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LA CROSSE, Wis. U-Haul wants “to blend in with the city, not be against it,” a company official told participants in a virtual meeting Monday night who quizzed his plans for the vacant former Kmart building on the city’s South Side.
Up to 50 residents and city officials tuned in to the Bluffside Neighborhood Association meeting, raising concerns about the appearance, landscaping, lighting, potential traffic, and other issues if U-Haul buys the building at Losey Boulevard and State Road.
The building has been vacant since Kmart closed in 2017, and city officials, neighbors and new owners George Parke and Festival had hoped to find a buyer who would develop it into mixed-use of retail and residential with no takers.
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Something neighbors in the area do not want. But they may not have much of a choice.
People with decades of living experience in La Crosse carry a lot of pride.
“Since 1978,” La Crosse resident Wendy Butler said.
Pride found with a visit to Butler’s home along Heritage Court.
“It is lovely. It is a very nice neighborhood,” Butler said.
Her neighborhood is a short walk’s distance from the old K-Mart store on Losey Boulevard.