Milwaukee’s last local malting plant Malteurop North America has sold

An enormous piece of the Milwaukee space’s industrial heritage, and the native brewing trade, has been offered.

The final native malting plant, initially operated by now-defunct Froedtert Malt Corp., closed earlier this 12 months.

Malteurop North America Inc., previously referred to as Worldwide Malting Co., just lately offered the West Milwaukee facility, identified for its towering grain elevators, to an funding group led by Waukesha enterprise operator Tom Beaudry.

The malting plant, 3830 W. Grant St., offered for $900,000, in keeping with newly posted on-line state actual property information.

Beaudry could not be instantly reached for extra details about his plans for property.

He operates Beaudry Providers Inc., which supplies concrete and poured basis companies for residential and industrial development initiatives.

Malteurop North America in June issued a plant closing discover for the West Milwaukee operation.

The corporate mentioned the closing was as a result of financial affect of COVID-19, and was anticipated to eradicate 28 jobs. 

The plant closed in phases from August via January.

It was constructed within the Nineteen Twenties by Froedtert Malt.

Froedtert Malt and different malting corporations had been an enormous a part of Milwaukee’s industrial panorama, supplying malt for Miller Brewing Co., Pabst Brewing Co., Schlitz Brewing Co. and different brewers.

They included the Fleischmann-Kurth Malting facility, 2100 S. Miller Park Approach, West Milwaukee.

Worldwide Malting closed that plant in 2003. It was later demolished, and the positioning now has a Dental Associates dental clinic.

These giant brewers, aside from Miller’s successor, Molson Coors Beverage Co., now not function in Milwaukee.

Whereas Froedtert Malt was offered in 1986, the Froedtert title continues to be well-known via its affiliation with Froedtert Hospital.

Kurtis Froedtert, who operated the family-owned enterprise for many years, helped fund the hospital.

His title surfaced in headlines lately over a courtroom battle centering on how Froedtert Hospital Belief managed cash Kurtis Froedtert offered the belief via his 1951 property.

That dispute was settled in June via the creation of an $11.5 million scholarship fund for College of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Milwaukee Space Technical School college students.

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