RDV/Christman Michigan Street Development
The RDV/Christman Michigan Street Development is an integrated series of mixed-use buildings constructed along the north side of Michigan Street spanning between Division Avenue to Coit Avenue. It is a $250 million project that is jointly owned by RDV Corp. and The Christman Company, collectively known as Michigan Street Development, LLC. Several properties were acquired by the partnership: a State of Michigan surface parking lot, the Towers Building, an aboveground parking structure, a private practice medical building, and a Burger King. All of these are to be razed in preparation for the new facilities. Numerous tax incentives allowed financing of the development to become finalized.
The design of the facility includes a four-story, 2,300 space underground parking structure with four buildings built on the top levels. The four buildings will have approximately 740,000 square feet (69,000 m2) of space and will create approximately two thousand new jobs.
The project is scheduled to be completed in two primary phases.
Phase I consists of:
- Demolition of the Burger King, surface parking lots, aboveground parking structure, and medical office.
- Mass excavation and an earth retention system at the east and west thirds of the site.
- A parking structure below grade from Division Avenue to Bostwick Avenue and just east of Bostwick Avenue to Coit Avenue.
- Michigan Street Tunnel connecting the Butterworth Campus to the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital and the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion.
- Tower 25 - seven-story medical office building.
- A pedestrian bridge connecting the parking structure to the Van Andel Institute.
- Construction of the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion and the Michigan State University Secchia Center College of Human Medicine.
Phase II consists of:
- Demolition of the Towers Building and surface parking lot.
- Mass excavation and earth retention at the center third of the development.
- Tower 35 - seven-story medical office building including lab space located at 35 Michigan Street NE.
- A pedestrian bridge connecting Tower 35 to the Butterworth Campus and the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital.
- A food court located between Tower 25 and Tower 35.
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