Hammes Company, the developer for the contentious $109-million Edgewater hotel renovation, has a brilliant new idea for getting the Greek system to support the plan.

If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em!

On Sunday, Hammes will take a group of Greek leaders up to their luxury box at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.

The bus leaves the Edgewater at 7:30 a.m. for the noon game between the Packers and the Detroit Lions. The presentation? Why, an overview of the redevelopment of the Edgewater Hotel, of course!

“Refreshments” will be served “throughout the game,” so Hammes can get some frat boys good and drunk before sliding the city’s largest project in 15 years down their throats.

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I’m often critical of this city for creating obstacles to business, but it’s times like this when I remember why those obstacles are important.

The company that built Lambeau has no problem plunking down a few thousand bucks to get the support of these Langdon Street “transients” (as they’ve put it in the past).

Hammes has the resources their grassroots opponents don’t. And it kind of disgusts me that this is how the company is using those resources.