LAND AND SPACE

Downtown Milwaukee's Hyatt Place opens as former Pabst brewery redevelopment continues

Tom Daykin
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The new Hyatt Place hotel opened Tuesday at the former Pabst brewery complex in downtown Milwaukee.

Downtown Milwaukee's new Hyatt Place hotel opened Tuesday — another key project in the ongoing redevelopment of the former Pabst brewery complex.

The six-story, 150-room hotel is at 800 W. Juneau Ave., two blocks west of the new Milwaukee Bucks arena. It was developed by Deerfield, Ill.-based Janko Group and is the first Milwaukee hotel to be operated by Janko Hospitality.

The Hyatt Place's interior design features references to the Bucks arena and the nearby Bucks training facility, including a basketball net-inspired backdrop at the registration desk, basketball-themed artwork in the guest rooms and photos of former Bucks such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the lounge area.

Downtown Milwaukee's Hyatt Place hotel, which opened Tuesday at 800 W. Juneau Ave., has several homages to the new Milwaukee Bucks arena, which is just two blocks to the south. Those features include a design behind the lobby desk that evokes a basketball net.

Other features include a bar with local beers, an outdoor terrace overlooking the new arena, a fitness center and 1,700 square feet of meeting space.

Also, the top floor offers raised ceilings and shower heads "for athletes taking advantage of the hotel’s proximity to the new basketball arena," according to Janko.

The $27 million development is among the final group of projects at the converted former Pabst complex, now known as The Brewery.

Others include:

  • Milwaukee Brewing Co.'s new brewery and attached restaurant, Glass + Griddle, with the restaurant to open Aug. 15 in a renovated portion of the former Pabst distribution center, at 1130 N. 9th St. Those projects total $11.6 million.
  • No Studios, a former Pabst building at 1037 W. McKinley Ave., that filmmaker John Ridley is converting into work space to help nurture local filmmakers. It is to open in September and will include offices for Milwaukee Film Inc., space for University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Marquette University film students, local film production firms and a post-production facility.
  • Vim and Vigor apartments, two five-story buildings, totaling 274 apartments and 7,000 square feet of retail space, at 926 W. Juneau Ave. and 1003 W. Winnebago St. Wired Properties LLC and Indianapolis-based Milhaus Development LLC plan to complete that $40 million project by spring 2019.
  • Brewery Lofts, the conversion of the former Pabst malt house and grain warehouse into 118 apartments on seven floors at 1009 W. Juneau Ave. The $41 million project, from New York-based Whitestone Realty Capital LLC, resumed work last year after a lengthy delay.

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