Still, the Brewers have been working for months to secure public funding for stadium repairs and upgrades. The team itself is valued at around $1.6 billion, according to Forbes.

The team’s principal owner, Mark Attanasio, has an estimated net worth of $700 million, according to Yahoo Finance.

Public funding for professional sports facilities is hotly debated across the country. That could translate to dips in state aid to municipalities across the state. He warned that if the Brewers were to leave Wisconsin the state, the city and the county would lose tens of millions of dollars in income and sales taxes. He stressed that the package creates no new taxes, instead using income taxes on players' salaries as a funding stream. He spent the next hour and a half promoting the proposal. Brooks began his presentation by joking that he doesn't blame the committee for the loss. The team's fans are reeling after the Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the Brewers 5-2 on Wednesday night, eliminating them from the playoffs.

He argued for the bills at Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis during a hearing organized by the state Assembly. Rob Brooks has developed a pair of bills that call for handing public dollars from the state, the city of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County to the team. – The chief architect of a plan to hand the Milwaukee Brewers more than $614 million to cover stadium improvements defended his proposal Thursday in front of a legislative committee, promising the deal will keep the team in Milwaukee for another generation without new taxes.

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