Building Info
- Address: 1245 N. Broadway
- Taxkey: 3611982000
- Architect:
- Status:
- Assessment: Tax Exempt
- Year Built:
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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Activity
| ID | Date | Type | Description |
| PWEU-19-02273 | 2019/08/30 | Permit | ROW Excavation Utility |
| PWEC-19-02017 | 2019/08/28 | Permit | ROW Excavation City Contract |
| PBFS-19-00871 | 2019/07/30 | Permit | Plumbing-Fire Protection Permit |
| PWEC-19-01523 | 2019/07/02 | Permit | ROW Excavation City Contract |
| PWOP-19-00197 | 2019/02/15 | Permit | ROW Occupancy Permit |
| PBFS-19-00110 | 2019/01/30 | Permit | Plumbing-Fire Protection Permit |
| PBFS-17-00602 | 2017/06/30 | Permit | Plumbing-Fire Protection Permit. |
| ID | Date | Description | Type |
Content referencing Kern Center
Inside The Redevelopment of Viets Tower
MSOE is transforming its oldest residence hall, adding a 13-story addition.
Dec 28th, 2020 by Jeramey Jannene
Viets Tower’s Rise
MSOE redeveloping 1960s residence hall into modern complex accessible to all students.
Dec 4th, 2020 by Jeramey Jannene
MSOE President John Y. Walz, Ph.D. to be inaugurated April 29
Walz is an industry-experienced professional who also is an academic leader.
Apr 25th, 2017 by Milwaukee School of Engineering
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.
Sep 30th, 2016 by Milwaukee Empty Bowls
Pizza Man Is The Place for Wine
The selection is endless and glasses are $5 at its weekday happy hours.
Mar 11th, 2016 by Joey Grihalva
WMSE Heats Up the Town
Annual chili fundraiser attracts nearly 4,000 people, raises $72,000 for radio station.
Mar 7th, 2016 by Michael Horne
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.
Feb 24th, 2016 by WMSE 91.7FM
Comet Still Rocks the House
A fun happy hour, good food, and a rock vibe: they promote and love WMSE.
Feb 19th, 2016 by Joey Grihalva
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.
Jan 26th, 2016 by WMSE 91.7FM
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.
Jan 8th, 2016 by WMSE 91.7FM
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.
Nov 30th, 2015 by WMSE 91.7FM
Martin Building Adds Apartments to Third Ward
Four-story warehouse at 211 N. Broadway is being renovated on ward's main street.
Oct 9th, 2015 by Jack Fennimore
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.
Jul 8th, 2015 by WMSE 91.7FM
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.
Mar 5th, 2015 by Michael Horne
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.
Jun 17th, 2014 by Jeramey Jannene
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"?
Jun 10th, 2014 by Jeramey Jannene
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.
Mar 11th, 2014 by Urban Milwaukee
WMSE 91.7FM Announces Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser Results
The station raised over $60,000 from the event.
Mar 4th, 2014 by WMSE 91.7FM
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
Jan 7th, 2014 by WMSE 91.7FM
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.
Sep 19th, 2013 by Milwaukee Empty Bowls
MSOE Soccer Garage Debuts
MSOE unveils parking garage, athletic field complex.
Aug 25th, 2013 by Michael Horne
How Urban are Marquette, MIAD, MSOE, and UWM?
Milwaukee is lucky to have a number of higher education institutions in its most urban neighborhoods.
Nov 30th, 2010 by Jeramey Jannene
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 […]
Dec 22nd, 2007 by Jeramey Jannene
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.”
Nov 1st, 2004 by Michael Horne
The Governor and the Empire Builder
Governor Jim Doyle made a brief appearance at Milwaukee’s Amtrak station Friday, 11 June on the 75th anniversary of the Empire Builder, Amtrak’s service from Chicago to the Northwest coast. Before boarding the train, Doyle mixed the romance of the rails with the Great American Novel. “In the final passage of the Great Gatsby, the protagonist boarded the train we take today to return to his home in St. Paul,” Doyle told the crowd at the station. Sure enough, Nick Carraway, who found his personality to be “subtly unacceptable to Eastern life,” did hop on the rails to his midwest home at the end of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. Although the Governor’s literary allusions are a welcome change from previous administrations, his history is a bit weak, since Gatsby was published in 1925, some years before the Empire Builder got its name. Certainly railroad nuts will be able to tell us the name of the train Nick Carraway rode, and whether it, indeed passed through Milwaukee. There were plenty of the railroad aficionados at the event at the station, handing out buttons for the Wisconsin Association of Railroad Passengers and unveiling banners asking for increased passenger rail traffic hereabouts. The funny thing about rail fans, is they don’t seem to be the type who you would expect to travel anywhere by any means. They seem to be of the sort that just likes to stand at a station and watch the trains go by. Perhaps I’m wrong. Doyle was met at the station by David Gunn, the president of Amtrak since April 2002. Gunn has formerly run passenger rail systems including the Washington, D.C., the New York City and the Toronto, Ontario rail systems. These are probably the big three on the North American continent. I asked Gunn about the Amtrak Reform Council, the group headed by Paul Weyrich that once included our former mayor among its members. “Oh, they’re dead,” Gunn said. Sure enough, the reform council’s website, which listed “Hon.” John Norquist as a member seems to be inactive. The website was last updated in April 2002. So, apparently everything is fine with Amtrak. After the remarks, which caught some bona fide travelers off guard. (“Who are these men, and why are they giving us a speech?”), Gunn and the mayor hiked to the end of the platform where they entered Gunn’s private car, the “Beech Grove” for the trip. The governor was accompanied by Transportation Secretary Frank Busalacchi. As you remember, Busalacchi missed out on the groundbreaking for the Holton Marsupial Bridge a couple of weeks ago. Why? “Unfortunately, my schedule changed at the last minute and I was unable to attend the groundbreaking. I did have a representative from the Department attend the event in my place. I’m sure that you’ll have continued success in the implementation of this project.” Anyway, as Doyle boarded the platform at the rear of the train and waved to the non-existent crowd (there were cameras present) he said it […]
Jun 14th, 2004 by Michael HorneBuilding data on this page, including assessment information, was last updated on September 6, 2020
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