Each project had to involve at least one firm with a CREW member, says Beth Lilley, the award committee chair and first vice president with Bank One Commercial Real Estate in Detroit. The winners will receive their awards at a Sept. 30 luncheon at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills.

Compuware World Headquarters, the 1.14-million-sf global headquarters of Compuware Corp., won in the new development category. The property includes corporate offices, a child development center and a nine-story parking structure. It also includes street-level retail, with Michigan's first Hard Rock Cafe and the first Borders Books & Music store in the city of Detroit. Judges said it "represents one of the most significant economic events to impact the CBD by bringing 4,000 employees to Detroit." Rossetti, the project's Southfield-based architect, submitted the entry.

200 River Place Lofts, a residential loft renovation of a 1903 pharmaceutical warehouse that sat vacant on the Detroit River for more than 20 years, won in the redevelopment category. It involved repair and stabilization of the structural system while preserving and exposing key visual elements, like heavy timbers, masonry walls, original steel doors and tension cables, the judges say.

"Revitalization of mature downtowns starts with rehab of lofts," one judge noted. Construction manager Huntington Construction of Southfield submitted the entry.

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