High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pabst Brewery Complex in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the former brewery of the Pabst Brewing Company. The facility was closed in 1997. On August 16, 2006 the brewery complex was purchased by Joseph Zilber`s investment group Brewery Project LLC for $13 million to create The Brewery, a renovated complex for residential, office, and retail use. The former Pabst Brewing Company Former Corporate Office Building Visitor`s Center have been reopened as "Best Place," in reference to the brewery`s founders Jacob Best and Phillip Best, and feature an antiques gift shop, Blue Ribbon Hall and the "Little Tavern on the Hill." Enclosed by the building are two courtyards, one of which houses a statue of Captain Frederick Pabst. A statue of King Gambrinus, the unofficial patron saint of beer, used to be displayed in the other courtyard, but was taken away when the brewery was shut down in the mid-1990s. The King Gambrinus sculpture was loaned back to the complex by the Pabst Corporation after a lengthy negotiation period on May 21, 2011.