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Blues plan upgrades to downtown campus.(News)(Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan Inc.)
Crain's Detroit Business, May, 2005 by Smith, Jennette
Byline: Jennette Smith Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan included environmentally friendly and cost-saving features in a planned $40 million upgrade to its downtown Detroit campus. The company plans to raze a five-story parking deck at Congress and Beaubien streets and build a new nine-story parking deck with more than 1,800 spaces at Congress and the I-375 service drive.
The deck will be considered a "green building'' with a roof to be covered in sedum plants. The roof also will have an employee walking path. The roof will be part of a storm water management and landscaping irrigation system, said Ray Warner, director of facilities management for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Water collected will be used to irrigate new landscaping to be planted...
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