MILWAUKEE BUCKS

Exterior deconstruction of BMO Harris Bradley Center begins with removal of signage

JR Radcliffe
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

For the past several weeks, the digital sign outside the BMO Harris Bradley Center has thanked passers-by for 30 years and asked, "What will you remember?"

The sign on the BMO Harris Bradley Center starts to come down. Workers unbolt the letters, and then they are lowered to the ground by crane and loaded on a truck.

It's going to get harder to remember just how the building used to look in the weeks ahead. On Monday, the outside signage identifying the building came down, the first of many steps toward the dismantling of the arena, which opened in 1988.

The building will continue to get stripped away over the next several months — there is no controlled implosion planned. 

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The Bucks hired Veit & Co. Inc., a Minneapolis firm with a New Berlin office, to dismantle the facility. The final scheduled event in the building is the annual Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. convention, taking place July 21-25.

The sign on the BMO Harris Bradley Center starts to come down. Workers unbolt the letters, and then they are lowered to the ground by crane and loaded on a truck.