Bradley Symphony Center

Through the creative efforts of developers, architects, contractors, and consultants, and cooperation with city staff, the historic Warner Grand Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has been rehabilitated into a new performance and administrative home for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. To help generate the equity needed to convert the theater into the Bradley Symphony Center, Ryan’s Historic Tax Credits team consulted on $10.6 million in federal historic tax credits and $13.3 million in state historic tax credits for the nearly $100 million project’s rehabilitation work.

The building, with its 2,431-seat theater and its 13-story office block, was designed by the noted Chicago-based theater architects Rapp & Rapp for Warner Bros. Theaters, the exhibition division of the Warner Bros. film studio. The theater opened to the public in May 1931 and operated as one of Milwaukee’s largest movie theaters for more than six decades.