Team Facilities
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The Bradley Center
The Bucks Training Center
THE BRADLEY CENTER
1001 North Fourth Street
Milwaukee, WI 53202
(414) 227-0500
Bradley Center's Homepage
Home sweet home… that's how the 2007-08 Milwaukee Bucks refer to the Bradley Center for the 20th straight season! As it enters its 20th Anniversary season, the Center is still considered one of the finest arenas in the country. The 20,000-seat sports and entertainment facility opened on October 1, 1988. The $91 million structure was a gift to the Milwaukee community and State of Wisconsin from the late Jane Bradley Pettit and her husband, Lloyd, in honor of her father, Harry Lynde Bradley. Mr. Bradley was one of the founders of the Allen-Bradley Co., a national manufacturer of electrical controls headquartered in Milwaukee (now a subsidiary of Rockwell International).
Located in downtown Milwaukee, the Bradley Center covers more than one square city block and rises to a height of 13 stories. The exterior is clad in polished and flame-treated granite, with the same materiel used in the pedestals for the columns in the twin glass-enclosed, 60-foot-high signature atriums.
The Center is extraordinarily fan-friendly, with wide, open concourses, multiple concessions and merchandise locations, and 28 large restrooms. The arena provides three levels of fan seating accommodations, including the private suite concourse, which is located just 30 feet above floor level while still allowing for over 7,200 fans to remain below.
Club Cambria, at Bradley Center Suites, is Milwaukee's most unique sports experience. This club, located on the north end of the suite level, provides the ultimate setting for interacting with guests and enjoying Bucks basketball while indulging in the style and comfort of this private environment.
Courtside Club offers the ultimate in quality service in a relaxing atmosphere, amidst the thrills of NBA action! Courtside Club Lounge including a bar, lounge area with flat screen TVs and restrooms, private coat check and more. Courtside Club members also benefit from in-seat food and beverage service as they enjoy the game.
Behind the scenes, the latest in computerized and electronic equipment controls the security, communications systems and interior environment for the facility. State-of-the-art electronics and interior circuitry assist the media in covering events at the Bradley Center. As many as four television stations are able to telecast simultaneously from any of three locations in the arena. In addition, members of the media may transmit as well as receive information within the building though multiple sources.
In addition to the Milwaukee Bucks, the Bradley Center is also home to the Marquette University Men's Basketball team and the Milwaukee Admirals professional hockey team. The Center regularly hosts a variety of other extraordinary entertainment events including concerts, figure skating and family shows.
The Bradley Center was designed by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum of Kansas City, Missouri, and Venture Architects, which was a joint venture between the Milwaukee architectural firms of Kahler Slater, Torphy Architects and the Zimmerman Design Group.
ACCOMODATIONS FOR THE DISABLED
Each Bradley Center entrance is equipped with an electronic door opener operated by a touch pad.
Parking for guests with mobility limitations may be found in the Bradley Center parking structure at Sixth Street and Highland Avenue. These spaces are located on the first and third levels. Doors may be operated by electronic touch pads.
Oversized vehicles (more than 6’9” in height) with “disabled” license plates or stickers may park in designated spaces located north of Lobby A (access via Fourth Street). All guests using these spaces to park are required to follow the instructions of Bradley Center Parking Services personnel.
Two of the four Bradley Center Ticket Office windows open for daily sales are equipped with a “pass through” drawer system that is wheelchair accessible. Bradley Center Ticket Office hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday; 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday; and two hours prior to game times on Sunday. Non-season hours vary.
The Bradley Center Administrative Office is equipped with a TDD (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf). Call (414) 227-0445 to receive event information or to place a ticket order.
16 platforms, located throughout the Bradley Center, accommodate wheelchairs and folding chairs, and allow patrons with mobility limitations and guests to sit together. Seating is limited to two tickets per order. Seats, located next to these platforms, are also available on a limited basis. Tickets for most events are available at the Bradley Center.
Short-term parking is available at the northeast corner of the Bradley Center’s property (Fourth Street, north of Highland Avenue) for the purchase of tickets during regular business hours. Only the spaces parallel to Fourth Street with signage indicating this purpose are available for use.
All concession stands have counter space accessible for wheelchair approach.
Women’s and Men’s restrooms are located at all four corners of both the 200 and 400 Levels of the building. All 28 restrooms have wheelchair accessible facilities. Couples requiring a “co-educational” lavatory may request use of the First Aid Room restroom, located at the north end of the 200 Level.
All drinking fountains are wheelchair accessible. Drinking fountains are located on the concourse outside each restroom.
