A site near the Summerfest grounds is properly zoned for a new indoor event venue proposed by a Madison concert promoter, even as Milwaukee officials pursue a zoning change for the site.
Organizers of the music festival that draws hundreds of thousands of people to Milwaukee's lakefront each summer has postponed the event for the first time in its 52-year history.
Crews are making headway on the second phase of an overhaul of Summerfest's American Family Insurance Amphitheater — the largest building project festival organizers have ever undertaken.
Construction crews have successfully raised the roof of the American Family Insurance Amphitheater on the Summerfest grounds in Milwaukee by 26 feet, a milestone in Phase 1 of the redevelopment project.
The new Uline Warehouse Stage with Miller Lite will be just the latest project in a massive overhaul of the Summerfest grounds at Henry Maier Festival Park. Recent years have seen quite a bit of work take place on the festival ground’s north end. Among the projects completed in time for Summerfest 2018 were a new north gate and plaza and the construction of the U.S. Cellular Connection stage and Klement’s Sausage & Beer Garden.
Crews from Veit Co., of Rogers, Minn., got to work Wednesday morning demolishing the American Family Insurance Amphitheater at Milwaukee’s Summerfest grounds.