Business View Magazine | October 2020

269 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2020 expanded the TID and is ready to do so again to accommodate new development. Ballpark Commons is a mixed-use destination development started by ROC Ventures in 2012. Mike Zimmerman, President of ROC Ventures and owner of the Milwaukee Wave soccer team, created The Rock Sports Complex on a closed and failing landfill with six major league baseball replica fields, a large outdoor Umbrella Bar with food truck rallies and live music series, a regional Halloween attraction, The Hills Has Eyes, and The Snow Park ski and tubing hill. Encouraged by 125,000 annual visitors, ROC Ventures expanded The Rock with assistance from Franklin in the form of $29M in TID funding for public infrastructure improvements, transforming the development into the 200- acre Ballpark Commons development. With this public-private partnership came rapid private investment to the tune of more than $200M once all projects are built out. To date, BPC includes Franklin Field, a 4,000-seat stadium for Phone: OFTEN IMITATED... www.seagrave.com NEVER DUPLICATED Business View Mag Qtr Pg for Franklin WI 9_2020 Aerialscopes.indd 1 9/16/2020 2:49:47 PM FRANKL IN, WI SCONS IN