Governor Evers stopped in the Green Bay area today to show his support for a proposal to give $2 million in state funding for a visitors center.
Brad Toll of the Greater Green Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau says they have bi-partisan support from lawmakers, and he hopes they’ll take up their bill this fall.
He says the goal is to open the center in 2020, before the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits and the Badgers football game against Notre Dame at Lambeau Field.
It would be built near the Lombardi Avenue exit along I-41.
Evers initially included the money in his proposed budget, but Majority Republicans in the Legislature took it out. The bill would put the funding in the next budget.
The project will cost about $7 million, and Toll says they’ve already raised about $4 million.
