<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3JVKIq_0nCETdDE00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3JVKIq_0nCETdDE00" width="1662" height="1247" > MARINETTE —The Plan Commission approved the boundaries for Tax Incremental District 19 on Tuesday, bringing 30 to 36 apartment units to Marinette, with updates to Daggett Street Park and possible office space. The project will generate $8.5 million in new development value for the city and cost $2.4 million, with $1.6 in developer incentives. The updates to Daggett Street Park are estimated at $455,000, according to the project plan. <nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> The latest approval makes for five TID developments this year in Marinette. A TID is created to incentivize developers to build in an area they otherwise wouldn’t with Tax Increment Financing. Property taxes are frozen in the area, and any increase or “increment” over that frozen number pays for the project. After discussion, the commission agreed to add improvements to Daggett Street, Pierce Avenue and Parnell Street into the project plan. “Pierce Avenue is going to see a huge uptick in the future,” said Alderwoman Liz Mikutowski, who is not on the commission but spoke at the public comment portion of the hearing. “I would hope the Plan Commission would consider that.” Alderman Doug Oitzinger, who isn’t on the commission, also spoke at public comment. <nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> “If we’re going to increase the number of residents and vehicles that are going to be in this area and we are always short of money, that the TID district should consider making expenditures on Pierce Avenue, possibly Parnell Street as well,” Oitzinger said. The project plan had street improvements built into the project, including but not limited to road excavation or things like the installation of sidewalks and bicycle lanes. However, Mayor Steve Genisot mentioned after the meeting that the city would not be able to fund an entire road pavement, as the tax increment does not support that. “We can add whatever you want,” said City Engineer Brian Miller, speaking later in the meeting to the committee. “If the improvements are paving the road, that’s one thing. If we’re talking about something else, I don’t know what that would be, so we’d have to do some investigating.” <nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> City Alderman and Commission Member Jeff Skorik said the improvements could include checking for crosswalks, American Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance, corners and if any construction is needed. The location of the apartment complex would stand on the old knitting mill property on Pierce Avenue, but TID 19 would encompass more area than that. The 8-acre district would stretch from Pierce Avenue on the west, Wells Street and Daggett Street on the east, Parnell Street in the north and clips off shortly before Cleveland Avenue in the south. D.A. Boomer Developments LLC plans to construct two apartment buildings between 15 and 18 units each. The apartments will be one- and two-bedroom units with attached garages at market rate, according to a published EagleHerald article. <nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> The project will go in phases, with the first apartment building going up this year and the second apartment building going up next year, according to the article. Genisot said the commercial development would be “most likely office space” and would encompass the third phase of construction, which would happen in year three. The mayor mentioned a walkway or paved path from the Civic Center to the TID 19 area during the meeting. However, he said the project plan hadn’t yet defined the park’s improvements. “Certainly, we haven’t defined exactly what the Daggett Park improvements are, but we’ve been challenged by this council to fund all the improvements,” Genisot said. “We felt this was a good opportunity to help make improvements there.” <nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> He said there’s a placeholder to put a parking lot on the property for the park, but it’s just that—a placeholder. “This is a plan. It can all change completely,” said Joe Ehlers, senior municipal advisor from Ehlers Public Finance Advisors, who presented the project plan. “This isn’t an obligation to any of the improvements or other development. Whatever happens in the park or the development is purely up to further review and approval by the plan commission and the council as necessary.” Oitzinger said the contamination on the property could significantly change the project timeline. He said the property is under citation from the Department of Natural Resources. “You can’t start digging up and laying foundations in 2023 if you haven’t gotten an approved cleanup plan and done the cleanup,” Oitzinger said. “The plan is a document that does not reflect that reality right now: the knitting mill property is not in a condition where construction on the property could begin.” <nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> In a Phase II Environmental Site Assessment Report of the former knitting mill property, compiled by Ayers Associates in December 2019 for the Bay-Lake Regional Planning Commission as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Brownfield Assessment Grant, the group found arsenic, barium, cadmium, lead, silver and benzene detected in one or more soil samples at concentrations that exceeded the groundwater pathway residual contaminant levels. The recommendations in the report stated that “If residential use is proposed and redeveloped for that purpose, the isolated area of soil containing barium and lead at concentrations above residential direct contact residual contaminant levels, once delineated, should be appropriately mitigated or managed to eliminate the direct contact pathway.” Genisot said after the meeting that the area they will start building the apartments on doesn’t have known contamination, to his knowledge. The creation of the TID would be able to move forward, with the developer pursuing remediation in the future. “That all has to be done with the developer and governing agencies,” he said. “That really is not a factor for the TID at all.” He said the developers will take care of the cleanup efforts that are needed. The city has been aware of possible contamination since 2018. “We knew this for the last several years since the fire,” Genisot said. <nbtemplate data-content="eyJhcGlLZXkiOiAiZDgxM2Q5Yzg3NTI3N2IzNWU0YzRmZDM0NTAyMjJkNmQiLCAiZGVzY3JpcHRpb24iOiAiU3Vic2NyaWJlIHRvICBFYWdsZSBIZXJhbGQiLCAiZXZlbnQiOiAibXBfc3Vic2NyaXB0aW9uX2J1dHRvbl9jbGlja19ldmVudCIsICJ1cmwiOiAiaHR0cHM6Ly9hcGcwNi5uZXd6d2FyZS5jb20vc3M3MHYyL2FkYW1zL2NvbW1vbi90ZW1wbGF0ZS5qc3A_aW5pdD1zdGFydCZpbml0RWRpdGlvbj1NRUgmcnBhZ2U9aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZWhleHRyYS5jb20vIiwgIm1lZGlhSWQiOiAxNTkzNzI1LCAidGl0bGUiOiAiTW9yZSBhcGFydG1lbnRzIGluIE1hcmluZXR0ZSwgd2l0aCBEYWdnZXR0IFN0cmVldCBQYXJrIGltcHJvdmVtZW50cyJ9" data-id="MediaPlatformAmplitudeButton"></nbtemplate></div></body>

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MARINETTE —The Plan Commission approved the boundaries for Tax Incremental District 19 on Tuesday, bringing 30 to 36 apartment units to Marinette, with updates to Daggett Street Park and possible office space.
                The project will generate $8.5 million in new development value for the city and cost $2.4 million, with $1.6 in developer incentives. The updates to Daggett Street Park are estimated at $455,000, according to the project plan.
                The...