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Wisconsin residents outraged over Foxconn upheaval
Families were forced out of Mount Pleasant for a huge high-tech plant, but three years later it still has not been built
By Tom Perkins / The Guardian, MOUNT PLEASANT, Wisconsin
When Sean McFarlane recently returned to the site where his lifelong home was demolished, he found in its place a retention pond and hundreds of geese perched on a hill.
The quiet scene came as a shock. The Wisconsin village of Mount Pleasant had effectively forced him, his girlfriend and four children from their home in 2017 to make way for a proposed high-tech plant owned by Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn, a plant that US President Donald Trump had said would soon be the “eighth wonder of the world.”
the drama has homeowners furious too. this is prairie view drive. this road used to lead into an entire neighborhood of houses. foxconn s building, they ve been cleared out and the residents are now asking, was it worth it? kim mahoney is one of them. she built her custom home in this subdivision with a dozen neighbors. the whole process has been somewhat of a nightmare. mahoney is at the last house standing. her neighbors took offers to move out and raze their homes. she received a low-ball appraisal so stood her ground. i think this whole project was a scam. i don t trust anything our president says. he is not looking out for the residents of mount pleasant. he s looking out for himself. nbc news requested interviews with foxconn and the village of mount pleasant. both declined. in a statement, foxconn says it s pouring a concrete foundation. it s thrilled to be moving into the next stages of construction. the company says it looks
spend close to $900 million in land acquisition and infrastructure. that s 38 times our annual budget. the town s credit rating has been downgraded because of that. fox con has also changed the scale of the project telling reuters it s too expensive to make tv screens in the u.s. then they said it was going to be a technology hub, and then they said it was going to be an ai institute. reporter: the drama has homeowners furious too. this is prairie view drive and this road used to lead into an entire neighborhood of houses. foxconn has cleared out. the residents are asking was it worth it. . kim mahoney is one of them. she built her home this this subdivision with a dozen neighbors. mahoney s is the last house standing, her neighbors took offers to move out and raise their homes. she says she received a lowball
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