Developer Mike Faber wasn’t the first real estate guy who tried to buy the farmland where Amazon.com’s Oak Creek distribution center will be built.
One landowner, the Tischendorf family, kept a manila file labeled “Bloodsuckers,” with information on past investors who had made offers, said Faber, principal of Capstone Development of Waukesha. Faber remembers Dennis Tischendorf pulling out that file during one of their meetings.
The Tischendorf family had owned and farmed the land for generations.…
