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Article: Debate in Cudahy heats up over demolition of Sportsites' Iceport
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- Daily Reporter (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 18, 2009
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Sportsites LLC is ready for a fight if Cudahy forces the company
to pay for the demolition of its Iceport's steel skeleton and cement
foundation.
Cudahy on Monday opened bids to demolish the rusting structure of
what was to be an ice rink. The city asked contractors to submit two
prices -- one for demolishing just the iron I-beam skeleton and a
second, higher quote that includes demolishing the foundation.
A judge in January 2007 gave Cudahy the right to clear dangerous
public nuisances from the property, but the Iceport's foundation
does not qualify, said Brad Hoeschen, Sportsites' attorney with
Greenberg & Hoeschen LLC, Milwaukee.
"They would have a rather difficult hurdle to climb to ...