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We’re calling it! The Marcus Center snow pile is gone

March 26, 2025

Even though spring has been pretty shy about making its presence fully known here in Milwaukee so far, apparently it has been nice enough outside to do some serious damage to a certain snow pile. That's right, ...

Let’s vote on when the Marcus Center snow pile will melt this year (2025 edition)

Matt Wild

February 24, 2025

Hey! Guess what? It's time to vote on when the Marcus Center snow pile will melt THIS year! You know the pile. It's that big snow pile in downtown Milwaukee, at 929 N. Water St. The one on the side of the Ma...

Developer proposes tallest mass timber building in world, tallest building in Wisconsin for iconic snow pile site

Matt Wild

July 24, 2024

The iconic Marcus Performing Art Center parking garage snow pile, beloved by millions of Milwaukeeans and diligently documented every winter and spring by us, may be on its way out. Permanently. Long-simmeri...

Milwaukee Record’s 2024 State of the Snow Pile

Matt Wild

March 11, 2024

Folks, it's been a strange year for the Marcus Center Snow Pile. We've diligently kept watch on the big pile of snow that forms on the east side of the Marcus Performing Arts Center's parking structure—the p...

Okay, let’s vote on when the Marcus Center snow pile will finally melt this year

Matt Wild

April 24, 2023

Honest question: Will this winter ever end? We're a week away from May and, save for that one stretch where it was 80 degrees for some reason, the last month has been nothing but 40-degree days and 30-degree ni...

Get in the winter spirit with our new “Snow Pile” T-shirt

Milwaukee Record Staff

January 4, 2023

If you read Milwaukee Record with any regularity (or follow us on social media), chances are you've encountered more than a few pictures of a certain downtown snow pile. Yes, we've been tracking this ever-fluct...

Let’s also vote on when the Marcus Center snow pile will melt this year

Matt Wild

April 5, 2022

It's spring, it's April, and it's Election Day, which means only one thing: IT'S TIME TO VOTE ON WHEN THE MARCUS CENTER PARKING STRUCTURE SNOW PILE WILL MELT THIS YEAR. You know it and love it. It's the big ...

When will the Marcus Center parking structure snow piles melt THIS year?

Matt Wild

January 6, 2021

Back in spring 2019, we asked a perennial Milwaukee question: When would the big snow piles on the sides of the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts parking structure, 929 N. Water St., finally melt? We kept t...

UPDATE: That Marcus Center snow pile is still hanging on

Matt Wild

April 23, 2019

On April 9, we took some pictures of that big snow pile on the side of the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts parking structure and guessed when the sucker would finally melt. April 20, we predicted. So how ...

Let’s guess when that big snow pile on the side of the Marcus Center parking structure will finally melt

Matt Wild

April 9, 2019

The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts has been in the news a lot lately. Back in December 2018, the 50-year-old institution announced plans to revamp its downtown campus. Soon after, folks cried foul at the...

Take a ride with Piles and watch the “Be The Way” music video

Tyler Maas

May 5, 2023

After what seems like a year of cold, wet, windy, rainy, snowy, and predominately gray conditions that were basically just a cruel continuation of winter, it seems as if spring is finally here...on the fifth da...

Marcus Performing Arts Center piles 7 great shows into 2022-2023 Broadway season

Tyler Maas

March 30, 2022

Milwaukee's famed Marcus Performing Arts Center has it all: A snow pile! Two rapidly-spinning advertising cubes! An upcoming "Weird Al" Yankovic concert! World-class musicals! Though the multi-faceted venue abl...

Pro snowboarders ride Milwaukee, talk about a “realllllly bad Airbnb”

Matt Wild

March 15, 2021

This article was originally published in 2021. Ever watch a new snowboarding video for the first time in, oh, about 15 years and think, "Damn. They're pulling off some crazy shit these days. This rules." Wel...

Milwaukee alderwoman proposes pilot program to “put residents to work with snow removal cleanup”

Matt Wild

February 3, 2021

Hot (cool?) on the heels of yesterday's news of two Milwaukee aldermen calling the city's snow removal efforts "simply unacceptable," comes news of a Milwaukee alderwoman with a snow-removal plan. Alderwoman...

Two Milwaukee aldermen call city’s snow removal efforts “simply unacceptable”

Matt Wild

February 2, 2021

It snowed a lot over the weekend. It's gonna snow some more in the next few days. Who removes all that snow? Milwaukee's Department of Public Works. Is the DPW doing a good job at snow removal? Well, according ...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (June 4-17, 2025)

Matt Wild

June 18, 2025

broadstreet.zone(154824); Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...

Spring into spring with another round of Trivia By Milwaukee Record

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 3, 2025

broadstreet.zone(170477); In the mood for some trivia? In the mood for some Milwaukee trivia? Then you've come to the right place! It's another round of Trivia By Milwaukee Record! Thanks to our friends at ...

South Shore Terrace will open for the season on April 9

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 31, 2025

Spring has truly sprung. The weather is showing signs of being okay, Nite Owl is back in business, and the Marcus Center snow pile is doomed. Oh, and the South Shore Terrace beer garden (2900 South Shore Dr.) i...

Milwaukee made $559K from those darn electric scooters in 2024

Matt Wild

January 29, 2025

The last time we heard from the Milwaukee Department of Public Works on the issue of those darn electric scooters, the city had netted nearly $500,000 from the things. Now, at the beginning of 2025, the DPW has...

10 Milwaukee names that are easy to get technically wrong

Matt Wild

January 27, 2025

In our semi-regular Tracklist feature we round up a bunch of Milwaukee things and present them in list form. Do people still enjoy lists? Yes? Well, enjoy! What's in a name? A sense of self, a sense of ident...

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