GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich is applauding a bipartisan bill that would provide $5 million in funding to help move the coal piles south of downtown.
Efforts to move the coal pile go back decades.
“This is something that I think mayors have been focused on going back nearly 70 years back to the the early to mid fifties,” said Genrich. “The stars have kind of aligned here.”
The bill passed Tuesday in the state assembly uses $5 million worth of American Recovery Plan Funding to finance moving the coal piles from the C. Reiss Coal Slip just south of Green Bay’s downtown to a new site, the former WPS Pulliam Plant property.
“Whatever route it takes, we’re just glad that our governor and our legislative delegation are supportive of the effort,” Genrich told WTAQ.
It would free up 40 acres of riverfront for development.
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