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Some owners near Foxconn plant site say village government misled them while using eminent domain to take properties – Chippewa Valley Post
By Corrinne Hess, Wisconsin Public Radio Some homeowners near the proposed Foxconn facility in the village of Mount Pleasant, near Racine, are decidedly unhappy with the way the village government has used – or misused – its power to take their property for public purposes. In late summer 2017, Cathy and Rodney Jensen started hearing rumors that their Mount Pleasant neighborhood could be changing massively, due to plans for a huge Foxconn flat-screen manufacturing plant that had been announced a month earlier. The Taiwanese company said it was planning a 20-million-square-foot complex and promised 13,000 jobs for the state. The Jensens had owned a home there for more than 20 years, on nearly three acres close to the planned Foxconn development. To continue reading this story, click on the headline.
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