While Foxconn slows its hiring and recruitment, and has already publicly said its Racine County projects initial phase will shrink, local taxpayers are already being dunned another $!50 million for the sprawl inflicted on them.
You can't make this stuff up, though apparently Team Walker did:
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Perfectly good Mount Pleasant farmland in the bulldozers' sights, 2017 |
In the summer of 2017, Racine County and Mount Pleasant officials estimated it would cost them $763 million to execute the Foxconn Technology Group development. The new estimate is about $912 million, according to numbers provided by the village and county.