Kraemer Design Group has a good problem. The architecture firm has been adding staff so fast it has run out of places to put new hires.
"We are trying to grow," says
Bob Kraemer, principal of
Kraemer Design Group. "We are struggling with the fact that we are out of desks."
The downtown Detroit-based company has hired eight people over the last year and is in the process of bringing two more onboard. Those new hires were primarily arcitects and interior designers, rounding out the firm’s staff at 28 employees and two summer interns.
Kraemer Design Group is now looking to redesign its office to accommodate those new hires. Its
home is in the office space section of the Detroit Opera House parking garage overlooking Broadway Street.
Two factors are prompting this growth: Kraemer Design Group's international work, which consists primarily of hotel designs and carried the company through the Great Recession, and adaptive reuse design work in downtown Detroit. The firm has been handling the design of several major recent projects like the
David Whitney Building rehab and the new home of the Archdiocese of Detroit at 1212 Griswold.
Kraemer Design Group is currently working on several other renovation projects in downtown Detroit, including the old Kresge Department Store at 1201 Woodward and
The Griswold apartments project on top of the Westin Book-Cadillac's parking structure. The firm is also working on the new offices for
Covisint in Southfield.
Source: Bob Kraemer, principal of Kraemer Design Group
Writer: Jon Zemke
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