Milwaukee Tool plans 141,000-square-foot expansion in Menomonee Falls

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Milwaukee Tool unveiled plans for another building in Menomonee Falls, adding a 141-square-foot office and lab building to its growing footprint in the village.

Menomonee Falls officials on Tuesday reviewed a proposed facility for 50 employees on the north end of Flint Drive. The project is planned for the north of the Red Line Project on Leatherwood Court and the former Strong Capital Management building at 100 Heritage Reserve.

It’s the fifth building Milwaukee Tool has proposed in the area since at least February.

The company bought 111 acres in the Woodland Prime Office Park and the Heritage Reserve site with plans to expand into a multi-purpose campus, a village agenda showed. In 2024, Milwaukee Tool bought the former Strong Capital Management building, and renovation work is underway.

The project will include 68 parking stalls, a bus drop-off area and proposed drive access from the north end of Flint Drive, plans showed. A second drive was proposed from Flint Drive through the office building site south of the project.

The facility will support manufacturing operations, prototype product testing and client interaction with finished and in-development products, a letter from Brookfield-based MADE Architects showed.

Milwaukee Tool submitted building plans to DNR, backed by village incentive

In February, Milwaukee Tool shared plans for four new buildings with around 750,000 square feet on 55 acres northwest of Flint Drive. The buildings will serve 2,000 employees and the project is supported by village tax incentives. The campus is expected to create $205.8 million in value by 2038.

The company submitted plans to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources as one acre of wetland is located on developable land. The company will need state and federal approval to build over the wetland and might have to plan how to replace any wetlands destroyed by construction.

Work continues at former Strong office

In September 2025, the governor’s office announced that Milwaukee Tool will invest $42 million in a Menomonee Falls facility with the help of performance-based tax credits from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.

Remodeling the former Strong building, first completed in the 1980s, will create 300 jobs, according to the governor’s office.

Strong Capital Management was acquired by Wells Fargo in 2004. Allspring Global Investments, with roots in the Strong firm, started in 2021 and moved from Menomonee Falls to Milwaukee’s Third Ward neighborhood.

The Milwaukee Tool Red Line facility was recognized as a Daily Reporter 2023 Top Projects winner. The 215,000-square-foot facility is home to the company’s research and development and video and photography studio.