The Mutual Building Rehabilitation

The Mutual Building Rehabilitation. . , "Concretely of the present, it idealizes the past and heralds the future." This phrase used by the Michigan Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Company to describe its new office building upon construction in 1928 became true once again when rehabilitated by The Christman Company in 2008. The Mutual Building served as headquarters to Michigan Millers for 30 years, but had become functionally obsolete through subsequent ownership when purchased by Christman in 2006. A team of experts in historic preservation, construction management, sustainable building, adaptive reuse, and real estate development helped breathe new life into this grand old building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. The building, which now serves as Christman's national headquarters as well as headquarters for other long-term tenants, became the world's first Double Platinum LEED Certified Building in 2008 (for LEED CI and LEED CS), and then the world's first Triple Platinum LEED Certified Building in 2010, with the addition of LEED EB, which was recertified in 2012. Rededicated as The Christman Building in 2008, the Art Deco structure retains its essential historic character and features, blended with modern, high-technology Class A office space. It includes a sixth-floor glassed conference area offering remarkable views of the Michigan Capitol and downtown area. The historic millstones now displayed in the landscape facing Capitol Avenue reflect the building's origins of housing the insurer of the state's grain mills and farmers., Original Building Architects: Pond and Pond, Martin and Lloyd , Restoration Architect and Engineer: SmithGroup , Developer and Construction Manager: The Christman Company.