Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Building

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Building (600 E. Lafayette Blvd. Detroit, MI 48226) is a skyscraper near the Renaissance Center complex in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It is also known as the Blue Cross Blue Shield Service Center. It was constructed in 1971, and stands at 22 floors. The building was constructed in a sunken plaza. It houses Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. The campus in downtown Detroit also includes offices for 3,000 employees at Towers 500 and 600 of the Renaissance Center linked by the Detroit People Mover.

Famous quotes containing the words blue, cross, shield and/or building:

    “Little Boy Blue,
    Come blow your horn,”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. Little Boy Blue (l. 1–2)

    “I’d take off all my clothes
    & cross the damp cold lawn & down the bluff
    into the terrible water & walk forever
    under it out toward the island.”
    —John Berryman (1914–1972)

    “Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.”
    —Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

    “Our civilization is characterized by the word “progress.” Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only as a means to this end, not as an end in itself. For me on the contrary clarity, perspicuity are valuable in themselves.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)