Sign up for March 31 webinar: ‘Bringing Mass Timber to Lumbertown: Adelaide Pointe’s Muskegon Lake Vision’
If you’re interested in mass timber construction, don’t miss an upcoming conversation about a planned development in Muskegon that will feature mass timber buildings.
Sandra Lupien, director of MassTimber@MSU, will facilitate a discussion featuring developers Emily and Ryan Leestma and architect Jason Korb:
Emily and Ryan Leestma are developing Adelaide Pointe, a 30-acre, former industrial site on Muskegon Lake, to include a marina, boat storage, restaurants, retail, apartments and 400 condos, using an overall sustainable approach that includes mass timber construction for most of the buildings.
Korb, the Adelaide Pointe architect, also is behind Milwaukee’s 25-story Ascent Tower, the tallest mass timber building in the world.
Innovative construction method is sustainable
Mass timber construction allows for large and tall structures using engineered wood. These buildings often go up faster than traditional construction and use renewable materials.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources will break ground later this year on mass timber building to house its field office and customer service center in Newberry in the eastern Upper Peninsula.
