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January 2021

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w w w . i n s i g h t o n b u s i n e s s . c o m J a n u a r y 2 0 2 1 • I NSIGH T | 15 • INTERSTATE 41 CORRIDOR Brown, Calumet, Outagamie, Winnebago, Fond du Lac Counties Green Bay Booyah announce plan to transfer team ownership e Green Bay Booyah ownership group announced plans to transfer team ownership to Skogen's Festival Foods President and CEO Mark Skogen. e sale was pending the transfer of the lease for Capital Credit Union Park. e Village of Ashwaubenon board of trustees planned to review the transfer at a mid-December meeting. If approved by the village board, the sale was expected to be completed before the end of 2020. All team personnel will stay on under Skogen's ownership and day-to-day operations will continue to be run by Vice President and General Manager John Fanta. e original ownership team included Steve Schmitt, Vern Stenman and Conor Caloia. Earlier this year, Skogen announced he would open the Epic Event Center, a music and event venue on Holmgren Way, just blocks from the Capital Credit Union Park. e original ownership group purchased the franchise that was originally founded as the Green Bay Bullfrogs in December of 2013. Under their ownership, the franchise moved from Joannes Stadium to the recently constructed Capital Credit Union Park in the Village of Ashwaubenon and rebranded as the Green Bay Booyah in 2019. NEW Launch Alliance announces startup competition winners Debtle of Kohler and Pure and Complete Phonics LLC of Oshkosh were selected as the winners at the NEW Launch Alliance HATCH Event, held virtually in December. ey emerged from six competitors who earlier had qualified by winning local pitch events during Startup Week in Wisconsin to earn prize money. e two winners will be invited to pitch again at this year's New North Summit to receive broader investor attention. Last year's summit winners also will provide an update on the status of their company launches. "e judges and I were impressed by the strength of the entrepreneurial ideas put forth by our six competitors," says Barb LaMue, president and CEO of New North, Inc., the event's sponsor. "It reinforced the strength of the startup community in our region." Debtle, presented by co-founder Stephanie Hoskins, won first place in the competition, including prize money of $3,000. e startup is tackling the consumer debt crisis by helping companies and their customers negotiate and settle overdue invoices through a cloud-based platform, scalable to any size business, that automates, improves and simplifies the negotiation of bad debt accounts. Debtle has found early success with pilot sites for both businesses and individuals. It plans to use the prize money from the New North pitch competition to wrap [continued ] » Greenville is leading the way with transformative change to its regulations and zoning codes, spurring a wider range of new housing options and lower overall development costs with: • Speedier review processes • More flexibility in housing types – apartments, townhouses, duplexes, granny flats, and smaller homes Greenville…a model for what Fox Valley can become! GREAT JOB, GREENVILLE! Congratulations From the REALTORS ® Association of Northeast Wisconsin Greenville's hard work and innovation ensure that all citizens – including those people working in their community – have affordable housing choices that meet their needs today…and in the future. Paid for by the Wisconsin Homeowners Alliance. https://wisconsinhomeownersalliance.org/ WI_Workforce Housing LOCAL re-zoningNEGreen With Envy Ad1_v02.indd 1 WI_Workforce Housing LOCAL re-zoningNEGreen With Envy Ad1_v02.indd 1 11/5/20 10:13 AM 11/5/20 10:13 AM

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