San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants this week opened its new Kimpton Journeyman Hotel in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward.
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- The Kimpton Journeyman Hotel opened this week in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward.
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- The Kimpton Journeyman Hotel is located at 310 E. Chicago St.
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- The first-floor restaurant, Tre Rivali.
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- The lobby of the Kimpton Journeyman.
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- A local artist stenciled the lobby floor.
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- Guests can use the first floor “living room” space to visit.
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- The “living room” area off the lobby.
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- A pool table off the lobby.
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- The first floor cafe serves Tre Rivali coffee and Rishi tea.
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- Sunny seats in the cafe.
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- The music and lighting in the first floor cafe, restaurant and bar areas will change throughout the day.
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- Tre Rivali is open to the public and has a separate entrance.
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- Former “Top Chef” contestant Heather Terhune is the chef for the Tre Rivali restaurant on the first floor.
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- The first-floor bar includes local spirits and beers.
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- A meeting room.
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- The workout facility.
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- Floors two through eight are king deluxe rooms.
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- Each room has a bombay chest with engine carts and departure gates specific to Milwaukee.
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- Each room has a dog statue and bowl for furry friends.
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- A room’s snack bar.
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- The bathroom in a one-bedroom suite.
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- Milwaukee art is featured throughout the hotel.
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- A one-bedroom suite in the Kimpton Journeyman.
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- The rooftop bar.
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- The rooftop patio has string lighting and lots of seating.
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- Seating on the rooftop patio.
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- The view of downtown from the rooftop patio.
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- The rooftop patio has clusters of couches and fireplaces.
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- The view of the lake from the rooftop patio.
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- A dining table in the presidential suite.
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- Some bathrooms feature roll-in showers that are ADA accessible.
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- The hotel is dog-friendly.
The 158-room, nine-floor hotel at the northeast corner of Broadway and Chicago Street, features more than 7,000 square feet of meeting and event space, a first-floor restaurant, cafe and bar, as well as an eighth floor rooftop bar and lounge with sweeping views of downtown and the lake.
The name “Journeyman” is a nod to Milwaukee’s manufacturing heritage, while the restaurant name, Tre Rivali, refers to the three rivals who founded Milwaukee. There are old Milwaukee pictures and other local touches throughout the hotel.
A local artist stenciled the floor in the lobby, which adjoins a “living room” in which guests can visit. On the other side of the lobby is a billiard room. A large portion of the first floor is dining space.
The cafe will serve Tre Rivali coffee and Rishi tea. Former “Top Chef” contestant Heather Terhune will serve as chef of the Tre Rivali restaurant, which has its own separate public entrance. The bar serves craft drinks made with local spirits, including Great Lakes Distillery, Central Standard Distillery, as well as local beers, including Milwaukee Brewing Co.
A variety of meeting and event spaces are on the second floor. The second through eighth floor guest rooms are king deluxe rooms, priced at $219 per night. The ninth floor contains one-bedroom suites prices in the low- to mid-300s and the presidential suite.
The hotel is pet-friendly, with ceramic dog statues and bowls in the entrance to each room. There is a bombay chest in each room painted with engine carts and departure gates specific to Milwaukee.
Milwaukee entrepreneur Bob Kraft, chairman, president and chief executive officer of FirstPathway Partners, who brokered the foreign financing for the Kimpton, said he was pleased with how the project turned out.
“I knew it would be good,” he said. “Everybody put a lot of time and effort into it. We wanted the best and we got it. It’s pretty unique to Milwaukee for sure, and being in the Third Ward with the arts and everything going on here, it’s perfect.”
The project was developed by Milwaukee-based HKS Holdings LLC, designed by Kahler Slater Architects and constructed by CD Smith Construction.
