A little
Central Park.
Open green space that belongs to the people who live near it. No buildings, no cafés, no admission.
The field at 428 Wisconsin
The old Senior Activity Center is gone. Demolished, grass growing, a big open field ringed by houses a block from the Y. Right now county vehicles park on it.
It should be a park. Open, better condition than any park in the city, a short walk with elevation to the art center. Get ahead of whatever's coming — claim it for the public before someone claims it for a deal.
What a park is for
Nothing. That's the point. A park is the place where nothing has to happen — no transaction, no program, no admission. Kids, dogs, lunch, naps, frisbee. The city keeps trying to fill open space with concepts. The vision leaves it open.
Sheboygan has Maywood, beautiful trails, a lake. What it doesn't have is a true central green — the kind of place a neighborhood gathers because there's nowhere else they'd rather be.
Hands, not contracts
Parks die when the city stops touching them — when mowing, repair, and care become a stack of vendor contracts managed from City Hall. A park the public loves needs the city's own hands on it: people who mow, fix, plant, and show up.
The vision isn't just the land. It's the workforce that keeps it.
The baseline
See where Sheboygan actually stands today: the Sheboygan baseline →
More of the vision: the lake → · marina to downtown →