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{{Infobox building
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| name = State Street Center
| image = File:State Street Center, Racine, Wisconsin, 2011.JPG
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| location = 1500-1520 [[State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|State Street]]<br/>[[Racine, Wisconsin|Racine]], [[Wisconsin]]
| start_date = June 4, 2003
| opening_date = November 2003
| closing_date =
| demolition_date =
| owner = Aum Sai Shiv LLC
| developer = [[Big Bend Development (Brookfield, Wisconsin)|Big Bend Development]]
}}
'''State Street Center''' is a shopping center in [[Racine, Wisconsin]], located on the northeast corner of [[State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|State Street]] and [[Memorial Drive (Racine, Wisconsin)|North Memorial Drive]]. The center is anchored by [[Save-A-Lot 881|Save-A-Lot #881]] at 1500 State Street, and the other end is occupied by [[McDonald's 26253|McDonald's #26253]] at 1520 State Street, and four small retail spaces are between the two. The development opened in 2003, and replaced an inner-city commercial block that was declared blighted and demolished to build the center.
==History==
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The block surrounded by [[Memorial Drive (Racine, Wisconsin)|North Memorial Drive]] on the west, [[State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|State Street]] on the south, the [[Union Pacific Kenosha Subdivision]] railroad line on the east, and [[May Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|May Street]] on the north was home to several commercial buildings, including [[1420 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1420]], [[1432 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1432]], [[1434 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1434]], [[1436 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1436]], [[1500 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1500]], [[1504 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1504]], [[1506 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1506]], [[1508 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1508]], [[1510 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1510]], [[1512 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1512]], [[1514 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1514]], [[1518 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1518]], [[1520 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1520]], and [[1522 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1522 State Street]]. By 2000, many of these buildings were vacant and the city of Racine considered the block an example of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_blight urban blight]. After [[1000 Marquette Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|Marquette Food & Liquor]] a few blocks away was destroyed by fire in July 1999, the inner city of Racine was left without a grocery store. City leaders pushed for the blighted block to be razed and a grocery store to be built in its place.
[[Supervalu]] proposed building a [[Save-
By October 2001, no other proposals had been made for a grocery store at the site, and the city agreed to begin negotiating a development contract with [[Big Bend Development (Brookfield, Wisconsin)|Big Bend Development]].<ref>Buttweiler, Joe. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50374053/the-journal-times/ "Aldermen raise questions on central-city grocery store proposal"], [[Racine Journal Times]], October 5, 2001, front page.</ref><ref>Buttweiler, Joe. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50383342/the-journal-times/ "Save-A-Lot moves one step forward"], [[Racine Journal Times]], October 9, 2001, page 1C and [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50383541/the-journal-times/ 3C].</ref> Labor organizers continued to criticize the proposal, especially the city of Racine's plan to finance the demolition and redevelopment at a cost of $1.34 million, arguing that public funding should not be used to establish a business opposed to union organization.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50385696/the-journal-times/ "Grocery, security concerns go to council"], [[Racine Journal Times]], October 17, 2001, page 1C.</ref> Despite the controversy, the city council agreed to the plan on December 4, 2001, with the goal of razing the buildings and transferring the property by the following October and allowing the store to open in spring 2003.<ref>Laehr Tenuta, Marci. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50392888/the-journal-times/ "Accord clears way for grocery store"], [[Racine Journal Times]], December 5, 2001, front page and page [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50393182/the-journal-times/ 11A].</ref>
