{"id":13494,"date":"2024-10-18T13:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13494"},"modified":"2024-10-18T13:10:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:10:20","slug":"buc-ees-in-wisconsin-hinges-on-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13494","title":{"rendered":"Buc-ee\u2019s in Wisconsin Hinges on Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/10\/18\/buc-ees-in-wisconsin-hinges-on-election\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=buc-ees-in-wisconsin-hinges-on-election<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been to Buc-ee\u2019s many times<\/a>. It\u2019s a great place to get gas, a sandwich, a change of clothes, some jerky, and a deer stand. It\u2019s fun. It\u2019s not a place to necessarily get your morning coffee or just a quick fill up. There\u2019s no doubt, however, that it\u2019s a draw. Buc-ee\u2019s are almost always busy. I prefer a Kwik Trip for everyday use.<\/p>\n

This article is annoying because the reporter doesn\u2019t actually do the work to put the various candidates on record on whether or not they would support Buc-ee\u2019s or not. The article says that the future of Buc-ee\u2019s in Wisconsin depends on the outcome, but doesn\u2019t give voters any insight into which candidates favor it and which ones don\u2019t. And I don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessarily a partisan issue. These issues normally come down to local preference and tolerance for corporate welfare.<\/p>\n

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As a result, the proposed Buc-ee\u2019s plan\u00a0includes a $15 million upgrade<\/a>\u00a0to the Interstate 39\/90\/94 interchange. Without it, the convenience store is likely to cause traffic to back up onto the interstate, he said.<\/p>\n

Buc-ee\u2019s plans to reimburse 47% of the cost of the interchange project, Chang said, leaving local officials to figure out the rest. In June, he told the Journal Sentinel that the village was brainstorming ways to foot the bill, such as a tax improvement district.<\/p>\n

Now, Chang said the village is waiting to see who wins multiple local and state government seats in the Nov. 5 election: Dane County executive, State Assembly District 42 and State Senate District 14.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe anticipate that we\u2019ll need some political help with the interchange project \u2026,\u201d Chang said. \u201cI hate to make it an issue about elections, but we really are just waiting to see who\u2019s going to help us because we definitely can\u2019t do it ourselves, and we know that the impacts are far-reaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Buc-ee\u2019s owns the DeForest land and plans to build a 74,000-square-foot store with 120 gas pumps and 20 electric vehicle charging stations. This rivals the brand\u2019s biggest store, a 74,707-square-foot\u00a0one in Sevierville, Tenn.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The entire Buc-ee\u2019s project is estimated to cost $50 million, Chang said. The store is expected to bring in $25 million in gross taxable sales per year, including $1 million annually in sales tax revenue for the state. The store will create between 200 and 225 jobs, he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/10\/18\/buc-ees-in-wisconsin-hinges-on-election\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=buc-ees-in-wisconsin-hinges-on-election I\u2019ve been to Buc-ee\u2019s many times. It\u2019s a great…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13495,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13494\/revisions\/13495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}