Milwaukee, WI
2025 NFL Draft: Milwaukee looking to cash in on tourism
Milwaukee cashing in on NFL Draft
The 2025 NFL Draft is in Green Bay later this month and will bring big league crowds to Wisconsin. Some of those people and their money will be stopping right here in Milwaukee.
MILWAUKEE – The 2025 NFL Draft is in Green Bay later this month and will bring big league crowds to Wisconsin.
Some of those people and their money will be stopping right here in Milwaukee. Local businesses hope for a big catch of tourism.
What we know:
Last year, Meghan Miles, owner of City Tours MKE, opened Station 1846 in the Walker’s Point neighborhood. Now she’s getting ready to welcome visiting football fans.
“I hope to see many tourists and great success for Milwaukee and for our business,” Miles said. “We are looking to have people coming to Station, grabbing drinks, enjoying the environment here at Station, but then also taking our NFL tour that we designed particularly for that week.”
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The backstory:
And going back in time to showcase Milwaukee’s NFL history, which includes the Green Bay Packers. One of the stops on this NFL Draft tour in Milwaukee is where the Packers played some of their games: County Stadium.
“For them to pay the bills, and stay afloat, they started scheduling games in Milwaukee,” City Tours MKE guide Dave Rusch said. “I love telling the story of County Stadium and just how archaic it was and how bad it was from a football fan’s perspective, to be watching a football game on a baseball field.”
Organizers expect 200,000 people will huddle in Green Bay for the 2025 draft. And with all those people, they expect the whole state will see some green.
Dig deeper:
Visit Milwaukee says hotels are seeing a spike in bookings for the week of the draft.
“So how much of that $100 million pot can we get? That’s what we’re focused on,” Visit Milwaukee chief marketing officer Josh Albrecht said. “Knowing that our occupancy numbers are trending up, that’s a good sign that it’s going to be a good chunk.”
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Hotels are now 60% booked and that number is expected to go up.
“We know there’s not enough rooms in green bay to accommodate all the fans and all the players and all the nfl officials and everything,” he said.
Milwaukee tourism leaders say they’re ready for the crowds as during the draft weekend, the city looks to score some green and gold.
Visit Milwaukee says past drafts showed large crowds coming from within a six-hour drive from the draft location. A lot of those people will be driving right through Milwaukee, or staying overnight.
The Source: The information in this post was produced by FOX6 News.
MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee Police Department requested the public’s help to find 11-year-old Sir’Charles Bason, a critically missing boy who was last seen near Teutonia and Kiley at around 6:20 p.m. on Saturday, April 18.
Police described Bason as 4 feet, 5 inches tall with a slim build, brown eyes and black, low-cut hair. He was last seen wearing a gray jacket with green lines, dark-colored jeans, tan sandals and carrying gray Nike Jordan shoes.
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What you can do:
Anyone with information on Bason’s whereabouts is asked to call Milwaukee Police District 4 at 414-935-7242.
The Source: The Milwaukee Police Department released information.
MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee man, previously named one of Wisconsin’s Most Wanted, has been sentenced to prison for shooting and killing his cousin in 2020.
In court
What we know:
A Milwaukee County jury found 39-year-old Brandon Gladney guilty of first-degree reckless homicide and possession of a firm by a felon earlier this year.
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Judge Michelle Havas sentenced Gladney to 29 years in prison on Friday, April 17. He was granted credit for more than a year’s time served and further sentenced to 14 years of extended supervision.
Arrested in Arizona after years on the run, court records show Gladney has also been ordered to pay the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office more than $1,800 for extradition costs.
Homicide investigation
The backstory:
The shooting happened in May 2020. Investigators said Gladney was captured on video apparently arguing with the victim, his cousin, outside a Milwaukee convenience store near 21st and Meinecke.
“It’s all on video, and it’s devastating for that family,” the marshal on the case told FOX6 when Gladney was profiled on Wisconsin’s Most Wanted. “You have a family member that shot and killed another family member.”
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Prosecutors said Gladney walked away but then returned with a gun pointed directly at the victim and shot him. The victim died from his gunshot wounds at a nearby hospital. Multiple bullet casings were found at the scene.
Gladney went on the run for years. He was arrested in Arizona in January 2023, years after he was charged.
The Source: FOX6 News referenced information from the U.S. Marshals Service, Wisconsin Circuit Court and prior coverage.
Brice Turang slides to home plate to score during a game between the Miami Marlins and the Milwaukee Brewers on April 17. (Photo by Chris Arjoon/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
MIAMI – Garrett Mitchell went 2 for 4 with three RBIs including a two-run double in the 10th inning and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Miami Marlins 7-5 on Friday night.
By the numbers:
Miami’s Calvin Faucher (1-2) entered a 4-all game in the 10th and walked Gary Sánchez with Brice Turang on second. Jake Bauers hit a single to load the bases.
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Luis Rengifo reached first on a throwing error by second baseman Xavier Edwards, allowing Turang to score. Mitchell followed with his double.
The Marlins scored one run in the bottom of the 10th when Jakob Marsee came home on Trevor Megill’s wild pitch. Megill settled in for his fourth save.
Coleman Crow, who made his debut on the mound for the Brewers, threw 77 pitches over 5 1/3 innings. He threw four strikeouts, gave up two earned runs and a walk.
The right-hander was 2-0 with a 4.07 ERA in two starts with the Brewers’ Triple-A affiliate in Nashville. He missed part of the 2023 season and all of 2024 after undergoing Tommy John surgery.
The Brewers scored three runs in the fourth inning. With the bases loaded, Mitchell hit an RBI single, Bauers scored on a forceout at first and Rengifo scored on a throwing error by catcher Agustín Ramírez.
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Miami’s Otto Lopez hit a triple to center field in the fourth and scored on a sacrifice fly by Owen Caissie. Lopez hit a two-run homer in the sixth to pull Miami within 4-3 and Ramírez doubled in the eighth to tie the game at four.
Abner Uribe (1-0) earned his first win of the season, coming on in the ninth inning.
Marlins third baseman Graham Pauley left the game in the seventh inning with right oblique discomfort after spinning out of the way of a pitch.
What’s next:
The Brewers and Marlins continue their 3-game series on Saturday, with Brandon Woodruff (1-0, 4.36 ERA) taking the mound for Milwaukee and Sandy Alcantara (2-1, 2.67) for Miami.
The Source: The Associated Press provided this report.
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