Jansen led me on a tour of the arena – along with Greg Peterson, director of operations and project management, and marketing manager Kim Nguyen – that took in a host of typically unseen spaces. "Well, you figure we have at least two to three more years in here," says Paul Jansen, the BMOHBC VP of sales, marketing and business development, "that’s more than a million people and they expect an exciting experience and we want to give it to them." So, it was a little surprising to see carpenters hard at work down below, working on an expansion of the Bucks floor (not the game surface, but adjacent portions to accommodate seating) a little unexpected to find work progressing on a revamp of the Courtside Club. Scott Walker signed into law the financing plan for a new Bucks arena to be built, most likely, next door.Īlmost nobody expects the Bradley Center to stand long after the completion of that arena, which is likely to open by 2017.
I was up there amid the roof structure with a team of folks from the BMOHBC on the day that Gov. Opened in 1988, this place – built to arena design standards of 30 years ago and tailored to an NHL team that never arrived – was demolished in 2019.
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Standing in the penthouse – the highest point you can access inside the BMO Harris Bradley Center – and gazing down about 13 stories through the metal grate beneath your feet, the view down to the Bucks playing floor is stunning.įor some it might be vertigo-inducing, but the view made me philosophical about Milwaukee’s pro sports arena.
In honor of the Milwaukee Bucks NBA Finals appearance we're resharing this story about the team's one-time home, the Bradley Center.
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