Building Info

Kern Center

The Kern Center is an athletic and wellness complex owned by the Milwaukee School of Engineering. The center was majority funded by a donation from Robert and Patricia Kern.

In 2013, the MSOE Athletic Field and Parking Complex opened across E. Knapp St.

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PWEU-19-022732019/08/30Permit
ROW Excavation Utility
PWEC-19-020172019/08/28Permit
ROW Excavation City Contract
PBFS-19-008712019/07/30Permit
Plumbing-Fire Protection Permit
PWEC-19-015232019/07/02Permit
ROW Excavation City Contract
PWOP-19-001972019/02/15Permit
ROW Occupancy Permit
PBFS-19-001102019/01/30Permit
Plumbing-Fire Protection Permit
PBFS-17-006022017/06/30Permit
Plumbing-Fire Protection Permit.
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Content referencing Kern Center

Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser Returns For 22nd Year

Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser Returns For 22nd Year

Featuring more than 40 restaurants and caterers to raise funds for WMSE radio station.

WMSE’s 22nd Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser Set For April 7 at MSOE Kern Center
MSOE Conservatory Opens in Historic Duplex

MSOE Conservatory Opens in Historic Duplex

New music conservatory housed in former residential duplex on E. Juneau Ave.

Entertainment: Packed Weekend of Fun Starts With Milwaukee Day
Entertainment

Packed Weekend of Fun Starts With Milwaukee Day

Plus: Frozen at the Marcus Center, chili at the Kern Center and LEGOs at the Expo Center.

Eyes on Milwaukee: MSOE Agrees To Voluntary Tax Payments On New Knapp St. Building
Eyes on Milwaukee

MSOE Agrees To Voluntary Tax Payments On New Knapp St. Building

It will be home to construction management, civil and architectural engineering programs.

MSOE Buys Homeland Security Building

MSOE Buys Homeland Security Building

University will use 22-year-old office building for unspecified academic use.

Eyes on Milwaukee: MSOE Will Open Music Conservatory In Historic Duplex
Eyes on Milwaukee

MSOE Will Open Music Conservatory In Historic Duplex

University repurposing 118-year-old, Juneau Ave. house at northern edge of its campus.

WMSE’s 21st Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser to be held Sunday, April 16 at MSOE’s Kern Center
Eyes on Milwaukee: MSOE Building Women’s Softball Stadium
Eyes on Milwaukee

MSOE Building Women’s Softball Stadium

The university is also adding five new women's sports, and making a push to diversify student body.

Entertainment: WMSE’s Annual Chili Cookoff
Entertainment

WMSE’s Annual Chili Cookoff

Plus, an annual Blues festival, Charlie Berens at the Riverside, Milwaukee Comic Con and more.

WMSE’s Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser is BACK!
Press Release

WMSE’s Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser is BACK!

Sunday, April 10 at MSOE’s Kern Center

Now Serving: New Mexican Restaurant Opening
Now Serving

New Mexican Restaurant Opening

Plus: new Central American-style brunch. And Tenuta's on Howard closing.

Eyes on Milwaukee: Inside The Redevelopment of Viets Tower
Eyes on Milwaukee

Inside The Redevelopment of Viets Tower

MSOE is transforming its oldest residence hall, adding a 13-story addition.

Friday Photos: Viets Tower’s Rise
Friday Photos

Viets Tower’s Rise

MSOE redeveloping 1960s residence hall into modern complex accessible to all students.

MSOE President John Y. Walz, Ph.D. to be inaugurated April 29
Press Release

MSOE President John Y. Walz, Ph.D. to be inaugurated April 29

Walz is an industry-experienced professional who also is an academic leader.

Milwaukee Empty Bowls All Grown Up! Organization Celebrates 18 Years Raising Funds for Local Hunger Relief on Oct. 9
Press Release

Milwaukee Empty Bowls All Grown Up! Organization Celebrates 18 Years Raising Funds for Local Hunger Relief on Oct. 9

Since 1999, Milwaukee Empty Bowls has donated $637,630 to help feed those in need in the Milwaukee area.

Happy Hour: Pizza Man Is The Place for Wine
Happy Hour

Pizza Man Is The Place for Wine

The selection is endless and glasses are $5 at its weekday happy hours.

Plenty of Horne: WMSE Heats Up the Town
Plenty of Horne

WMSE Heats Up the Town

Annual chili fundraiser attracts nearly 4,000 people, raises $72,000 for radio station.

WMSE’s Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser a Week Away
Press Release

WMSE’s Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser a Week Away

This is a great day for the whole family. Proceeds from this event go to support your favorite radio station WMSE.

Weekly Happy Hour: Comet Still Rocks the House
Weekly Happy Hour

Comet Still Rocks the House

A fun happy hour, good food, and a rock vibe: they promote and love WMSE.

Milwaukee Fire Department, La Salsa De Los Muertos and Musician Kevin Fayte added to Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser’s Line-up
Press Release

Milwaukee Fire Department, La Salsa De Los Muertos and Musician Kevin Fayte added to Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser’s Line-up

The WMSE Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser takes place Sunday, March 6, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the MSOE Kern Center, 1245 N. Broadway.

WMSE is turning 35 and singing the birthday blues
Press Release

WMSE is turning 35 and singing the birthday blues

WMSE starts singing the blues on Friday, March 25 when they host legends The Siegel–Schwall Band at the Turner Hall Ballroom with hometown icons The R&B Cadets.

