The Milwaukee Brewers have been providing followers of professional baseball in the Cream City an outlet for their fandom for going on 50 years now. But beginning in 2019, Milwaukee-area residents have a new local nine competing professionally to root for on the county’s south side.
Mike Zimmerman, owner of ROC Ventures and The Rock Sports Complex in Franklin, has been working to bring another professional baseball team to the Milwaukee area going back the past several years. City officials approved $25 mil of public funding for his “Ballpark Commons” project back in 2016 and crews finally broke ground on the site last June, beginning construction on the new 4,000 seat baseball stadium as part of a larger, $125 mil development that will include businesses and retail shops, apartments, and a golf facility, among other active lifestyle features.