Business View Magazine | October 2020

257 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2020 V I LLAGE OF PLOVER , WI SCONS IN the Village with the idea of undertaking the necessary fundraising to construct baseball and softball facilities, as well as running its leagues, as long as Plover would maintain the facilities, going forward. “That’s something that has worked out well for us,” he says. “So, the Village has used that as a guideline as we look to establish other partnerships, and we’ve been very successful with those efforts.” That dynamic of creating mutually successful partnerships extends to the larger community just north of Plover - Stevens Point. “It’s about twice as large as the Village, but they have a great mixture of businesses that matches what we do. So, we feed each other from an economic development standpoint, which works extremely well.” One particular project that the Village recently “inherited” is the Sentry Curling Center. “The club, itself, is actually called the Stevens Point Curling Club,” Mahoney remarks. “They only had two sheets of ice and wanted to be able