(The following text is from Marketing & Communications. The Times staff was on Spring Break when this news broke last week.)
MATC broke ground (Thursday) on our new athletic and training facility, which will be housed in Fieldhouse Flats, a $110 million mixed-use development and workforce housing project located in the Deer District at the corner of North Vel R. Phillips and Juneau avenues. Fieldhouse Flats is a shared-use facility co-developed and co-owned by the Milwaukee Bucks and J. Jeffers & Co.
Participating in the ceremony were:
- Dr. Anthony Cruz, MATC President
- David Crowley, Milwaukee County Executive
- Cavalier Johnson, Mayor of Milwaukee
- Joshua Jeffers, Founder and CEO of J. Jeffers & Co.
- Michael Belot, SVP of Business Operations and Chief Real Estate Development Officer, Milwaukee Bucks
- Milele Coggs, Milwaukee District 6 Alderwoman
- Elmer Moore Jr., Executive Director, Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority
- Josh Perlmutter, Vice President, R4 Capital Funding
In addition to MATC’s shared-use athletic and training facility, Fieldhouse Flats features 269 workforce apartment units, 40,000 square feet of commercial space and a 278-stall parking garage. Take a sneak peek at Fieldhouse Flats.
The athletic and training facility will feature a 28,000-square-foot double-court gymnasium that seats up to 1,000, a fitness center, locker rooms, concessions, meeting rooms and other amenities to primarily serve MATC’s fitness and health programs and athletics, including women’s basketball, men’s basketball and women’s volleyball. It will also provide state-of-the-art training facilities for all students and staff.
Construction is expected to take approximately two years and will be completed in phases. The first phase will center on the commercial space and our leased athletic facilities expected in Fall 2027.
