Save Jean Klock Park
Our legal challenge is continuing - our fight is not over!
Impacts and Destruction
Herald Palladium, October 7, 2007
'Is it a fair trade?'
By Ann Burch

"The golf course is not going to infringe upon the dunes..."
- Mark Mitchell, Director - Alliance for World Class Communities -
former board member of Harbor Shores Redevelopment Inc.

    In an attempt to demonstrate to potential investors that Harbor Shores is immune
    from the deepening recession, and despite the pending State and Federal lawsuits,
    the developers made their permanent and fatal mark on Jean Klock Park's living
    ecosystem.

    Starting the week of March 2nd, 2009, hundreds of mature trees, the life blood of
    Jean Klock Park's dunes, were yanked out by their roots and destroyed. With a
    butcher shop mentality Harbor Shores moved in and carved up everything in its
    path including enormous areas of parkland outside of the golf course conversion
    areas. The trees and plant life were ground and piled in the parking lot like a tray
    of freshly ground meat.

    The wetland areas were brush-cut, including the area of the endangered rose pink,
    emanated the sickening smell of massive plant-life carnage. Regardless of the
    devastation that has taken place we will continue to fight and are committed to
    reclaiming our public land.


    The Harbor Shores
    Development is a
    Cooporative effort
    between The Alliance for
    World-Class
    Communities,
    (WHIRLPOOL
    Corporation)









    Cornerstone Alliance,
    (WHIRLPOOL
    Corporation)









    the Consortium for
    Community Development,
    (WHIRLPOOL
    Corporation)









    the Whirlpool Foundation,
    (WHIRLPOOL
    Corporation)









    the cities of Benton
    Harbor and St. Joseph,
    Benton Charter
    Township,
    (In alliance with the
    WHIRLPOOL
    Corporation)







    Berrien County, and the

    State of Michigan and
    others.
    (In alliance with the
    WHIRLPOOL
    Corporation)

The developers may be working in dead-set earnest to desecrate JKP to
the point where they might think that we'll walk away. Despite what
has happened to the park we will not give up because -

We Want Our Public Land Back!

CLICK TO TAKE ACTION NOW!!!!!!!!

Friends of Jean Klock Park | PO Box 8988 | Benton Harbor, MI 49023
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