The employees are scheduled to move out of the building and into a new 16-story, $350-million headquarters building in Downtown Detroit starting this fall, says DougKuiper, Compuware corporate communications manager.
"We hope to have a grand opening when all the employees move in sometime during the summer of 2003," Kuiper says.
He tells GlobeSt.com the company is taking bids for their current offices, and have received six bids so far. He would not elaborate on who bid, or how much the company is seeking for the property.
"It has 188,000 sf of office space, and 48,000 sf of day care and fitness space," he explains. "It can be used for a single tenant, and was even planned for multi-tenant use."
The 15-year-old building is located on Northwestern Highway, just south of Middlebelt Road.
Compuware held a steel-topping celebration for their new building last week.
"We had about 4,000 employees sign a 16,000 pound steel arch, and we all watched as they hoisted it atop the building," Kuiper says. He adds Bristol Steel completed the project within eight months, with 8,700 tons of steel.
The company's new headquarters is just part of the new Campus Martius development in Downtown Detroit. The new development will offer office space, hotels, restaurants, covered parking, retail and entertainment space. A two-acre community park will also be located at the site.
Kern Woodward Associates, awarded the project by the city, consists of a partnership of Schostak Brothers & Company, Sterling Group, and Melvin Butch Hollowell (a Detroit activist and partner in the law firm of Butzel Long).
The following components make up the Campus Martius project:
* Above the present Kennedy garage will be a 15-story office building.
* The Hudson Block features a 12-story Class A office building. A world-class hotel is proposed for the Farmer Street side of the block opposite the existing Downtown Library.
* The location for Compuware Corporate Headquarters is the Kern Block, a 1.2-million-sf facility that will occupy a significant portion of the new Campus Martius.
The Crowley Block will contain the parking needed to accommodate the CompuWare World headquarters, along with street level retail space. Monroe Block includes a building with 12 floors of class A office space, along with retail and entertainment space in this high profile corner of Campus Martius.
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