New bar-restaurant coming to former Jackson’s Blue Ribbon Pub space at The Brewery

A new beer-centric bar and restaurant, called On Tap, will soon open in the former Jackson’s Blue Ribbon Pub space at The Brewery District in downtown Milwaukee.

The operator behind On Tap is Oregon, Wisconsin-based real estate development firm Gorman & Co., which owns the historic North 10th Street building — part of the former Pabst Brewery complex — and its hotel tenant, the Brewhouse Inn & Suites.

Jackson’s Blue Ribbon closed in September 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For Gorman, the decision to take over the space and develop its own gastropub concept was a no brainer, said Robert Sikkila, the company’s director of food and beverage....
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