SHEBOYGAN, WI (WHBL) - After several months of talks Aurora Health Care, the Sheboygan Area School District, and the City of Sheboygan have reached a plan to create a new medical building and recreational facility.
S-A-S-D would sell Field of Dreams North to Aurora so they can build a new outpatient care facility. Dave Graebner, president of Sheboygan Memorial, says the change will help with space issues. "We’ve been at 100-percent capacity at both our clinic and our hospital. So what it will provide for us is the ability to make some further investment or program changes that will enhance the care both at the hospital and the clinic," says Graebner.
In exchange, Aurora will help transform the former Butzen Farm property on the city’s southside into a state-of-the-art sports facility, with a focus mostly on soccer. Sheboygan Council President Don Hammond says they got the land last year with a request to make its use recreational. "The idea was to create tournament-grade fields so that we can hold, or they could host, major regional tournaments," says Hammond
S-A-S-D’s Board of Education is scheduled to vote on the Field of Dreams North land sale Tuesday night. If all goes as plan, the new facilities would be open for use by the end of 2018.