The one-story buildings are owned by Thomas Kane of Denmark and Lyle Thiem of De Pere. The addresses have shown some improvement, but still average nearly six police calls per apartment per year. The average for all of Imperial Lane is now fewer than two calls per apartment per year. But there is a lot of changeover. People move in and out of there all the time.
Trouble seems to go in cycles.
Expectations James Norton of Green Bay has owned four duplexes on Imperial Lane for about six years. He knows the area has problems, but said he has worked hard to keep problems out of his buildings by screening tenants and making his expectations clear. The ones who don't, I end up evicting. Before beat cops came to Imperial Lane, Norton's properties averaged more than six calls a year and ranked among the most active apartments on the lane for generating police calls. In the two years since the beat cops started their work, Norton's duplexes were ranked 10th and 13th for activity per apartment, the most improvement in the area.