Service Area

Commercial contractor in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Office, lab-adjacent and research-park build-outs, downtown retail along Main and State, and commercial maintenance for Washtenaw County property owners: for projects worth the drive, and we'll tell you when it isn't.

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Working in Ann Arbor

A different economy, an hour west

Ann Arbor's commercial market doesn't look like the rest of our territory. The university and the hospital system anchor it, which fills the office stock with research groups, med-tech and software companies, professional practices and startups: tenants whose build-outs lean toward conference density, collaborative floor plans, acoustic separation and IT infrastructure rather than corner offices. The research and light-industrial parks on the south and east sides carry the flex and office work; downtown along Main, Liberty and State it's retail and service storefronts in dense, older buildings.

Let's be straight about geography, since this is a page about a city we don't live in: Ann Arbor is about forty-five minutes from our Madison Heights shop, and it's a different county with its own building department. For a build-out, a renovation, or a maintenance program with real scope, that's a non-issue: crews mobilize and stay. For a single small ticket, an Ann Arbor contractor will beat us on response time, and we'll say so rather than take the job and disappoint you on it.

Services in Ann Arbor

What we do here

Office Build-OutsResearch, tech and professional space→ Retail Build-OutsMain, Liberty and State storefronts→ Multi-FamilyApartment renovation and turns→ Commercial DrywallAcoustic and rated assemblies→ Commercial PaintingOccupied-space repaint programs→ Commercial RoofingFlat-roof repair and replacement→ Commercial FramingPartitions, soffits and structure→

Office tower facades in the business district

Quiet is a specification here

Research and professional tenants care about sound more than most. Open collaboration areas next to focus rooms, exam or consult rooms that need real privacy, equipment that hums: all of it is a drywall and framing problem before it's an interiors problem. Insulated STC assemblies, resilient channel, double-layer board, full-height partitions and sealed penetrations do the work; specifying them everywhere wastes money and specifying them nowhere produces a floor nobody can concentrate on. We mark up the plan wall by wall.

Schedules here also bend around the academic calendar: a lot of owners want disruptive work compressed into breaks or summer. Tell us the window at bid time and we'll build the sequence around it.

Project team working around a conference table

FAQ

Ann Arbor questions, answered straight

Ann Arbor is 45 minutes away: does that cost me anything?

On a real build-out or renovation, no: crews mobilize and stay on site, so the drive is our problem, not a line on your invoice. On a one-hour service call, distance is real and a local contractor will respond faster: we'll tell you that instead of taking the ticket.

Do you handle Washtenaw County and City of Ann Arbor permitting?

Yes: permit package, plan review and inspections through the city's building department, with trade permits coordinated under the same contract. Different county, same process on our side.

Can you build around the academic calendar?

Yes. Compressing disruptive work into breaks or summer is a scheduling problem, and scheduling is what a general contractor is for. Give us the window at bid time and the sequence gets built around it.

Do you do lab or research space?

We build the shell, partitions, finishes and coordination around specialty equipment; highly specialized lab fit-outs with process gas, fume hoods or containment need specialist trades, which we'd bring in or defer to depending on scope. We'll tell you at the walkthrough which category your project is in.

Building in Ann Arbor?

Send the scope. If we're the right contractor for it, we'll prove it in the bid, and if we're not, we'll say so.

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