Village of Plover, Wisconsin

farmers and property owners on improvements that we can make to the land that address erosion, and water quantity and quality issues. And we’re finding that the public and the property owners are getting very excited about those projects once they learn about them. Now they are lining up and saying, ‘What can we do on our property? Can you help us out?’” Regarding commercial development in Plover, Mahoney points to its partnership with Portage County: “We were always growing strongly from a single-family residential standpoint, but we had limited commercial and limited manufacturing. But, ultimately, between the Village and Portage County, we reached a threshold and that gave us the opportunity to do a couple of very important retail/commercial projects. The first is the Crossroads Commons development. That’s a 160-acre development that is primarily retail in nature. We have some national chains, including Kohl’s, Wal-Mart, and Lowes. And we have a significant number of other developments within that project. It’s been extremely successful, and it continues to evolve. A Jiffy Lube is the most recent project under construction. The current value of the development is about $80 million. We anticipate that when the project is built out, it will have a value of $100 million. It’s been a huge hit from a retail standpoint, not only in Portage County, but the folks from the national chains have been shocked and surprised that the reach of the development is many counties away. It’s become a super-regional attractor, and it’s lit up economic development in all of Portage County. “Our second retail project is called Village Park in Plover. It’s a smaller development geared to unique retailers. We have a car dealership there, Mark Toyota of Plover, which is an anchor in that development. We have many interesting food and drinking establishments located there, as well. There’s a Hampton Inn there; there are craft shops, such as Beyond Ordinary and Antoinette’s Quilt Shop. O’so Brewing, a local