Location: Walker, MI

Architect: Hobbs + Black

Contractor: Owen, Ames, & Kimball

Square Footage: 185,000

Construction Cost: $50,000,000

The Kent County Road Commission Main Central Complex project will provide a new home for Michigan’s second largest road commission department. The department that serves 635,000 residents had outgrown their old site-constrained facilities, which were almost 100 years old. The new $50-million complex will sit on a 29-acre site in Walker and consist of: a 135,000 square-foot vehicle parking and maintenance garage; a two-story 25,000 square-foot administration/office building; an 18,500 square-foot storage building; a 6,000-ton salt barn; and a vehicle wash building. Design work was done in two phases, to speed the start of construction. The project broke ground mid-2021 and is scheduled to be complete early 2023.