Office & Workplace
Monroe North Workplace
Confidential · Grand Rapids, MI
- Sector
- Office & Workplace
- Size
- 94,000 sq ft
- Value
- $41M
- Duration
- 22 months
- Delivery
- Integrated Project Delivery
- Architect
- Concept Design Studio
A speculative office shell converted mid-construction into a single-tenant headquarters without losing the delivery date.
It started as a speculative shell. In month nine the developer signed a single tenant who wanted the core exposed, which turned a concrete structure nobody would ever see into the finished surface of the lobby.
Concrete you cannot fix afterwards
Board-formed concrete is unforgiving. There is no patching a visible face, so the pour either comes out right or it comes out again. We built a full-scale mock-up wall on site, poured it three times with different form-release regimes, and did not touch the real core until the tenant had signed off on a panel in daylight.
