Limited tickets remain for Paul McCartney concert at Lambeau Field

The tickets are nearly gone to see Paul McCartney next year at Lambeau Field.

The tickets went on sale to the general public Monday morning. Thousands were purchased in several pre-sale opportunities, which started last Wednesday.

On Ticketmaster late Monday evening, there were just about 100 face-value seats remain available.

The Packers have said about 45,000 tickets would be sold for the show.

Face value seats started at $59. Floor ticket packages went as high as $2,250. The majority of face-value seats that remain are those high-priced packages.

“We kept getting pushed off the website in the beginning and then finally we got on and got pretty decent tickets,” said Tom Ciske of Appleton, who purchased the maximum of eight tickets for one person. “It paid off, but it took about an hour and 20 minutes.”

Thousands of tickets for the McCartney concert have already hit the resale websites. StubHub's lowest price is about $90 for a ticket. That is about $30 more than the lowest face-value seat.

The Green Bay/Brown County Professional Football Stadium District Board helped lure McCartney to Green Bay with a rebate of its ticket tax. For all special events at Lambeau Field, the stadium district board collects a 10 percent ticket tax. It agreed to give half of that revenue to McCartney promoter Live Nation.

The Stadium District Board uses its cut to attract other events to the area and to help with economic development projects.

“We've brought in fishing tournaments, bowling tournaments, we brought in pool tournaments, dart tournaments, and we've also helped with the Meyer Theatre, the Botanical Gardens,” said Pat Webb, the executive director of the stadium district board.

Like the 2017 Billy Joel concert at Lambeau Field, the McCartney concert is expected to generate about $225,000 for the stadium district board, according to Webb.

The 2016 Badgers/LSU football game brought in about $900,000 for the stadium district board. In October 2020, the Badgers will return to Lambeau to play Notre Dame.

“This will obviously free up some funds to help some smaller projects between now and then,” said Webb.

To attract more concerts in the future, the board agreed to make it standard procedure to share up to half of its ticket tax revenue with the concert promoter.