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Lauderdale Lakes BREEZE SUMMER 2023 • First Edition
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Frank’s Piggly Wiggly WHERE FRIENDS HAVE FUN TOGETHER stores sold to Hansen’s IGA Market By Deborah Cruger CORRESPONDENT
Once located on Surfwood Drive in Elkhorn, Luebke’s Resort transitioned from a campground with a restaurant and bar to Lauderdale Shores, a condominium community of campers and manufactured homes. Lauderdale Shores is widely considered to be the most reasonably priced condominium community on Lauderdale Lakes. The community is a patchwork of decades-old campers and newer manufactured homes with porches and designer furnishings. Lauderdale Shores is located on Green Lake near Lauderdale Bible Camp’s 52-acre campus. The community is open from midApril through mid-October. It has a community beach, boat slips for residents, a private boat launch, volleyball and a bath house. Most residents drive golf carts within the community as they are a convenient means of transportation to visit friends, go to the beach, go to the piers or visit nearby Pebble Beach. The Lauderdale Shores Condominium Association, which oversees the community, has enacted quiet hours, a no pet policy and other regulations that make the seasonal home community a great place to live. The draw of this lake access community is clear. Green Lake, where Lauderdale Shores is located, is the deepest of the three lakes that make up the Lauderdale Lake chain. This is the same lake that people pay millions of dollars to live on. Nearby waterfront homes sell for $1 to $3 million. Most homeowners who live in manufactured home communities do not own the land that they live upon and must pay a monthly rent. Lauderdale Shores is unique in that residents own both their land and unit. There is no monthly land fee – only a small association fee of $122. This fee covers water/sewer, pier installation and removal and grounds maintenance. There are property taxes on units in Lauderdale Shores, but these taxes are minimal compared to traditional lake home taxes. Over the past two years, five condominiums have sold at Lauderdale Shores for less than $200,000 each. This does not include the units that have been sold by owner. Currently, there are only two properties listed for sale in the community. Realtor Karen Ostermeier, with Compass Wisconsin-Elkhorn, has unit 8 available at $198,500. According to the listing, this private lakeside unit is move-in ready and features a large screened-in porch and a boat slip just a few steps away from the unit. Lauderdale Lakes has historically low lakefront inventory. As of May 1st, there are only three waterfront homes for sale on Lauderdale Lakes. Each home is listed at well over a million. This could mean that buyers are ready to pounce on lake access properties in good locations as the 2023 season progresses.
After 42 years of owning a grocery store, and more than 60 years in the business for Frank Lueptow, and 50 for Stephanie Lueptow, they are retiring. According to a news release, the Lueptows sold their stores and shopping centers in Elkhorn and East Troy in late April. Hansen’s IGA Markets purchased the businesses. In 1981, Frank and Stephanie Lueptow opened a 5,000-square-foot store, Frank’s Quality Market in downtown Elkhorn. Within a year they bought their nearest competitor and moved across the street to a 10,000-square-foot location and rebranded as Frank’s SuperValu Discount Foods. The Lueptows spent a decade in that location, until it was time again to upgrade. In 1991 they opened their current location as Frank’s County Market in a new 35,000-square-foot building. As the Elkhorn continued to grow, so did Frank’s. In 2001, they completed a 10,000-square-foot addition. Lueptows expressed their excitement of growing at the time saying, “It is our great pleasure to continue to expand and evolve with our hometown.” In 2009, Frank’s expanded east by acquiring the East Troy Sentry store. “We are so excited to grow and service the community of East Troy. It is a special place, and we look forward to being part of the community,” the Lueptows • CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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Properties on Lauderdale Shores are popular throughout the summer. from top: Unit 8 in Lauderdale Shores has updated décor with new flooring, new windows and a new roof; This private lakeside unit has a screened-in porch overlooking the lake and a patio for warm summer nights; Unit 8 is also just a few steps away from a deep water boat slip that comes with the unit. Boat lifts are also allowed in the slips. KAREN OSTERMEIER The Breeze
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