Secret Service Eyes Pabst Building For Milwaukee Office
Plans show secure fourth-floor space with evidence vault, firearm storage and prisoner processing area.
Photo taken May 23rd, 2016 by Jeramey Jannene. All Rights Reserved. — Pabst Professional Center
The U.S. Secret Service is preparing to open an office in The Brewery District near Downtown.
A recently filed building permit application identifies the federal law enforcement agency as the future tenant of approximately 5,000 square feet on the fourth floor of the Pabst Professional Center, 1036 W. Juneau Ave.
Plans submitted to the city describe the space as a Secret Service “branch office.”
The proposed layout includes cubicles, private offices and meeting rooms, along with specialized spaces for prisoner processing, firearm storage and an “evidence vault.”
“Floor plan has been disabled from public access. This is a secure structure,” says a Department of Neighborhood Services report.
The interior buildout is expected to cost $610,000, according to the permit application.
It is unclear whether the new office would replace the Secret Service’s existing downtown location or serve as an expansion of the agency’s Milwaukee operations. A representative of the General Services Administration, which manages federal real estate, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Milwaukee field office is currently in the Milwaukee Federal Courthouse, 517 E. Wisconsin Ave. The agency previously had an office in 330 Kilbourn.
The Secret Service has a dual mission. In addition to protecting the president, vice president, their families, former presidents, visiting foreign leaders and major national events, the agency investigates crimes targeting the nation’s financial and payment systems. Its investigative work includes counterfeiting, financial fraud and cyber-enabled crimes, often in partnership with local, state and other federal law enforcement agencies.
The Pabst Professional Center is a 41,000-square-foot office building on the former Pabst Brewing Co. campus. It was completed in 2014 by Blue Ribbon Management.
The four-story office building, which overlooks Interstate 43, was designed by RINKA. It is one of several new buildings interspersed among redeveloped former brewery buildings.
The fourth floor of the Pabst Professional Center was previously occupied by Klement’s Sausage as its corporate headquarters. The company relocated its offices to the Tannery complex in the Walker’s Point neighborhood in 2024.
A resurrected Pabst Brewing Company briefly had an office in the building and a brewery across the street.
The permit request indicates that Madisen Maher Architects is leading the office’s design. KVG Building Corporation is listed as the project’s general contractor.
Other tenants in the building, according to occupancy permits, include Huntington National BAnk and Energy Services, Inc.
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