Global Power Components’ planned expansion has taken another step forward with a company affiliate buying the West Milwaukee development site. The company in May disclosed plans to convert the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s former printing plant into a manufacturing site with around 1,000 jobs.
The effort was detailed in a June 24, 2025 story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. According to the story:
A Global Power affiliate, Cyberdyne LLC, bought the 40-acre property, at 3825 and 4101 W. Burnham St., West Milwaukee, for $17.5 million, according to a deed posted by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue on June 23.
The site was sold by an affiliate of New York-based Alden Global Capital LLC − an investment firm that owns newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune. The Alden affiliate bought the site from Gannett Co. The Alden affiliate bought the site in 2022 for $26 million from Gannett Co., the Journal Sentinel’s corporate parent. Alden’s apparent plans to use the facility to print the Chicago Tribune didn’t materialize.
Gannett closed the production facility as a cost-savings move − eliminating 180 jobs. The newspaper is now printed at a Gannett plant in Peoria, Illinois.
Global Power plans to renovate the 476,316-sq. ft. building and construct a 230,000-sq. ft. addition to provide more manufacturing space. The company hopes to begin constructing the addition in spring 2026 − after a cleanup of the site’s contaminated soil is approved by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
