Cornerstone Architects

Hagerty Classic Insurance Company’s newest facility is located on one of the last remaining vacant sites in downtown Traverse City. Assuring the highest and best use for this site while enhancing the street scape was a key task for the project team. Situated next to an existing five-story condominium, the building gestures toward its neighbor and creates a continuity of scale and materials while at the same time significantly improving the pedestrian environment. The design emphasizes the pedestrian scaled character of downtown Traverse City and stretches the current urban fabric from the Front Street shopping district to the newer developments south along Cass Street. Canopies and large glass windows engage the design with the street level, creating a transparency between interior and exterior.

Inner City Christian Federation will be relocating their headquarters to the newly renovated building, providing meeting rooms and interactive learning environments, as well as enhancing staff synergy as program and administrative staff work side by side. Restored and reoccupied the building will extent the vision of the original donor, D.A. Blodgett. ICCF’s service for homeless persons and inadequately housed families in Grand Rapids will continue the legacy of a wonderful “Home for Homeless Children”.