Award Description

Design: Eckert Wordell

Contract: Construction Manager

Budget: $25,000,000

Supervision: Todd McDonald, Project Director; Mike Bryant, Project Manager ;and Kristin Goodchild, Project Coordinator

The Miller Canfield Building is a new, multi-story building located in downtown Kalamazoo. The 153,617 square foot building includes a parking structure (two levels below grade, two levels above grade) with four levels of Class A office space, two levels of which are occupied by the law firm of Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone as the primary tenant. Prominent building features include the glass atrium at the face of the building, highlighting the view from South and Rose streets, and use of limestone and granite to disguise the above grade parking levels.

Significant challenges faced by the project team included tight site constraints with a site situated between occupied buildings, a neighboring building under simultaneous construction (the Greenleaf Trust Building renovation) and two prominent, busy downtown streets. Further challenges included significant dewatering and construction of the cast-in-place concrete parking structure through the "dead of winter."