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Oneida County To Consider Kwik-Trip, Highway Plan In April

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The Oneida County board has agreed to hold a special meeting early next month to consider which option to pick regarding fixing the county highway shop or agreeing to a land purchase and building a new facility, or possibly doing nothing.

Tuesday(3/17) the board heard three options from a consultant: one option, priced at $2.8 million would lightly upgrade the current shops, built in 1956. The second option is a more extensive remake of the current facility, priced at $6.3 million dollars. Those two options would mean no purchase of the 12 acres of land by Kwik-Trip from LaCrosse. The firm has made a $2.3 million dollar offer to the county for the current shops. Kwik Trip would develop a store plus look for larger retail partners.

Should the current offer be accepted, the county would look at a new facility off the Highway 8 Bypass, costing $7.3 million dollars after Kwik-Trip's money is factored in.

Option one would give the county 20 more years in the current facility, option 2 would bring about 40 years, and the third option would bring a 70 year life cycle..

Supervisor Alex Young from Rhinelander felt the county would pay less money with the new facility long term..

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".....calculations support(the idea) that the new facility is the best for the taxpayers in the long term. Additionally, I think there are other benefits. A larger site that could potentially offer some future expansion. The energy efficiency. The economic benefits that may come from the location there...."

Also key to Kwik-Trip locating on Rhinelander's west side is the city setting up a district designed to help restore and area called a TIF, or tax incrmental financing district..

A link to the latest presentation about the options is here.

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