Milwaukee Bucks release new arena renderings, target groundbreaking this summer

Let's just call it "The Beer Barrel."If 2015 was all about figuring out a way to finance a new downtown Milwaukee arena, 2016 is expected to be about something much more fun: actually building it.

The Bucks released a series of new renderings of their proposed downtown arena today, part of the final design package being submitted for city approval. Naturally everything looks cool and futuristic, though that's not to say it doesn't have a distinctly...Milwaukee feel to it.

This new Bucks arena render looks kind of like a beer barrel on its side, to which I say PERFECT pic.twitter.com/Snb0POgPcR

— Frank Madden (@brewhoop) March 17, 2016 I propose @brewhoop's suggestion as the unofficial new name…