The first new facility that Brookfield-based
Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. intends to build at its planned
multi-purpose campus in Menomonee Falls will be used to test its products and showcase them to hundreds of visitors a day, according to documents filed with the village.
Milwaukee Tool in December unveiled plans to invest $100 million in the Woodland Prime business park in a campus that would consist of nearly 700,000 square feet of new facilities and create roughly 770 jobs by 2025.
The campus is to include a
new 120,000-square-foot building north of Leatherwood Court. Project plans filed recently with the village reveal more details about the facility.
"The building will ultimately be utilized as a national marketing space for the demonstration of products as well as ongoing product testing of Milwaukee Tool products," according to a village staff report.
A site plan labels the building as a technology center, and puts it at more than 121,600 square feet.
It will operate between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, with 10 full-time workers and 30 part-time workers. The company expects "roughly 200 visitors a day" will visit the facility to view product demonstrations, according to the report.
A 107-stall parking lot will be located to the south of the building, and will be used by employees and visitors. If more parking is required, Milwaukee Tool will provide transport from other parking areas, the report states.
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The facility was referred to as "Project Redline" while Milwaukee Tool's identity as the user was kept secret. The name Project Redline still appears at various points of the submitted plans.
Village officials will review the project plans and consider whether to approve the building's industrial use. The Plan Commission will take up the approval
when it meets on Tuesday evening.
Milwaukee Tool's Woodland Prime campus will extend well beyond this single building. The company last year purchased and began renovating
a 52,000-square-foot office building on Flint Drive, just west of the industrial building site.
Milwaukee Tool also owns land to the north and west of the office building where it will eventually construct more buildings.
Owned by Hong Kong-based Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd., Milwaukee Tool has grown from just a few hundred employees in Brookfield in the mid-2000s to more than 1,400. Since 2016, it added more than 334,000 square feet of office space to its headquarters campus along West Lisbon Road, just west of North 125th Street.
The expanding company also plans to construct a
27,000-square-foot manufacturing building in West Bend, where it will employ about 100 people to make new-to-market hand tools for electricians and utility linemen.
