Gov award boards FINAL.indd 1 Historic Preservation in direct investment and jobs. the creation of3,825 from New Center the to River. The project represents million $154.8 in neighborhood daily, and anchors acorridor that will drive acreative economy The rehabilitated building now draws people approximately the to 2,000 focused and on art design. housing, aconference center, retail and gallery spaces, and anew charter school includes instructional space for the design and design research programs, student extension Taubman asAlfred known the A. Center for Design Education, which The College for Creative Studies has redeveloped the building as acampus neighborhood. vast space, square comprising is feet, located 760,000 in Detroit’s New Center for the Corporation, whose offices were acrossthe road.The DecoThe Art Argonaut Building originally housed engineering and design studios and SDG Architects and Planners Walbridge, Associates, Inc., College for Creative Studies, Larson Realty Group, The rehabilitationoftheArgonautBuilding,Detroit 5/10/10 8:16AM Gov award boards FINAL.indd 2 Historic Preservation in Michigan press. The Fort Shelbypress. The Fort has resumed that role once again. jobs. Foryears thethan hotel was 2,000 agathering place for members ofthe The project million represents in direct $83 investment and the creation ofmore owners rehabilitated the building as ahotel and rental luxury apartments. of investors. Using Federal and Historic State Preservation Tax Credits, the new The building moldered years for nearly was until it thirty purchased by agroup doorsits in for the 1970s what many people suspected was the last time. accommodations. closing After and reopening several times, the hotel closed Union and Station passenger steamer docks, modern amenities, and elegant openedWhen it in 1917, Shelby Fort Hotel boasted the 450-room alocation near and S. Brinker L. Architects, Hobbs and Black Associates, Inc., S.Emmett Moten, Doreen Hermelin, Quinn Evans Leo D. Phillips, Richard Curto, Eugene M. Curtis, The rehabilitationoftheFortShelbyHotel,Detroit 5/10/10 8:16AM Gov award boards FINAL.indd 7 Historic Preservation in Michigan michigan.gov/shpo Michigan StateHousingDevelopment Authority State HistoricPreservationOffice 2010 Governor’s Award Recipients sector. private the with collaboration and activities planning innovative through resources historic of preservation the to commitment demonstrate who makers policy and buildings, historic preserve to people inspire that projects educational archaeologists, institutions, developers who transform underutilized historic structures into vital economic assets, academic outstanding historic preservation achievements: homeowners rehabilitate who their homes, the Governor’sWith Awards for Historic Preservation, Governor Granholm recognizes $1.2 billion. million indirectan of additional investment for an $632.5 overall economic impact nearly of resulted in private investment in historic building million, leveraging rehabilitations $554.8 of programs credit tax preservation historic federal and state the Michigan2009 In in tool. the use federal of historic and preservation credits state tax is akey economic development want live to Historic and sites other cultural resources are key components communities of where people Governor’s Awards forHistoricPreservation • • • • • •

and SDGArchitectsPlannersfortherehabilitationofArgonaut Building,Det College forCreativeStudies,LarsonRealtyGroup,Walbridge, AlbertKahnAssociates,Inc., of theFortShelbyHotel,Detroit Evans Architects,HobbsandBlackAssociates,Inc.,L.S.Brinker for Leo D.Phillips,RichardCurto,EugeneM.Curtis,EmmettS.Moten, Doreen Hermelin,Quinn rehabilitation of601MartinLutherKing(Witherbee’s Market),Flint Architects, Inc.;KidorfPreservationConsulting;PerryCompton;andDavidWhiteforthe FNIPP, Inc.;theProtogeniaGroup,LLC;SiwekConstruction;Gazall,Lew Window RehabilitationWorkshops The CityofKalamazooandtheMichiganHistoricPreservationNetworkfor Grand RapidsW DeVries Companies,Cornerstone Architects,andPastPerfectfortherehabilitationof Mary PitcherfortherehabilitationofPointBetsieLightStation,Frankfort Mihm Enterprises,Inc.,AmyFerris,CharlesJ.Clarke,andBenzieCounty The FriendsofPointBetsieLighthouse,QuinnEvansArchitects,U.P. Engineers&Architects, ­—a nd those that people rehabilitation The want visit. to historic of buildings through ater FiltrationPlant is &Associates Commissioner therehabilitation roit 5/10/10 8:18AM Gov award boards FINAL.indd 3 Historic Preservation in Michigan DeVries Companies say to you.’ ‘Thank has generated much excitement in the community. residents have City contacted The project represents atotal economic impact ofmore million, than $9 and it aid ofalocal glass artisan repair to or replace more windows. than 550 care during every ofthe step process the ‘do right to thing,’ including enlisting the Using Federal and Historic State Preservation Tax Credits, DeVries Companies took and office spaceknown as Clear Water Place. filtration plant and rehabilitatedit stunning as a mixed use project of apartments DeVries Companies ofGrand Rapids took vacant the city’s ninety-year-old water and Past Perfect DeVries Companies, Cornerstone Architects, The rehabilitation of the Grand Rapids Water Filtration Plant 5/10/10 8:17AM Gov award boards FINAL.indd 4 Historic Preservation in Michigan historic window rehabilitation. homeowners, resulting in33 the certificationcontractors of and24 homeowners in The success workshop ofthe first spawned additional sessionsfor contractors and new businesses. and underemployed contractors. The contractors have new skills, and some started the SHPO, ofKalamazoo the city partnered the MHPN with and trained unemployed During afederal with Local the summer Certified Government of2009, grantfrom needs more professionals who know how repair to existing wood windows. (MHPN),Network and Historic the State Preservation Office (SHPO)that Michigan converged convince to ofKalamazoo, the city the Michigan Historic Preservation The current emphasis on energy efficiency andthe needto re-train workers Preservation Network of KalamazooThe City and the Michigan Historic Kalamazoo Window Rehabilitation Workshops 5/10/10 8:17AM Gov award boards FINAL.indd 5 Historic Preservation in Michigan the goal ofensuring long its term preservation and public access. Collaboration among the many partners continues at the light with station Michigan Lighthouse Project in order complete to the rehabilitation. Historic Preservationthe Office, US BureauLand of Management, andthe among the Friends, Benzie County, the architects, the contractor, the State and three additional outbuildings. The project involved extensive coordination rehabilitation and meticulously restored the exterior and interior lighthouse experiencein with of thecontractors and lighthouse architects hired group The private donations. partnered the raise to county with more than $1.5 million in grant funds and in acquiringCounty the Point Betsie Since Light Station. then the Friends has The Friends ofPoint Betsie Lighthouse organized and assisted in Benzie 2005 Commissioner Mary Pitcher Inc., Ferris, Amy Charles J. Clarke, and Benzie County Architects, U.P. Engineers &Architects, Mihm Enterprises, The Friends of Point Betsie Lighthouse, Quinn Evans The rehabilitation of the Point Betsie Light Station, Frankfort 5/10/10 8:18AM Gov award boards FINAL.indd 6 Historic Preservation in Michigan when private citizens, business, and local and agencies state collaborate. The project is a‘billboard ofchange’ in and Flint exemplifieswhat can happen leading the to creation jobs. of24 Preservation Tax Credits, and represents it an investment ofnearly $1.1 million, Cities ofPromise the Cool help Cities grantwith ofa$135,000 and Historic State The building, which was built as in 1928 aservice was station, rehabilitated groceryfirst Flint in in years.morethan thirty serve the Carriage Town neighborhood and atlarge, the city Witherbee’s is the vacant King Luther Martin for so structure long. that at601 stood Established to Looking atFlint’s Witherbee’s Market today, you would never recognize as it the and David White Kidorf Preservation Consulting; Perry Compton; Gazall, Lewis &Associates Architects, Inc.; Inc.; the Protogenia Group, Siwek LLC; Construction; Flint Neighborhood Improvement and Preservation Project, The rehabilitation of 601 Martin Luther King, Flint 5/10/10 8:18AM