Is Brewers executive referring to Milwaukee or WOW counties in reference to stadium development plan being a good step forward?
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What it takes to maintain Brewers stadium American Family Field
A $546 million ballpark financing plan aimed at keeping the Milwaukee Brewers in Wisconsin through at least 2050 has been approved by the state Assembly. Here’s what goes into maintaining the stadium.
Regarding potential development around the Brewers stadium, Brewers executive Rick Schlesinger said the Brewers would have to consider “the needs of our fans and the community.” Really, what community is that? Using that word is disingenuous at best. (“Stadium development study is good step forward, Brewers executive says,” Dec. 9.)
One example — who in the stadium district or the club itself is preventing public transportation from easily accessing the stadium? We talk about Hank Aaron taking a streetcar to the games, but the Brewers don’t want anyone taking a bus to the game. At every turn the Brewers, and the bidding-doing baseball district, try to make the game as WOW-county friendly as possible at the expense of the people. We’re living it now with the freeway expansion. (Note: WOW counties are three suburban counties west and north of Milwaukee: Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington.)
Next time we heap praise on the Brewers for ‘philanthropic’ work please remember all the 50/50 raffle tickets, rounding up, and other ways in which they ask fans to give so they can give under their name. The margins are good enough to not rely on us to pay more for their PR. Like the Bucks, they should be spending their energy undoing the guilt of robbing the public.
If we get a needed Dem trifecta at the state level, it’s only worthwhile if officials intentionally undo the damage done by the state. One such move should be revamping the District so this massive piece of land is run by an entity that cares about our city.
Daniel Bauman, Milwaukee
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