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Brownfields Redevelopment Site
Inventory
The three types of brownfields in the City of
Milwaukee are:
Tax-delinquent
Current owners of these sites have not paid their property taxes for one or more
years. Based on at least an initial screening of these properties (including a
historical land use check and a site visit), the City has decided not to
foreclose because of potential environmental contamination. However, the City
(using State Statute 75.106) may begin foreclosure, and then assign the
foreclosure judgment to a new party that will remediate and redevelop the site.
Testing may demonstrate that the site is clean or needs limited environmental
clean-up.
DCD maintains a list of these sites:
If you find a
property of interest on this list, check
Map Milwaukee
for a
map of the area around the property and click on
City of Milwaukee Property Information
to view more information about
the property.
Mothballed
Mothballed sites are privately-owned and underutilized, but are not always tax
delinquent. These may be contaminated based on present and/or historical land
uses. Interested parties should contact the owner of the property directly to
see if the owner is interested in a potential sale. They should also contact the
City to discuss cooperative efforts to address property redevelopment and potential financial incentives.
City-owned
These are sites that the City already owns, and where some level of
environmental assessment has exposed real or perceived environmental concern.
Contact Matt Haessly at 286-5736 to discuss these sites.
Disclaimer
The list shows parcels in the City of
Milwaukee that are property tax delinquent and that the City believes to be "brownfields"
(that is, the City believes the parcels may be adversely affected by
environmental contamination). (See Wisconsin Statute Section 560.13(1)(a),
defining "brownfields" as "abandoned, idle or underused industrial or commercial
facilities or sites, the expansion or redevelopment of which is adversely
affected by actual or perceived environmental contamination").
The list of tax-delinquent brownfield parcels is an ever-changing. Sometimes the
owners pay the delinquencies and the parcels drop, or will drop, from the list.
Sometimes other parcels get added to the list as they go property tax
delinquent. Because this list is ever changing, please double-check all
information provided by contacting Matt Haessly at 286-5736 or Benjamin Timm at
286-5756.
The City of Milwaukee, and its Department of City Development ("DCD") believe
that the data provided within this site is correct. However, no warranty or
guaranty, express or implied, is made with respect to its accuracy. The data, in
any event, is, as indicated, subject to change, and is provided on an "as is"
basis. Verify all data on your own prior to making decisions. The City (and its
departments, including DCD and the Treasurer) are not responsible for: the
content of any site linked through this site; for any inaccuracy or mistake in
this site or in any site linked hereby; for any damage caused by any virus
imported with any file from this site, or from any hyperlinked site.
While the City does not own the parcels on the list, in the right circumstances,
the City can cause title to be transferred to developers who are willing to
improve the parcels. For an explanation of that possibility, read
How to
purchase a tax delinquent brownfield.
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