On a stretch of downtown Kalamazoo where construction, restoration, and new momentum are starting to overlap, the Lofts at Ironworks (a/k/a Ironworks), is turning the page from long-term project to lived-in place.
Trisha Kidd, PlazaCorp’s director of project management, has been closely involved in the coordination that brings projects like Ironworks from concept to completion, including working through the public-private pieces that often make adaptive reuse possible.
Ironworks is a new mixed-use development in downtown Kalamazoo, bringing 82 brand-new apartments online across three distinct historic structures. That mix of different eras under one roof is both the defining feature and the central challenge, says Kidd…