Green Bay wins $500,000 EPA assessment grant to ready Georgia Pacific site for riverfront revitalization

City of Green Bay officials announced that the city has been awarded a $500,000 EPA assessment grant to support its next round of brownfields work. "With a newly awarded $500,000 EPA assessment grant, we're already tackling our next generation of projects, relocating the massive sea rice coal piles, remediating the former WPS property, and preparing the 44 acre Georgia Pacific paper mill site for public riverfront revitalization," an agency official said.

Officials said the grant will fund environmental assessments and early-stage site preparation; they described specific target parcels including the former WPS property and a 44-acre Georgia Pacific paper mill parcel the city is preparing for future public waterfront use. City staff framed the grant as part of a layered funding strategy that uses assessment grants to enable cleanup planning and to position sites for future investment and redevelopment.