MONDAY: Special Meeting Tonight on Parkland Mall Proposal

MUSKEGO - The Muskego Plan Commission is holding a special meeting at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 23, as they take up the issue of a proposal to redevelop the former Parkland Mall property.

According to a report by Muskego NOW, the project proposes three four-story buildings, a grocery store and three smaller retail buildings. The project is called the Parkland Towne Center.

Muskego NOW also reported last week that aldermen gave their positions on the proposal: Five were in favor of the plan for Janesville Road between Lannon and Parkland drives, but six are needed for the project's rezoning. You can read that article here.

Parkland Mall was built in the early 1970s by developer Raich-Lawent. A document, which can only be described as an invitation to businesses to lease space in the mall, listed the size of the mall at 148,000 square feet, although other documents would state 154,000 as its footprint. Jerome Drugs had already occupied a building on that site, and the mall was built around it.

It was demolished in the late 1990s and the roughly 10.7 acre property is now the subject of debate over which type of development - if any - should go there.