A new study claims the Milwaukee Brewers and Miller Park have had a two-and-a-half billion dollar economic impact over the past two decades.
The study was conducted by Conventions, Sports and Leisure International for the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce.
It found the state has collected over $605-million in taxes to pay for the ballpark, which has drawn nearly three-million people on average to Milwaukee every year since 2001. The total impact includes $1.6 billion in direct spending.
According to the study, Brewers’ game attendance was ranked eighth last year despite being based in the smallest market in Major League Baseball. Miller Park generates 18-hundred jobs a year.
