One Campus Martius is a building located in

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. 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 of office space. The high-rise was built as an

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with a

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units, space for

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and a fitness center, as well as an

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. The building now has Rocket Mortgage,

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and

as its major tenants. The building was constructed in the late-modernist architectural style, using

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and

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as its main materials. AIA Detroit's Urban Priorities Committee rated the building's entry as one of the top ten Detroit interiors.

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 Campus Martius Park ( ') is a re-established park in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. After the fire of 1805, Campus Martius (from the Latin for ''Field of Mars'', where Roman heroes walked) was the focal point of Judge Augustus Woodward's plans t ...

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. Plante Moran followed suit with a lease agreement in 2013, deciding to move 75 employees to the building. 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

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'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. 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 .

Description

The headquarters facility, completed in 2002, has 16 floors and of space. The headquarters facility includes an on-site daycare, a fitness center, and of retail space.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 of retail and office space on its first floor, and a daycare center on its second level. The One Campus Martius Garage is home to the Cadillac Center Station on the

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route.

Gallery

File:Compuware HQ on Cadillac square.jpg, Compuware World Headquarters with

Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument The Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument is a Civil War monument located in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. This example of civic sculpture stands in a prominent location on the southeast tip of Campus Martius Park, where five principal thorough ...

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,

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sign on the outside of Compuware World Headquarters for the park File:BagleyMemorialFountainDetroit.jpg, Compuware World Headquarters near

Cadillac Square Campus Martius Park ( ') is a re-established park in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. After the fire of 1805, Campus Martius (from the Latin for ''Field of Mars'', where Roman heroes walked) was the focal point of Judge Augustus Woodward's plans to ...

File:For Those Who Gave All....jpg, Compuware World Headquarters facing the

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