwaukee, Cudahy, and is at the edge of Oak Creek so allows access from each community for retail. It is a credit to South Milwaukee that they have gotten the Wal Mart site so that the tannery pollution and old Buick/ Morisse site clean up done. The Oak Creek / Van Beck site needed no clean up but was at a location even more accessible for area shoppers without having to adversely affect an urban neighborhood. Kudos to South Milwaukee alderpersons who voted the boondoggle in. Meanwhile a primo site at the edge that would not have adversely impacted two cities is left vacant and no taxes collected. What was this all about? Counting coup over our neighbors?
Yes I do understand that we have to a small degree gotten Wal persons to accrue some of the cleanup responsibility and tax revenue once the taxpayer leaching is complete but why do we have to do this at the expense of two of our neighbors and our city at the same time? Come on Eric take a look at the consequences here of the entire project.