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News » Cabela's coming to Ashwaubenon
May 4, 2012
The area around Lambeau Field will soon be home to a large outdoors store.
Cabela's unveiled plans this morning to build a 100,000 square foot store along Lombardi Avenue, next to the Highway 41 interchange.
The Green Bay Packers own the 20-acre site in Ashwaubenon, and Cabela's will lease the property from the team. Packers President Mark Murphy says it's a key piece to the development plans around the stadium.
There are 11 acres of wetlands on the site, and Murphy says the DNR gave the team permission to fill in up to three acres. He says they're only going to fill in 1.65 acres.
The DNR issued the wetlands permit, after lawmakers passed a controversial law last year, that a number of conservation groups opposed.
Cabela's hopes to start construction in two months.
CEO Tommy Millner says they want to open in the summer of 2013, before the start of Packers training camp.
He says they're going to hire 175 to 200 workers.
(Pictured: Packers president Mark Murphy, right, with Cabela's CEO Tommy Millner, left, and Ashwaubenon village president Mike Aubinger, center.) |
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