I live hear in Wisconsin. I tend to side with the big box stores. Lots of empty space around that indicates their store properties are not that valuable on the open market. As for the municipalities, they are in way too many things that they should not be into. Like running the electric and gas utilities, water utilities etc. Civic centers and so called industrial parks that turn them into real estate developers. Scores of government employees trying to attract businesses by handing out freebies to companies that would have come to their town anyway. Stick to doing street repair and snowplowing and quit your bitching.