Arcade bar planned for former Comedy Cafe building on Brady
The former Comedy Café building on Brady Street could become a new arcade bar and restaurant. Des Moines, Iowa residents Joshua Ivey and Sam Summers are planning to open Up-Down MKE at 615 E. Brady St. Inside of Up-Down in Des Moines taken from Facebook page. The two have filed a liquor license with the city of Milwaukee and plan on opening the bar in February. Ivey started Up-Down in 2011 in Des Moines. He has since expanded to Minneapolis and Kansas City. According to its website , the bar features more than 40 arcade games from the 1980s and 1990s, pinball machines, skee-ball, Nintendo and Sega console gaming , life-size Jenga and connect four. All games are 25 cents. The bar also boasts “an extensive craft beer selection with 20 beers on tap and even more bottles and cans, as well as ‘80s and ‘ 90s inspired cocktails .” Ivey said he chooses his next location by going to cities and looking for a solid young professional base . He found that in Milwaukee. “Ideally we want 25- to 40...