East Troy apartment community upset about possible pet food plant planned across Highway 120

Hundreds of people live at the Honey Creek Apartments at the edge of East Troy along Highway 120. A pet food plant could become their new neighbor, which has become cause for concern. An unnamed company revealed a proposal for a 187,000-square-foot pet food processing and distribution facility on Highway 120 just south of Interstate 43 during East Troy's Plan Commission meeting this month.The site is directly across Highway 120 from the Honey Creek Apartments. "I really have to ask: what the hell are you thinking?" Honey Creek resident Gwen Erickson said. "I came out to smell the dairy air, not to smell the dog food processing plant air. If that dog food plant goes in, I'm moving." The processing plant proposal caught both tenants and the apartment complex's owners by surprise. "We were fielding a ton of phone calls. The frustration there was not being able to say anything clearly to the people that were calling us," said Honey Creek Apartments general manager Mark Cummings-Hill. "Here