CALEDONIA â Racine County is proposing another possible location for its Youth Development and Care Center, a âstate-of-the-artâ juvenile detention facility, following decisions to place the center in the City of Racine that were not well received by the Common Council and hints in May that the location may be moved.
The second tentative location is the northeast corner of the Batten International Airport, 3239 N. Green Bay Road, along 3 Mile Road in the Village of Caledonia. The facility would rest within a nearly 29-acre parcel that features a large pond and wooded area to act as a ânatural bufferâ between the facility and nearby residential areas.
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YORKVILLE â During his State of the County address Tuesday, Racine County Executive Jonathan Delagrave hinted that the countyâs planned new juvenile detention center may no longer be built along Taylor Avenue in the City of Racine.
The construction of the new center is not controversial among the majority of the countyâs and the City of Racineâs leadership. Thereâs general consensus that the current juvenile justice center â on the fourth floor of the Racine County Dennis Kornwolf Service Center â is a prison for kids and needs to be replaced.
Shown is a digital rendering of Racine County s planned $45 million new juvenile detention center to replace the one on the fourth floor of th…
RACINE â The City of Racine has no real way to prevent Racine County from building a $45 million juvenile detention facility on Taylor Avenue. The county plans to replace the current outdated, nearly windowless Racine County Juvenile Detention Center on the fourth floor of the county human resources center at 1717 Taylor Ave.
Construction of the new facility would be mostly paid for by the state, which has been looking to close larger, troubled facilities rife with abuse with more rehabilitative, small-scale facilities. Racine Countyâs planned âYouth Development and Care Centerâ would only hold up to 48 youths.
Even without a real method of interjection since the county already owns the land necessary â having purchased the long-vacant lumberyard across the street from 1717 Taylor Ave. â and has the funding secured, the fight to stop shovels from hitting the ground remains.
OPINION: Racine site is right for new juvenile center By: Associated Press January 8, 2021
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We were frankly surprised at the sour reaction some Racine City Council members gave the county’s proposal to open a $45 million center for at-risk-youth on or near the site of the old Brannum lumberyard on the city’s south side.
Part of it may have been pique at being left out of the loop.
Ald. John Tate II, president of the City Council, complained that no residents of his district had been made aware that the proposed center is to be built near them not even he: “It’s exceptionally frustrating when the alderman of the area wasn’t told this was coming to the neighborhood.”