In an email released under Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act, a Cloverleaf development principal wrote about a site the company chose not to pursue: "Cloverleaf will not work in communities where this type of development is unwelcome or the development does not match the existing use for the land. That is a decision we will make ten times out of ten."
We did not write that sentence. The company did, in writing, about a different community.
The record shows the company has acted on it. It withdrew from Greenleaf, Wisconsin in January 2026. It dropped its initial Michigan plans in October 2025 after the Dundee council voted to block the water supply, acknowledging that it should have done more public communication and listening.
The record also shows the other outcome. In Port Washington, Wisconsin, Cloverleaf assembled and annexed 1,900 acres and then handed the package to Vantage Data Centers for an $8 billion campus. Both endings are real. Which one a community gets appears to depend, at least in part, on whether that community says clearly and early that the development is unwelcome.1234