The WPS Pulliam Power Plant Site (Fox 11 Online)
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – C. Reiss Company has submitted a new proposal to Brown County to move its coal piles from downtown Green Bay to the former Pulliam Power Plant site at the mouth of the Fox River.
The proposal is in response to a request for information Brown County put out recently to see what companies are interested in the Pulliam site.
Brown County leaders have said they would like to see what other potential uses there are for the site, while keeping the door open for the coal piles relocation.
C. Reiss is offering to either purchase the Pulliam site for $3.5 million or lease it for 25 years with three 25-year options to extend the lease. Lease payments would start at $110,000 per year with a 2% increase each year during the term agreement.
“C. Reiss’s proposal will achieve the long-held goal of moving the coal piles and generate an estimated $200 million in economic activity for Brown County, according to local officials,” C. Reiss CEO Keith Haselhoff writes in a statement. “This plan includes an imminent agreement with the City of Green Bay for revitalizing C. Reiss’s current downtown site and has the support of Mayor Genrich as well as multiple Great Lakes port and shipping companies. We look forward to continuing to engage with the County on this.”
C. Reiss says it would invest $28.5 million in the Pulliam site, using $25 million in state and federal grants that have previously been awarded to the effort. C. Reiss would use $3.5 million of its own money to purchase the property.
It appeared the coal piles could be staying at their current location, on the west bank of the Fox River just south of the Mason Street Bridge, after C. Reiss and Brown County’s board of supervisors were unable to reach an agreement in December.
The City of Green Bay and C. Reiss are in the process of formalizing a memorandum of understanding on how the current coal piles site would be redeveloped if the piles are moved.
Port of Green Bay Director Dean Haen has previously said at least one other company has responded to the county’s request for information on the Pulliam site.
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