The Sturgeon Bay Common Council will vote to approve the dissolution of the Waterfront Redevelopment Authority as a part of its meeting Tuesday night. The committee unanimously approved its dissolution at its last meeting on December 13th. One of its last acts as the WRA was to turn its rights of the development agreement with Will Estes, LLC to the City of Sturgeon Bay. The agreement sorts out, among other things, the details related to parking for Sonny’s Italian Kitchen and Pizzeria. It did something similar in September 2022 when the WRA reassigned its agreements with Stone Harbor Resort, Bridgeport Resort, and Harbor Club Marina Development accord and to the city. The WRA was established in 1990 to help steer the development of the waterfront to make it more public-friendly. It found itself in the middle of a controversy in the mid-2010s when discussions around a planned hotel and the future of the former Teweles and Brandeis grain elevator hit a fever pitch. Sturgeon Bay Mayor David Ward spoke highly of the city's work to improve the waterfront and other public features when he recapped 2023 last month.

The Sturgeon Bay Common Council will also discuss a revised memorandum of understanding with Howard Immel Inc., which is in charge of constructing an industrial flex building inside the Sturgeon Bay Industrial Park. Originally slated to be 50,000 square feet, the new agreement will see the building shrink to 34,000 square feet and give Howard Immel more time to market the project, which has yet to be able to nail down tenants. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday at 6 p.m. inside the council’s Sturgeon Bay City Hall chambers.