One Campus Martius

{{short description|Building in downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox building

| name = One Campus Martius

| image = Compuware Building.jpg

| start_date = 2000

| completion_date = 2003

| building_type = office

| location = 1050 Woodward Ave
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

| coordinates = {{coord|42.3327|-83.0464|region:US-MI|display=inline,title}}

| roof = {{convert|232|ft|m|abbr=on}}

| top_floor = {{convert|216|ft|m|abbr=on}}

| antenna_spire =

| floor_count = 15 (+2 underground)

| owner = Bedrock Detroit

| floor_area = {{convert|1088000|sqft|m2|sigfig=2}}

| elevator_count = 24

| architect = Rossetti Associates, Hamilton Anderson Associates, WET Design

| website =

}}

One Campus Martius is a building located in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It began construction in 2000 and was finished in 2003. It has seventeen floors in total, fifteen above-ground, and two below-ground, and has {{convert|1088000|sqft|m2|-5}} of office space. The high-rise was built as an office building with a restaurant, retail units, space for Compuware and a fitness center, as well as an atrium. The building now has Rocket Mortgage, Microsoft, Meridian Health, Plante Moran and Compuware as its major tenants.

The building was constructed in the late-modernist architectural style, using glass, granite and limestone as its main materials. AIA Detroit's Urban Priorities Committee rated the building's entry as one of the top ten Detroit interiors.AIA Detroit Urban Priorities Committee, (1-10-2006).[http://www.modeldmedia.com/features/lookinside.aspx Top Ten Detroit Interiors]Model D Media

History

The building sits on the Kern Block which was once home to the Kern Department store. The store had existed in some form or another on this site since 1900. The last incarnation of the store was demolished in 1966, and the area remained greenspace until 1999 when Campus Martius Park began to take shape. Compuware moved its headquarters and 4,000 employees to a newly constructed building on the site in 2003. Quicken Loans agreed to a five-year lease agreement to move its headquarters and 1,700 employees to the building in 2010.Quicken Loans to Move Headquarters, 1,700 Employees to Downtown (7-13-2009).[http://www.quickenloans.com/press-room/2009/quicken-loans-move-headquarters-1700-employees-downtown-detroit-mid2010]Quicken Loans Plante Moran followed suit with a lease agreement in 2013, deciding to move 75 employees to the building.Plante Moran to open Detroit office in the Compuware building (6-6-2013).[http://www.plantemoran.com/about/media/2013/Pages/plante-moran-to-open-detroit-office-in-the-compuware-building.aspx]Plante Moran

In 2006, a banner commemorating the Stanley Cup victory of the Carolina Hurricanes, owned by Compuware CEO Peter Karmanos, was raised on the building's exterior.{{Cite web |date=2006-06-21 |title=Fun style, few fans |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2006/jun/21/fun-style-few-fans/ |access-date= |website=The Spokesman-Review}}

Compuware's presence in the building has lessened as it has downsized during the 2010s, and the company now has around 800 employees in the building. The building was sold in a joint venture to Dan Gilbert's real estate group Bedrock Real Estate and Meridian Health for $142 Million in November 2014. As part of the deal Quicken Loans took an additional floor bringing its space in the building to 300,000 sq. ft. Meridian moved 700 team members into the building in spring 2015 with 1700 employees expected by the end of the year.{{cite news|title=Gilbert's Bedrock, Meridian Health to buy Compuware building in Detroit|url=http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20141117/NEWS/141119795/gilberts-bedrock-meridian-health-to-buy-compuware-building-in|work=Crain's Detroit Business|date=November 17, 2014}}{{cite news|title=Meridian Health plans move to Compuware building|url=http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20150614/NEWS/306149980/meridian-health-plans-move-to-compuware-building|work=Crain's Detroit Business}} Compuware's remaining employees will stay in the building.

There has been some construction in the late 2010s to fill in the missing "wedge" at the north of the building, expanding it by over {{convert|300000|sqft|m2}}.{{cite news| title=Bedrock Detroit Releases Renderings of One Campus Martius Expansion|work=Detroit Free Press|publisher=freep.com|date=January 16, 2020|author=Bisma Parvez| url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/01/16/one-campus-martius-renderings-bedrock/4486863002/|access-date=August 22, 2022}}

Description

The headquarters facility, completed in 2002, has 16 floors and {{convert|1088000|sqft|sqm}} of space. The headquarters facility includes an on-site daycare, a {{convert|38000|sqft|sqm}} fitness center, and {{convert|55000|sqft|sqm}} of retail space."[http://www.compuware.com/about/headquarters.asp Corporate Headquarters]." Compuware. Retrieved on January 7, 2010. The lobby contains what is said to be the world's tallest indoor water sculpture.

Parking garage

This 3,000-space parking structure stands 45-meter tall with 12-stories (2 underground floors). This parking structure includes over {{convert|20600|sqft|m2|-1}} of retail and office space on its first floor, and a {{convert|2891|sqft|m2|0|adj=on}} daycare center on its second level. The One Campus Martius Garage is home to the Cadillac Center Station on the Detroit People Mover route.

Gallery

File:Compuware HQ on Cadillac square.jpg|Compuware World Headquarters with Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument and Woodward Fountain

File:CompuwareBldgSmokersViewupwards.jpg|Right outside entrance, looking upwards

File:Detroit December 2019 11 (One Campus Martius interior).jpg|Atrium waterfall

File:CompuwareHQAtruim2.jpg|Atruim waterfall by elevators

File:CompuwareHQAtruim1.jpg|Light enters from above to illuminate hanging glass sculpture

File:CompuwareHQ3.jpg|Interior glass looks on to atrium

File:HardRockCafesignfromCampusMartuisdetroit.jpg|Hard Rock Cafe sign on the outside of Compuware World Headquarters for the park

File:BagleyMemorialFountainDetroit.jpg|Compuware World Headquarters near Cadillac Square

File:For Those Who Gave All....jpg|Compuware World Headquarters facing the Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument

References

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Further reading

  • {{Cite book | author=Sharoff, Robert | author-link=Robert Sharoff | title=American City: Detroit Architecture | publisher=Wayne State University Press | year=2005 | isbn=0-8143-3270-6}}