2024 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 22:57:10 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Community Within the Corridor tenants receive 25K in settlement with developers, " Milwaukee, Wisconsin
 
Community Within the Corridor tenants receive 25K in settlement with developers

A judge approved the settlement Tuesday


By Emily Pofahl  
WISN TV-12 News (Milwaukee, WI)
January 4, 2024

MILWAUKEE  - A Milwaukee County judge approved a settlement Tuesday giving former tenants at Community Within the Corridor $25,000 for the inconvenience of being displaced, according to the tenants' attorney. 

Health officials said they found high levels of a toxic chemical at the Community Within the Corridor building near 32nd and Center, in March 2023. Experts detected toxic levels of a cancer-causing chemical called Trichloroethylene, or TCE, inside. 

People living in 21 of the 58 units evacuated filed a class action lawsuit against the developers. The lawsuit alleges the developers ignored warnings from the state when they allowed people to move in.

…

For the entire article, see
https://www.wisn.com/article/community-within-the-corridor-tenants-receive-25k-in-settlement-with-developers/46291089#

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Lenny Siegel
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