"mistergee1" Your comment about potential companies sitting on the fence is exactly right. This because the debacle the lefties have made in this state. Job creating industries are no-doubt reluctant to move their business into a state who is condemned with lefties who make it seem like WI wants nothing to do with "big business". You are all so blinded by your own smug beliefs that you fail to realize that a business friendly state WILL bring business's and thus job creation. These corporations will(and have gone!) go where they can conduct business without a bunch of unrealistic hippies harassing them and the governor that is trying to pass favorable laws to bring/keep big business in WI. You may not like corporate tax cuts, but I'm sure you won't like the bleak future this state and country is facing because of the "debacle" people like yourself have created. Your ideals are driving business over seas or to business friendly states. Wake up people!!

I always get a laugh at these stories. Almost every huge industrial building I have ever seen shut down, is sitting there for DECADES. Look at the old Chrysler plant in Kenosha. A good 3/4 of that place has been vacated for two decades. Look at the Motorola plant in Harvard...Vacated a good decade. Look at places like Gary, IN, or Detroit. You have COUNTLESS old industrial buildings, which occupy massive acreage, that have been vacated for decades, and literally just falling to rubble now. No doubt all those places had "ENORMOUS" interest in them to. Heck; I could ride my bike by one of these desolate places. Use my machete to cut away the weeds so I can see the phone number on the "For Lease" sign...Call the # on the sign, blow smoke up someones butt about my grand business plan, and that would qualify is enormous interest.

I find it odd that the savior's most recent campaign bus trip did not include WI. Maybe He did not wish to return to Janesville after He stood in the Janesville GM plant and promised that cars would be built there for many years to come. I find it humorous how Obama has any supporters in Janesville at all after he was effectively running GM for how long and yet despite having total control of GM refused to force the GM plant to reopen.

Is this interest before of after the huge increase in the property value, that was leveled against all businesses in the city? Those prospective companies, large and small, will be looking somewhere else in the State to open up.

Seems that the left might be right....no anouncement or press release from the state of Fitzwalkerstan about the jobs lost, yet there was a lot of hype about the temp jobs. Hmm could it be that we are not truly open for bussiness as told? Couple that with the fact that both fitzgeralds refused to meet wiith the dems at walker's dinner means a thing or two.
Could they be so out of touch with reality as to not realise the whole country is watching this debacle? I think so. Watch out in January, as this might be a different tune.

As you can see, those who bend left have no clue.

Oreally; and thirdly, the GM plant is the property of - wait for it - General Motors. Walker, or anyone else for that matter, is not in a position to put any "tenants" in that facility

Oreally: 1st of all, property is NOT taxed on its value as a business but rather the value of the Real Estate itself. Do you think Menards taxes went down after vacating - if you do you have no idea how the system works. Secondly, its Not Scott Walkers job to "line up" new business - its his job to create a business friendly environment for business to relocate or grow, which he is doing if you'd let him!

Not to belabor the point, but I was amazed to find a whole article that spends a lot of words describing what's not happening in business. Makes me wonder what's not happening in other aspects of the community.

The GM property lost three-quarters of its value after operations shut down. So it really isn't much of an asset to the city as is. It's a ghost. Folks should call Scott Walker and remind him that Wisconsin is open for business. What new tenant does he have lined up for the premises, and when will operations begin?

This article seems to be what business reporting boils down to: not much business. The real news (not available on this website, of course) is that Wisconsin lost 12,500 jobs in July, despite "being open for business." To date, the Walker administration is a failure. It stirred up a hornet's nest in the state while failing to elicit any positive attention.

"Brokers: Interest in Janesville's industrial vacancies strong"
Is this why we are building some more strip malls?

They pay property tax and with that chunk that should be a large enough tax creit to not have to pay Federal tax. I think federal tax is the tax they "don't pay"

Isn't SOME rent better than NONE??? - EXACTLY why last weeks article about 2 strip malls being build made me laugh, a lot of comments were complaining about that we have too many. Now maybe those critics will understand - with 3 or 4 spaces in a parcel, at least 1 or more rented will help pay the mortgage & taxes.

Speaking of partitions, Isn't Hufcor the worldwide leader in that area? Support a local business and toss some work their way!

GM is probably paying property taxes with the money Doyle gave GM to keep jobs here.

I thought those evil corporations didn't pay taxes? We need to sock it to em so they will bring jobs here.

If Helgesen is paying $ 510,000 taxes on a 700,000 square foot building, what is General Motors paying on a 4,000,000 square foot building ? Then of course there is the 12% increase in property values that was reported. Sounds like Janesville should be in pretty good shape.

Maybe "stimulus money" could put in some partition walls.....oh, wait, that would create jobs and "stimulus" was for vote-buying...Silly me.

Anyone ever heard of a partition wall???
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Isn't SOME rent better than NONE???