A dedication ceremony will be held for Zilber Park at the former Pabst brewery complex in downtown Milwaukee.
A dedication ceremony will be held this morning for a small urban park, called Zilber Park, which is part of Milwaukee-based Zilber Ltd. founder Joseph Zilber‘s redevelopment project of the former Pabst brewery complex in downtown Milwaukee.
Zilber is transforming the 20-acre former Pabst complex into a mixed use urban neighborhood called The Brewery.
The park is located along the west side of North 10th Street, just south of the Boiler House building, a three-story structure that has been redeveloped by Charles Trainer and Max Dermond into an office building, which is now occupied by Inland Companies, Albion Group Architects and AMB Development Group LLC.
The park will be cared for by a new neighborhood improvement district created for The Brewery. It was designed by D.I.R.T., a Charlottesville, Va.-based landscape architecture firm.
At today’s dedication ceremony statues of Joseph Zilber and his wife Vera Zilber will be unveiled. The statues were designed by Koh Varilla Guild of Chicago.
The park’s other features include a Gabion wall constructed of recycled steel, fractured granite boulders and water and lighting fixtures. It will provide a waterfall in summer and an ice sculpture in the winter. The park also has a crushed granite walking surface and a storm water retention basin underground.
Funds for the park were provided by Zilber, a Wisconsin Preservation Fund grant and storm water management funding by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewerage District (MMSD) and the City of Milwaukee.
