ANNOUNCEMENT BREWING ON PABST

Towne Investments plans a major announcement this morning at 11 a.m. in the second floor of the Empire Building, 710 N. Plankinton Av. The subject is the Pabst Brewery. Joe Zilber, the 88-year old founder and chairman of the Milwaukee-based real estate empire was seen on the street yesterday morning, walking with an aide who was showing him some changes being made to the riverfront facade of the Empire Building, the corporation's headquarters.
Further upstream, Mike Mervis, the special assistant to Zilber, says work is complete on the triangular garden he and his wife Mary Ellen have donated to the city.
"We tested the irrigation system yesterday, and it works," Mervis said of the extensive landscaping he sponsored at the southwest approach of the Holton Viaduct, just north of Mervis' Honeymead Warehouse residence on the Milwaukee River, the southernmost riverfront single-family home. We'll catch up with Mervis and Zilber in a bit, and get back to you later with the Pabst Brewery news.
--Michael Horne