Mike’s Service Center – Superior Street
This place has been an eyesore for years now. It stumps me that the City doesn’t make him clean it up. My guess is that he is on a government board of some type or something like that. I would also guess that he is allowed to leave his “junk” sitting there because he has a car dealers license. This is just ridiculous to me. Even if he would move his cars around and pull out the weeds, it would help. The Antigo Police has threatened local residents to remove cars and trucks on their property that are not registered, or they will be fined, so how is this any different? I think something should be done about it – maybe he needs to get fined from the City! It makes Antigo look bad.
UPDATE
The excerpt below is from the Minutes of the following City Committee – This is a joke – Bill Brandt being commended for the progress being made at the Schilcher property on Superior Street – What progress? Looks like the same junkyard that it has for years? -
City of Antigo
Finance, Personnel & Legislative Committe Meeting
June 20, 2007
15. Any Other Matters (No action may be taken on the items discussed)
Alderperson Balcerzak identified the residents at 234 Superior Street have been holding a perpetual yard sale and have several items on the boulevard every day. To which Chief Brandt advised he would have his department take care of it. Alderperson Balcerzak also commended Chief Brandt on the progress being made with the Schilcher property on Superior Street.
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Ummm..Maybe you should check your addresses. 234 Superior St is not Mikes Service Center, it’s a house that was having a constant rummage sale. If you drive past Mikes enough to notice the junk, then you would have noticed the rummage sale.
I think if you read the excerpt from the minutes of the meeting again, I believe there are 2 different things being discussed here – the yard sale and Mike’s Service center. The 234 Superior Street address is not Mike’s Service Center, I agree with that, but, when they refer to the “Schilcher property”, I believe they are referring to Mike’s. The owner of Mike’s Service Center is Mike Schilcher.
I have to agree here. Why is it home owners are threatened with fines if they don’t clean up their yards but yet Mike Shilcher can get away with his business looking like this. Imagine what the people going through this town think when they see that. And this is on one of our main roadways into this town!!!
MIKE”S SERVICE CENTER, Yes, the station and grounds are an eye sore! Yes, the cars have been Moved around and the weeds have been pulled and flowers were planted, in the past. Did that help the eye sore, NO! Mike Schilcher, is a Kind man and Allowed the people of the city and area to CHARGE for the work he performed and pay when they could. The Main reason the junk is still there is the people have not Paid their Bill. Yes mike has been fined for the junk more then twice, most of the junk was removed, but it regrew. To help Mike schilcher and his business, get the people to pay their “BILLs” this would help.
The primary reason why this is allowed to continue by the city is that the property, for some reason that predates me, is zoned industrial. This fact, in addition to the reasons listed here (that Mr. Schilcher cannot move some of the cars because he doesn’t own them, and that he does claim that he is doing legitimate business at the location dealing in cars/parts/etc) accounts for why he has not been forced to clean the area up. The only way to really deal with it would be to force him to sell to the city (known as eminent domain), but this is something the city avoids if at all possible because of its negative political ramifications.
mr. schilcher can rid himself of these vehicles if he tried. i know this for a fact because it happened to me somewhere when i did not pay for my vehicle to be serviced they had it towed and it became the responsibility of the tower after so long. i did not care for the car wasnt worth sticking alot of money into at that time. and i had a new car within a few weeks after. this place was a junk or salvage yard i believe by pewaukee or some place with a similar name.
He can file a mechanic’s lien on these vehicles so that he can dispose or resell them to recoup his money for those who have not paid.
look at some of the places that are for rent that has a slum landlord then then also not just at the bissness
Another eyesore is the Cutlass. I believe 900 block of Superior might be just outside the city limits. Tthe place is looking condemed. Its sort of sad how it used to be one of the finest places to stay in Antigo..
try going to the council meeting or quit your whining. i dont see very many people there. not as many as i see pissing and moaning all the time!
I heard that the Cutlass has a new owner who is doing extensive renovations on the place. When I drive by I do see activity going on. Maybe they will get it up and running again. Does anyone know what the story is on this?
The cutlass was bought by radar roy (of the radar base on HH). He has been doing wk on it to try and get it reopened.
This whole town is an eyesore, why do the big trucks amd out of towners speed through downtown everyday and not get picked up. Are we waiting for a tragic accident