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Compuware World Headquarters is located at One Campus Martius

Campus Martius Park

Campus Martius Park is a re-established park in downtown Detroit, Michigan. After the fire of 1805, Campus Martius was the focal point of judge Augustus Woodward's plans to rebuild the city. It is where the "point of origin" of Detroit's coordinate system is located...

, in downtown

Downtown Detroit

Downtown Detroit is the central business district and a residential area of Detroit, Michigan, United States. Downtown is bordered by the Lodge Freeway to the west, the Fisher Freeway to the north, Interstate 375 to the east, and the Detroit River to the south.Downtown contains much historic...

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...

. It began construction in 2000, and finished in 2003. It has at 18 floors in total, 16 above-ground, and 2 below-ground, and has 1088000 square feet (101,078.5 m²) of office space. The high-rise is used as an office building, a restaurant

Restaurant

A restaurant is an establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services...

, retail

Retail

Retail consists of the sale of physical goods or merchandise from a fixed location, such as a department store, boutique or kiosk, or by mail, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser. Retailing may include subordinated services, such as delivery. Purchasers may be...

space for Compuware

Compuware

Compuware Corporation is a software company with products aimed at the information technology departments of large businesses. The company's services also include testing, development, professional services automation, project and portfolio management, cloud-based collaboration and performance...

, and has a fitness center inside, as well as an atrium

Atrium (architecture)

In modern architecture, an atrium is a large open space, often several stories high and having a glazed roof and/or large windows, often situated within a larger multistory building and often located immediately beyond the main entrance doors...

.

The building was constructed in the late-modernist architectural style, using glass

Glass

Glass is an amorphous solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silica plus Na2O, CaO, and several minor additives...

, granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

, and limestone

Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....

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

Kern's

Kern's, or the The Ernst Kern Dry Good Company, was a department store established in Detroit in 1883 by Ernst Kern, who was born in Germany. In 1886, the original store was consumed by fire and was rebuilt at Randolph and Monroe...

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

Greenspace

Greenspace or green space may refer to:* Greenspace or Open space reserve, a land use planning and conservation term used to describe protected areas of undeveloped landscape.* Greenspace, the Natural environment....

until 1999 when Campus Martius Park

Campus Martius Park

began to take shape. Compuware moved its headquarters and 4,000 employees to a newly constructed building on the site in 2003. Quicken Loans

Quicken Loans

Quicken Loans Inc., headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, is the largest online mortgage lender and the 5th largest retail mortgage lender overall in the USA. The company consists of the QuickenLoans.com online lending site, the Rock Financial brand in southeast Michigan, One Reverse Mortgage, based...

joined Compuware in moving its headquarters and 1,700 employees to the building in 2010.

Description

The headquarters facility, completed in 2002, has 16 floors and 1088000 square foot of space. The headquarters facility includes an on-site daycare, a 38000 square foot fitness center, and 55000 square foot of retail space.

Facts

The building's water feature was designed by WET Design, the same people who designed the fountains at Bellagio
Bellagio
Bellagio is a comune in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located on Lake Como. It has long been famous for its setting at the intersection of the three branches of the Y-shaped lake, which is also known as Lario....

and the Winter Olympic cauldron. It features fifteen glass "kites" and, at more than 14 stories tall, represents the largest indoor, hanging water feature in the world.
The building has 280000 square feet (26,012.9 m²) of glass.
A Hard Rock Cafe was opened in late 2003 on the dining level.
The building has the ability to be expanded by 350000 square feet (32,516.1 m²) to the north by filling in the missing "wedge" in the back of the building.
The entire 14th floor includes an outdoor observation deck around the interior.
Like numerous buildings in the Western world, this one does not include a labelled 13th floor.
The top two floors, (15 and 16) house mechanical services exclusively.

Compuware Garage

This 2,200-space parking structure stands 45-meter tall with 12-stories (2 underground floors).
This parking structure includes over 20600 square feet (1,913.8 m²) of retail and office space on its first floor, and a 2891 square feet (269 m²) daycare center on its second level.
The Compuware Garage is home to the Cadillac Center Station on the Detroit People Mover
Detroit People Mover
The Detroit People Mover is a automated people mover system which operates on a single set of tracks, and encircles downtown Detroit, Michigan....

route.

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