All it took to get Crow on the phone and flying out to Milwaukee was an Instagram direct message. Godsey sent her an Instagram DM saying “Hey, we can get you that Khris Middleton jersey.” She responded within 15 minutes, and a conversation started. Crow and her two sons attended a few Milwaukee Bucks playoff games including Game 4 of the NBA Finals, and frequently posted to Twitter about her support for the team.
Peter Feigin Rumors
Milwaukee Bucks president Peter Feigin told AM-1250 The Fan on Monday afternoon that the Deer District is expanding, adding another five acres of area for standing spectators during Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night.
The area is adjacent to two vacant lots, including one to the south where the Bucks’ former home, the Bradley Center, once stood. But it’s a lot to the north of the arena (across Juneau Avenue between Juneau and McKinley) that will apparently be used for the additional 15,000 fans, upping the total accommodation to 35,000 to 40,000 people.
To meet the demands for labor created by the highly attended NBA Finals home games, the Milwaukee Bucks are busing in hundreds of workers from Chicago and are actively recruiting from Minnesota and Iowa. That’s according to Bucks president Peter Feigin during the Milwaukee Business Journal’s Flash Forum Tuesday, who said the team is problem-solving both a massive labor shortage and the “largest event in the Midwest for these few days.”
Feigin said other Wisconsin sports teams, including the Milwaukee Brewers and the Green Bay Packers, are helping the Bucks find the employees necessary to staff Fiserv Forum – which will be packed with 17,000 fans inside, and at least 20,000 fans outside in the plaza.
The Milwaukee Bucks’ journey to the NBA Finals created what Bucks and Fiserv Forum president Peter Feigin called a “ripple effect.” Not only is there the short-term impact with a packed capacity of 17,000 inside Fiserv Forum and crowds of 20,000 in Deer District, but Feigin said it goes much deeper, creating a destination for future seasons. “This is our moment to really have a platform and create a commercial for the city of Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin and certainly the Bucks brand,” Feigin said in the Milwaukee Business Journal’s Flash Forum Tuesday.
The Bucks already announced a new nine-story, 205-room hotel in the Deer District, The Trade Milwaukee, an Autograph Collection Hotel by Marriott. The boutique hotel, which will line the north sidewalk of Juneau Avenue between Vel R. Phillips Avenue and a newly built Fifth Street, is expected to open in early 2023. Feigin added the team has plans to build a commercial building and residential options in the future. It’s about creating density in the area, he said.
