ASHWAUBENON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – It’s been almost two weeks since snow damaged and left a hole in the Brown County Arena’s lobby and conference room.
Crews started cleaning it up Thursday.
“The debris has been removed thoroughly and they’re putting in temporary barriers from the inside and the outside,” said Terry Charles, PMI Entertainment Group public relations director.
As FOX 11 previously reported, the hole was approximately 50-by-20 feet left from snow falling through the roof of the inner lobby.
Charles says the damage is estimated to cost between $150,000 to $200,000.
Most of the cost will be covered by insurance, according to Charles.
The damage pushed a few upcoming events to the Resch Center or ShopKo Hall.
“The weekend after this happened, we did have a spa sale scheduled at the Brown County Arena. We lost that. That moved elsewhere. It went to Appleton. This coming weekend is the cornhole tournament,” Charles said.
The event had to be moved to ShopKo Hall.
“We have over 200 people who have already registered for our top division. We also have competitive and social players,” said Stacey Moore.
The location change was no big deal for Moore who’s the American Cornhole League commissioner.
“That’s the great thing about our sport, our boards are portable. All we need is a flat open area and we can set up a tournament,” he said.
A dart tournament is scheduled May 16 through the 20.
That was supposed to share event space with the arena.
“The Resch Center will be the secondary venue for that,” Charles said.
The damaged also pushed the Greater Green Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau out of its office.
Charles says a meeting with PMI, Brown County officials and architects is scheduled Friday, May 4.
“The hope is, at some point next week, the repairs would begin to replace the roof over the area of the inner lobby which connects the main lobby and the actual bowl of the Brown County Arena,” Charles said.
He went on to say he’s hoping repairs will be completed by June 1.
A replacement plan, for a new $93 million expo center, is in place.
“If all things go as planned and hoped, the demolition of the entire arena would start at some point in 2019. Perhaps, late spring/early summer,” Charles said.
