Verne Barry Place

Byce & Associates, Inc.

Low-income housing project with 72 new apartment units and a parking ramp component. This renovation of an existing building consists of 8 commercial retail units in Grand Rapids’ downtown development district. It is slated for LEED Certification with 8% MBE / WBE / DBE Participation.

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Pioneer Construction

Low-income housing project with 72 new apartment units and a parking ramp component. This renovation of an existing building consists of 8 commercial retail units in Grand Rapids’ downtown development district. It is slated for LEED Certification with 8% MBE / WBE / DBE Participation.

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Allied Electric Inc

There can be a noticeable difference between building a building and building a home – not necessarily in terms of materials or man-hours, but in terms of heart. And when the home you’re building is designed for those who have no real home of their own, nor the means to obtain one, the construction process takes on weightier connotation. A team from Allied Electric was part of the renovation crew on the $19-million Verne Barry Place complex, a development project offering studio apartments for the homeless and disabled in Grand Rapids. Shannon Sullivan, Allied’s project manager on the downtown enterprise, recalls that the electricians appreciated working on a project that would provide dwellings for those down on their luck. “Especially being in that environment every day, seeing people who were less fortunate than us – it made us feel good, made our guys thankful that we had what we had,” he observes.

Allied’s contribution included all apartment space as well as street-level retail areas. The rehabilitation venture, complicated considerably by layers of modifications from earlier eras, combined 72 units from the Dwelling Place Inn and 44 units fashioned from three old rooming houses. Reproducing the structure’s historical demeanor proved challenging, according to Sullivan. “In order to restore the historical look and feel of the building, we had to fish existing plaster walls or get creative with conduit routing. By doing this, we minimized the amount of surface raceway during the restoration.” An earlier renovation had also closed the three-story building’s open courtyard interior; crews now removed the added ceilings and replaced the original skylight, allowing the use of daylight harvesting. Sullivan is satisfied, not only with the charitable nature of the project, but its final appearance. “Now it’s beautiful,” he concludes.

Exxel Engineering

EXXEL ENGINEERING provide construction staking of the building with grades and building pilings, utility extensions and skywalk.