Raccoons, squirrels force delay of Milwaukee business opening Building’s deteriorating condition forces entrepreneur to postpone June opening of package security business

FRONT END. A MILWAUKEE MAN TRYING TO START HIS OWN BUSINESS SAYS HE’S BEING DELAYED IN PART BY RACCOONS AND BY SQUIRRELS. HE TELLS 12 NEWS NICK BOHR HE IS NOT ABLE TO OPEN HIS BUSINESS RECEIVING PACKAGES UNTIL HIS LANDLORD FIXES THE ROOF AND THE SIDING. AND AFTER MONTHS OF TRYING, HE’S GETTING NOWHERE. AT NIGHT, YOU CAN LITERALLY SEE THE RACCOONS PLANNING FOR LORENZO BROWN RENTING THIS HUMBLE COMMERCIAL BUILDING AT 47TH AND MILL TO OPEN A BUSINESS WAS A DREAM COME TRUE. MY VISION FOR THIS BUILDING IS TO HAVE A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE NO LONGER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEIR PACKAGES BEING STOLEN. SO WHEN YOU COME IN, HE HAS A BUSINESS MODEL. A LOBBY, COUNTER AND PERMIT. WHAT HE ALSO HAS IS RACCOONS AND SQUIRRELS AND RESIDENTS. THERE’S A SQUIRREL RIGHT THERE JUST COMING OUT OF THERE. HE SHARED VIDEO OF A RACCOON AND ITS OFFSPRING GETTING UP UNDERNEATH THE ROOF THROUGH GAPING HOLES THAT CAN CLEARLY BE SEEN FROM THE GROUND. I WANTED TO OPEN UP THIS YEAR IN JUNE, BUT BUT DUE TO THE THE TO THE PROBLEMS THAT I’M HAVING ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING WITH, AS YOU CAN TELL, WITH RACCOONS AND THINGS COMING IN AND OUT OF THE BUILDING. I CAN’T OPEN UP THE BUILDING BECAUSE I DON’T WANT NO ONE TO GET BIT BY A RACCOON OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF THE HOLES IN THE SIDING AND POSSIBLY IN THE ROOF WHEN IT RAINS, LIKE TODAY, WATER LEAKS INSIDE, SOMETIMES DOWN OR INSIDE THE WALL HERE, COLLECTING IN POCKETS UNDER THE PAINT LIKE THIS ONE. YOU SEE WHAT’S GOING ON? 12 NEWS REACHED OUT TO THE LANDLORD, WHO SAID BROWN HAD AGREED TO FIX THE EXTERIOR IN HIS LEASE. THE BROWN PROVIDED THE DOCUMENT, THOUGH, TO 12 NEWS FOR REVIEW, AND IT MAKES NO SUCH MENTION. THIS LANDLORD PROMISED TO LOOK INTO IT, BUT THE ASPIRING BUSINESSMAN DOESN’T KNOW HOW LONG HE CAN WAIT. AND I’M ASKING HIM, PLEADING AND BEGGING FOR THEM TO COME AND DO THIS SO I CAN START MY BUSINESS. OPEN UP MY BUSINESS. IN JUNE 1ST. NO, NO. RESPOND. NOTHING. AND I DON’T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO. HIS SIGN OUT FRONT STARTING TO FEEL LESS LIKE A PROMISE AND MORE LIKE A WISH. AT 47TH AND WEST MILL ROAD, NICK BOHR, WISN 12 NEWS. BROWN FILED A COMPLAINT WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES. AN INSPECTOR WROTE HE FOUND NO VIOLATIONS AFTER BEING CONTACTED. CONTACTED BY