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After some delays, all residents and businesses in the 1500 block of State Street were evicted by the end of November 2002, including [[1500 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|Rondone's Liquor]] and [[1436 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|Nu Vu Trendsetters]].<ref>Block, Dustin. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50394653/the-journal-times/ "Central-city grocery plan displeases some"], [[Racine Journal Times]], November 25, 2002, front page.</ref> The city council gave its final approval for the demolition plan on November 27.<ref>Block, Dustin. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50395401/the-journal-times/ "Plans for central-city grocery get nod from commission"], [[Racine Journal Times]], November 29, 2002, page 1C.</ref> The last building remaining on the block, [[1522 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1522 State Street]], was torn down on February 6, 2003.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50395656/the-journal-times/ "Demolition Day"], [[Racine Journal Times]], February 7, 2003, page 1C.</ref>
A groundbreaking ceremony for State Street Center was held on June 4, 2003.<ref name=persistence>Burke, Michael. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50371472/the-journal-times/ "Persistence, patience pay off"], [[Racine Journal Times]], June 5, 2003, page 1B.</ref> The [[International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers]] picketed at the construction site in October after the developers hired non-union electricians from Milwaukee, arguing that the decision deprived their members of work at a time when one-fourth of Racine's union electricians were unemployed.<ref>Rendon, Guadalupe. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50403672/the-journal-times/ "Unemployed electricians protest nonunion workers"], [[Racine Journal Times]], October 7, 2003, page 1B and [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50404035/the-journal-times/ 3B].</ref> [[McDonald's 26253|McDonald's restaurant #26253]], the chain's seventh location in Racine, opened in the shopping center in November 2003.<ref>Golub, Rob. [https://journaltimes.com/news/local/the-golden-arches-come-to-state-street-finally/article_e72d5804-2d26-58f2-8baa-2e5a3b9d3d4b.html "The golden arches come to State Street, finally"], [[Racine Journal Times]], November 21, 2003.</ref> [[Save-A-Lot 881|Save-A-Lot #881]], the {{convert|12000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} primary anchor of the shopping center, opened at 7 a.m. on December 11, 2003.<ref>Burke, Michael. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50403234/the-journal-times/ "At the center of it all"], [[Racine Journal Times]], December 11, 2003, front page and page [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50403529/the-journal-times/ 9A].</ref>
A [[JJ Fish & Chicken]] carryout restaurant opened in the space next to McDonald's on May 10, 2004.<ref>Burke, Mick. [https://journaltimes.com/news/local/new-eatery-comes-to-redeveloping-area/article_480d4758-a355-5341-9989-f6bf6913b63f.html "New eatery comes to redeveloping area"], [[Racine Journal Times]], May 10, 2004.</ref>
Deli Station, a "traditional Jewish-European" delicatessen, opened in the former JJ Fish & Chicken space in February 2009, run by a cousin of the building's owners who offered the business a discount on rent.<ref>Burke, Michael. [https://journaltimes.com/news/local/from-special-forces-to-corned-beef-on-rye/article_bf6d9002-5188-5e63-b466-ce9bf7662506.html "From Special Forces to corned beef on rye"], [[Racine Journal Times]], March 4, 2009.</ref> Sales at the deli were consistently low and the operator claimed that the federal minimum wage increase of July 2009 made the business less profitable.<ref>Brien, Stephanie. [https://journaltimes.com/news/local/minimum-wage-goes-up-friday/article_1c58f632-f010-57b6-9b4f-56a3eef47923.html "Minimum wage goes up Friday"], [[Racine Journal Times]], July 22, 2009.</ref> Deli Station closed in January 2010.<ref name=deli-closed>[https://journaltimes.com/news/local/article_3c18dbd4-0d2b-11df-b690-001cc4c002e0.html "Deli Station closed"], [[Racine Journal Times]], January 29, 2010.</ref> Great Wall, a local Chinese restaurant, moved into the former Deli Station space, opening on January 18, 2011.<ref>[https://journaltimes.com/news/opinion/glad-you-asked/glad-you-asked-i--weigh-station-coyote-ridge-golf/article_f3a7cf44-2495-11e0-b7d7-001cc4c002e0.html "GLAD YOU ASKED: I-94 weigh station; Coyote Ridge golf course; Great Wall chinese restaurant"], [[Racine Journal Times]], January 20, 2011.</ref>
The shopping center was sold to Aum Sai Shiv LLC of [[Hoffman Estates, Illinois]] in 2016, for $3,985,000.<ref>Burke, Michael. [https://journaltimes.com/business/local/save-a-lot-center-sold-for-about-million/article_d6b97fde-0740-52c5-beee-6e9ebf97893e.html "Save-A-Lot center sold for about $4 million"], [[Racine Journal Times]], June 9, 2016.</ref>
==Tenants==
===1500 State Street===
*[[Save-A-Lot 881|Save-A-Lot #881]], opened December 11, 2003
===1504 State Street===
*Liberty Tax Service
===1508-12 State Street===
*Young Beauty Mart<ref name=deli-closed/>
===1516 State Street===
*[[JJ Fish & Chicken]], opened May 10, 2004, closed by 2009
*Deli Station, opened February 2009, closed January 2010
*Great Wall, opened January 18, 2011
*''Space incorporated into McDonald's in 2018''
===1520 State Street===
*[[McDonald's 26253|McDonald's #26253]], opened November 2003
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Buildings on State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)]]
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