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Article: Cudahy panel backs store plans; Wal-Mart proposal; wins key vote
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 11, 2008
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Cudahy -- After a key member changed his vote, a proposed Wal-
Mart Supercenter won an important, if precarious, step toward
reality Tuesday night, gaining Plan Commission approval of its
conceptual plans.
The move also affects the fate of a proposed Milwaukee Wave
indoor soccer facility.
The site plans failed in a 4-3 vote last month, with
commissioners deadlocked and Mayor Ryan McCue casting the deciding
vote against the project.
On Tuesday, Craig Faucett, a plan commissioner and the city's
director of engineering, changed his previous vote to yes, but only
after insisting that the vote be contingent on the developers coming
up with sufficiently attractive architectural plans.
McCue ...