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Article: Wisconsin State Fair Park Presses Affiliates for Plans.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Byline: Marie Rohde
Nov. 1--Over the next three months, the Pettit National Ice Center, the Milwaukee Mile and the Wisconsin Exposition Center will have to provide the State Fair Park Board with business plans designed to stem their financial losses, the board decided Friday.
Martin Greenberg, the park board's chairman, said the three ventures "should be given every chance" to succeed. But he added that it is imperative that State Fair Park's $4.5 million deficit be addressed quickly and that the core of the operation -- the State Fair -- survive.
"State Fair Park is a business and must be operated as a business," Greenberg said.
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