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Location: Menasha, WI | $25 million convention center-resort complex planned near North Fond du Lac
By Heather Stanek
The Reporter [email protected]
Plans are in the works to build a $25 million full-service resort and conference center along Lake Winnebago on a parcel of land to be annexed to North Fond du Lac.
Alex Zabel, the developer, said the "Winnebago Project" will be the only one of its kind on the lake. It will feature 20,000 square feet of meeting space and a dining hall that could accommodate up to 600 people. The marina will have slips for 40 to 60 boats.
Zabel — a Fond du Lac native, Goodrich High School graduate and owner of Green Lake Real Estate — added that 90 percent of the 180-plus rooms will have a lake view.
Work on the Winnebago Project is expected to begin this fall. Zabel said the old Chaparral restaurant and building, the site of the future conference center, will be demolished, and crews will dredge the harbor. The site once housed an old landfill, but the holding tanks have been removed. Several low-grade wetlands will be consumed by the project, he added.
Once cleanup is finished and the marina is built, crews will construct the rest, he said. If all goes well, it should open by spring 2010, he said.
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