The Common Council is scheduled next week to consider and possibly approve spending up to $690,000 on a project to repair the stadium's playing surface, which was destroyed by August flooding.
The Friends of Firefly Grove Park is looking ahead to an active 2026 and soon expects to proceed with its efforts with the backing of a formal partnership with the City of Wauwatosa.
Though cars won't be able to get through, the county is turning the half-mile middle segment into a dedicated bike and pedestrian path, an extension of the Oak Leaf Trail.
Heat Haven has begun setting up its mobile saunas and cold plunges at pop-up installations in the region and has proposed a semi-permanent winter sauna park at Wauwatosa's Hart Park.
The city was able to identify just enough space outside of the flood plain and south of the parking lot to fit two single-occupancy restrooms, though installation is at least nine months off.