WMSE’s 14th Annual Rockabilly Chili tickets to go on sale, Monday, Nov. 30
Press Release

WMSE’s 14th Annual Rockabilly Chili tickets to go on sale, Monday, Nov. 30

WMSE’s Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser is a chili competition that pits over 50 Milwaukee restaurants, cafes and caterers against one another to determine the city's best chili.

Friday Photos: Martin Building Adds Apartments to Third Ward
Friday Photos

Martin Building Adds Apartments to Third Ward

Four-story warehouse at 211 N. Broadway is being renovated on ward's main street.

WMSE Launches the First Ever Record Ruckus
Press Release

WMSE Launches the First Ever Record Ruckus

To take part in the Record Ruckus it’s $5 any time after 11 a.m. at the door but should you want to attend the early bird preview it’s $20.

Plenty of Horne: Will Bicycle Race Expand to Bay View?
Plenty of Horne

Will Bicycle Race Expand to Bay View?

Tour of America's Dairyland hopes to expand there. And a national benefits program for bicyclists expands to Milwaukee.

Eyes on Milwaukee: MSOE Renames Soccer Field
Eyes on Milwaukee

MSOE Renames Soccer Field

Kovac wonders why MSOE would name it after its current president. And why an engineering school couldn't dig a deep enough hole for its soccer field.

Eyes on Milwaukee: Finally, a New Park East Plan
Eyes on Milwaukee

Finally, a New Park East Plan

Ten years later, the city and county are finally on the same page. Is development in the area ready to "explode"?

Photo Gallery: Let Them Eat Chili
Photo Gallery

Let Them Eat Chili

12th Annual Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser is best in history, raising $60,000, and providing a lot of fun, as our photos show.

WMSE 91.7FM Announces Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser Results
Press Release

WMSE 91.7FM Announces Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser Results

The station raised over $60,000 from the event.

WMSE 91.7FM Hosts 12th Annual Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser
Press Release

WMSE 91.7FM Hosts 12th Annual Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser

Fundraiser Expands to Two Levels, Adds Milwaukee Fire Department Partnership, Chili Pepper Races, and Growing Children’s Area

15th Annual Milwaukee Empty Bowls Event Celebrates Artists and Chefs While Raising Funds for the Hungry
Press Release

15th Annual Milwaukee Empty Bowls Event Celebrates Artists and Chefs While Raising Funds for the Hungry

Milwaukee Empty Bowls will host its 15th Annual Milwaukee Empty Bowls event on Sunday, October 6, 2013, Noon – 4 p.m. at the Kern Center on the Milwaukee School of Engineering Campus.

MSOE Soccer Garage Debuts

MSOE Soccer Garage Debuts

MSOE unveils parking garage, athletic field complex.

How Urban are Marquette, MIAD, MSOE, and UWM?

How Urban are Marquette, MIAD, MSOE, and UWM?

Milwaukee is lucky to have a number of higher education institutions in its most urban neighborhoods.

Gould Takes Journal Buyout, Rips Grohmann Museum One More Time

Gould Takes Journal Buyout, Rips Grohmann Museum One More Time

Whitney Gould took an early retirement buyout from Journal Communications a little over a month ago.  Her send off column was titled “Retiring, not tiring of quality design.” Ever since moving to Milwaukee three years ago I’ve enjoyed her reporting on issues involving building design. My views began to disagree with hers when she started to question the restoration of the former check processing center on the corner of Broadway and State St into the Grohmann Museum, a museum dedicated to the showcasing of men (and women) at work throughout time, at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). I began to wonder if she cared that the new Grohmann Museum would finally build a book-end for the MSOE campus with the Kern Center, rehab an underused and unattractive building downtown, and build a transition piece from Milwaukee City Hall north to the Kern Center and Park East neighborhood.  Add to that the fact that the financing was entirely provided by Eckhart Grohmann.  In fact Robert & Patricia Kern and Eckhart Grohmann deserve nothing but admiration and applause for their commitment to producing well-rounded engineers in downtown Milwaukee. To be fair, Whitney Gould does address some of the these facts and does give a fair amount of praise to Grohmann for his contribution.  I do disagree with her on a few things though. Her appraisal of the building as a cheap impersonation of the style of a bygone era is lacking in insight.  One needs to only walk from City Hall, past the Grohmann Museum, and to the Kern Center to see the bridge the museum forms between the past and present architectural styles.  Unlike many other bland glass buildings in many other cities, Grohmann and the architects at Uihlein Wilson created something distinctly Milwaukee and distinctly MSOE.   The building meshes perfectly with the Kern Center both inside and out thanks to Uihlein Wilson designing both buildings, and forms a southern book end of the MSOE campus on Broadway to match the Kern Center’s north anchor position.  MSOE should be praised for finally developing a physical identity, especially while both Marquette and UWM expand theirs in a much more public fashion. She, along with other members of the art community, also seem to take offense that no one that works at the museum has true art credentials.  Speaking as someone who has been in the museum many times, the artwork is displayed just as it in any museum and curator John Kopmeier is just as qualified to discuss the content of the collection as anyone with an art degree. My final point of disagreement with Gould is over her obsession with the Nazi art work in the collection.  She seems to hold this belief that the Nazi-attachment to the artwork is hidden from viewers, it’s not.  It is not outwardly stated that “hey, this painting could contain Nazi slaves”, but if you ask someone they will tell you.  They will also tell you that the paintings featuring Egyptians might contain slaves […]

The Roundup: Mequon Turns Voter Away
The Roundup

Mequon Turns Voter Away

The City of Mequon told a local man who tried to register and vote at City Hall last week that he was “too late.”

The Roundup: The Governor and the Empire Builder
The Roundup

The Governor and the Empire Builder

 

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