Limited wheelchair transport service to and from entrances to seating can be made available. If you would like this service, please call (414) 227-0797 to make advance arrangements.
Elevators for guests with mobility limitations are located in both the Inner East and Inner West lobbies. Both elevators travel to all floors of the building and are staffed with operators during events. Controls are wheelchair accessible.
All telephones are wheelchair accessible. Public telephones are located at all four corners of both the 200 and 400 Levels, as well as the lobbies.
For the Hearing and Visually Impaired:
Bucks fans attending home game in the Bradley Center are able to listen to game broadcasts of Ted Davis, the “Voice of the Milwaukee Bucks”, on their personal radios. The Bradley Center, in an effort to aide hearing and visually impaired patrons, installed a radio transmitter in the building at the outset of the 1993-94 campaign. While the system was designed to aid the hearing and visually impaired, all fans can enjoy the benefit. Any patron bringing an FM radio and tuning to 105.1 FM will be able to listen to the entire broadcast of the game from their seat. Programming on the frequency begins approximately one hour prior to each home game.
The Bradley Center also has a number of portable “belt-pack” AM/FM radios and headsets as well as teleloops available at the Administration Office located on the north side of the outer east atrium. Teleloops are collar-like devices that plug into radios and allow hearing impaired patrons with a “T” coil or “T” switch on their hearing aids to receive the signal in their hearing aids without removing them.
In order for a patron to check out a radio at the Bradley Center Administration Office, a valid driver’s license is required for deposit.
DIRECTIONS & PARKING
Arriving In Town
Major highways leading into Milwaukee include I-94, I-43 and Highway 41. The city is about 75 minutes from Madison, 90 minutes from Chicago, two hours from Greey Bay and six hours from the Twin Cities. The main airport serving Milwaukee is General Mitchell Field, about 20 minutes south of the Bradley Center.
Directions to the Bradley Center
Coming from the south or MItchell Field Airport: Take I-94 west (north) to the I-43 intersection, then go north
on I-43 to the Kilbourn/Civic Center exit. Go to the second stoplight and make a left onto North Fourth Street. The Bradley Center is two blocks on your left.
Coming from the north: Take I-43 south to the North Avenue exit. Turn slightly left onto N. Halyard St. Turn right onto 6th Street. The Bradley Center is 1/2 mile down on the left.
Coming from the west: Take I-94 east to the Civic Center, James Lovell exit. From James Lovell, turn right onto W. Wells St. Make a left onto N. Fourth Street. Bradley Center is three blocks ahead on the left.
Parking
During Bradley Center events, on-site parking for the media is unavailable. There are several parking garages and surface lots within easy walking distance of the building, including the city’s structure on the corner of Fourth Street and Highland; the Hyatt Regency’s structure on the corner of Fourth Street and Kilbourn; the structure on the corner of Sixth Street and Highland and Sixth and Wells; and the parking lot across from the Federal Building off of Fourth Street, just south of Wells.
The Bradley Center was designed by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum of Kansas City, Missouri, and Venture Architects, which was a joint venture between the Milwaukee architectural firms of Kahler Slater, Torphy Architects and the Zimmerman Design Group.
Bradley Center's Homepage
THE BUCKS TRAINING CENTER
3501 South Lake Drive, Suite 100
Milwaukee, WI 53235
In September of 1997, the Milwaukee Bucks went state-of-the-art when they moved their basketball operations into a 35,000 square-foot wing of the Archbishop Cousins Center in St. Francis, WI.
The Milwaukee Bucks Training Center, designed by Schroeder and Holt Architects, provides the team with a first-class, year-round facility dedicated to the athletic enhancement of Bucks players. Construction, improvements and equipment were completed at a cost of nearly $3 million. In 10 years since, continued upgrades have made the facility one of the finest in the NBA.
The gym features a running and spring track, which encircles a regulation 94’ x 50’ basketball floor, with six additional baskets to accommodate shooting drills. Just off the court are spacious locker room and training room facilities, a recreation lounge, a hydrotherapy room and a 42’ x 36’ weight and conditioning room. The Bucks also have access to a full-length swimming pool that is adjacent to their headquarters.
The building also houses a video editing system, meeting rooms and office space for the player personnel and public relations departments, as well as the entire Bucks coaching staff.
In the summer of 2006, the facility experienced a major makeover that coincided with the team’s new logo and colors. The makeover was highlighted with the completion of a new practice court that mirrors the design the team uses for games at the Bradley Center (seen below).
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