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Michigan Veterans Foundation
Project Information
- Project Location:
- Detroit, MI
- Status:
- Completed
- Structure Type:
- Hospital / Nursing Home
References
- Owner:
- Michigan Veterans Foundation
- Architect:
- Hobbs + Black
Scope Of Work
Michigan Veterans Foundation (MVF), a non-profit organization, needed to relocate their facilities quickly when Olympia Development purchased their headquarters in the city’s Cass Corridor to make way for the state-of-the-art Little Caesars Arena and Wayne State University business school.
The MVF quickly purchased a triangular group of properties totaling 5.5 acres, from the Detroit Public Schools which required rezoning.
The project consisted of a 46,000-square-foot, ground-up construction. The one-story facility was designed in a pentagon-shaped design. Programming included 124 single occupancy rooms; squad rooms, which house four veterans per room; a full-service kitchen and mess hall, with the ability to be transformed into a banquet hall for weddings and events; other spaces such as a computer lab, library, chapel, and museum.