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Holiday Inn Comes Back to Oconomowoc. And some kind of industrial building, Trust us, it’ll be nice.

So that’s what $24 Million buys you? A Holiday Inn derivative and some-kind of industrial complex, maybe? Where is our Super Mall? Where is our fantastic shrine to capitalism? Where are the world-class amenities and municipal infrastructure? What about publicly accessible green spaces and smart and well designed, pedestrian friendly shopping and lifestyle spaces? Where are the golden “Welcome to Pabst Farms” signs?

Oh, wait… We have the golden signs? Well then. Carry on.

We can’t help but wonder what our friends at UrbanMilwaukee.com think about adding _yet even more_ hotel capacity to a community of 12,000 people.

(Historical note: Local historians will snidely note that the Olympia Resort and Conference Center was at one time, branded as a Holiday Inn. They will then go back to indexing their post card collection.)

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2 Responses to “Holiday Inn Comes Back to Oconomowoc. And some kind of industrial building, Trust us, it’ll be nice.”

  1. Dave Reid Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 9:22 pm

    Well I’ve felt for a log time that Pabst Farms is just yet another example of sprawl and that it would never be any sort of New Urbanist development. And well clearly it won’t.

    PS (thanks for the reference and I assume you saw the great article by Jeramey on UM)

  2. MC Pickard Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 6:19 pm

    The Pabst Farms development is just, well, not inviting to anyone. It’s separated from the community at large, and cloistered by highways. There is no connection for foot or bike traffic either.

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