As some of you may or may not know, I live in Cudahy. While Cudahy is a great community to call home, it does have its fair share of challenges (as does any city), and one of the challenges we’re facing here in Cudahy is what’s happening at the Packard Plaza shopping center. Once a bustling shopping center, Packard Plaza now sits largely vacant, with some of the businesses that are currently leasing space at Packard Plaza already making plans to leave as well.
While Cudahy’s elected officials have worked to address the problem, a group of citizens have organized an online petition to Leasing Agent Dana Meadowcroft and the Brixmor Corporation, and they’re asking for support.
As you know, Packard Plaza has become an abandoned eyesore on the main street of Cudahy. We, the undersigned, want Brixmor Corporation to live up to their responsibility as a corporate neighbor. We want Brixmor to repair and rehab the crumbling buildings and infrastructure, work with existing tenants to retain their presence in the mall and to actively recruit quality businesses to fill empty stores.
Please consider signing the petition to ask Brixmor Corporation to work harder to provide Cudahy’s residents to rehab Packard Plaza and live up to their responsibility as a corporate citizen here in Cudahy.
Perhaps the city can condemn the property if repairs are not made and auction it off to a responsible owner that could receive tax incentives. As we’ve seen in Eau Claire, this sometimes results in the original owners buying the land back and benefiting from tax incentives or selling the property before condemnation.