Michigan State Police Headquarters

The Michigan State Police will soon move into a new home in downtown Lansing.

The new headquarters, a five-story, 150,000-square-foot LEED certified building, located on the corner of Kalamazoo Street and Grand Avenue, is slated to be completed this summer and will bring all three State Police posts to Downtown.

Mary Kane-Butkovich, project director at Clark Construction, says the MSP project is a positive. “The MSP building is one of the signature projects that are redefining the landscape of Downtown Lansing,” she says. “We are proud to play a leadership role in this important project that will serve to revitalize our central city by bringing jobs and energy to the Downtown area.”

A similar opinion is heard from Bob Trezise, president and CEO of the Lansing Economic Development Corporation, who says the project is fantastic for Lansing, for a few reasons.

“Number one, we’re getting a beautiful un government-looking building at a key corner of development, where the bus station is. Number two, we’re bringing in 560 people who will now be paying city income taxes, which is a huge benefit. Number three, an enormous amount of people will be buying lunches and shopping downtown; this project is an enormous plus to our retail sector.”

The multi-million dollar project is being funded by a partnership between developer Joel Ferguson and Gary Granger, of The Granger Group. The State will lease the building for 25 years, and after which it will have the option to purchase for $1.

Thomas M. Cooley Law School Library

The Town Center building, located on the corner of Capitol and Kalamazoo avenues, is currently being renovated for a new addition, to make the Cooley Law School law library a total of 85,000 square feet.

The library is projected to be the second largest in the nation (square footage-wise) when completed. The two-story, Wi-Fi equipped, LEED certified building will accommodate the new library, offices, study and lounge areas.

Tim Murphy, assistant vice president of operations at Cooley, says a third of the area will eventually host a garden or other green space. “It will be a major benefit for our students to have a new, modern space to study in,” Murphy says. “Cooley has grown fast over the past ten years this is a needed component.”

Matt McGaughey of Mayotte Group architects is the lead architect on the job. “Lansing Board of Water & Light and the City of Lansing have been helpful and very cooperative,” McGaughey says. “It’s going to be an efficient space and we’re going to have a final product that Cooley is proud of.”

The first and second phases of the three-phase project are expected to be finished by the end of this year.