Across the street from the lot, Pete Carlson, 32, lives with his wife and three children in a house with a garden and a jungle gym. He remembers the sound of
“There was just nonstop pounding,” Mr. Carlson said as he watered tomato plants. “They were out there all day, every day.”
Mr. Carlson, who works in the city’s wastewater department, is hopeful that plans for the site — he has heard of a retention pond, a walking path, maybe a dog park — will eventually come to fruition.
“We’ve been waiting quite a while,” he said.
Throughout Kenosha, some of the same fears from 1988 have set in again. Will anybody want to move here after the dust settles? How will the economy recover?
“Everything that’s happened this week, it just leaves the city in a state of dismay and worry,” Daniel Serrano, 29, said.
Mr. Serrano, whose father has been patrolling Kenosha’s streets as a National Guardsman, said he believed that the shooting of Mr. Blake was not justified.