Wisconsin Rapids-WI

5 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 6 WISCONSIN RAPIDS , WI Field—a true turning point for Wisconsin Rapids as it begins to rebrand for the future. Home to three pools, various water slide features, a bathhouse, and colorful shade structures, the park was designed to offer something for everyone. The facility accommodates plenty of winter uses, with the bath house lobby transforming into a warming shelter, and the circular vehicular drop-off zone converting into an ice skating rink. “That was all incorporated into the existing sports district next to the historic Witter Field baseball park, which hosts our intercollegiate league team,” Kearns explains. “These are rare things to have for a community our size, but we’ve really tried to promote quality of life in this way. When the pandemic happened, the paper mill idled, so we’re looking to diversify our industry. We were able to land a pretty large project—their name is Matalco— employing nearly 100 people in aluminum billet