‘A brand new neighborhood’: Green Bay sets stage for largest-ever housing development

Land donation from community employer will help build 200 units, public park, urban farm.

Green Bay broke ground last week on the first steps toward developing what the city said will be its largest-ever housing development.

Plans call for the development of a minimum of 200 single- and multi-family homes, a public park and urban farm on a roughly 26-acre parcel donated by a local employer, according to Amaad Rivera-Wagner, the city’s project manager for the redevelopment and the mayor’s chief of staff.

“We are essentially building a brand new neighborhood on land that has been essentially a farm or not utilized for nearly 100 years,” Rivera-Wagner said...