There was some scuttlebutt recently about ‘For Sale’ signs seen on property owned by Mills Fleet Farm on the corner of Highway 33 and County Road Z. That property was acquired by the new owners of Fleet Farm, New York-based investment firm KKR.In a story posted in May on WashingtonCountyInsider.com, Mike Sidders, marketing director for Fleet Farm in Appleton said there were no plans for the 70-acre parcel. No plans to build a new Fleet and no plans to sell.
The situation got a little quirky last week when ‘For Sale’ signs were reportedly seen by neighbors on the corner of Highway 33 and CTH Z.
Washington County Insider reporter Ruth Marks went to take a photo the next morning and the signs were mysteriously gone.
Employees from the Town of West Bend and Mills Fleet Farm confirmed the signs had been present.
Corporate officials from Fleet Farm did not return calls but realtor Russ Sagmoen of Collier International said a new employee from his sign company did install his signs but on the wrong property.
The signs were incorrectly installed Wednesday. The sign company received a call later that day from the city of West Bend complaining about the location and Sagmoen started receiving calls about the Fleet Farm property.
The Fleet Farm property had been annexed to the city of West Bend. It didn’t take long to determine the signs had been installed on the wrong property.The problem was resolved and the signs were correctly placed early the next morning on the property that is for sale across the street on the southwest corner of Highway 33 and CTH Z, located in the Town of West Bend.
Sagmoen expressed a little surprise at all the drama over an event that was corrected in less than 24 hours.