GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – The Green Bay Packers will present a $200,000 grant to Green Bay East High School for the redevelopment of the playing field at City Stadium on Friday.
The grant is awarded by the Packers Foundation, with funds secured through the NFL Club Matching Youth Football Field/Stadium Grant Program. The funds will be used to match money already raised by the school to help install a new playing surface. That project is expected to wrap up by fall 2017.
The announcement will happen at 6:40 p.m. at City Stadium before East’s game against Menasha. Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy and Green Bay East athletic director Timothy Flood will give remarks, and Murphy will present the check to Dr. Michelle Langenfeld, superintendent of schools and learning for the Green Bay Area Public School District. It’s the third such Packers grant in conjunction specifically with the NFL’s Club Matching Youth Football Field/Stadium Grant Program. It’s also the 15th grant secured by the Packers since 1998 for Wisconsin organizations working on new or renovated athletic fields and stadiums, with the cumulative total now at $2,110,000.
A previous grant to Green Bay East High School in 2001 went toward the cost of the City Stadium Commemoration Project.
The Packers now have secured $2,110,000 in grants for youth and prep fields since 1998.
