Built-in 1892, this brick building has been used for over 100 years for manufacturing. Michigan, like many other states, is in desperate need of affordable housing. Due to this project needing credits for low-income funding, the pricing needed to be aggressive to meet their stipulations for credits, including Davis Bacon wages.
Originally designed with a higher-end product for flooring, River City Flooring and J+J flooring got together and offered an LVT line that saved the project more than $60,000 alone, tremendously helping the approval of the project. Over 30,000sf of J+J LVT was expertly installed over 100s of Uzin’s NC888 patch. Both Tarkett and Roppe base was utilized as well as Tarkett’s stair treads throughout the facility. There are now 5 studio apartments, 50 one-bedroom apartments, 10 two-bedroom apartments, and two 3 bedroom apartments that had immediate applicants. Low income does not mean a low-end design.
Nancy Thiel, founder and principal of Thiel Architecture + Design, is a licensed architect and an interior designer. With 40+ years’ experience working with luminaries in the architecture world, including Michael Graves, Robert A.M. Stern, and Rockwell Group, where she served as a studio leader, Thiel’s extensive portfolio includes single-family homes and multi-story residences, hotels, restaurants, retail, fitness clubs, offices, theaters, schools and shopping centers. She is a member of the AIA, holds NCARB certification and is a LEED accredited professional. Prior to her career in architecture, Thiel was a dancer and choreographer.
Thiel Architecture + Design is an award-winning multi-disciplinary architecture, interior design, planning, and product design firm with offices in CT and NY. The firm’s work focuses on high-end residential design as well as hospitality, contract, and retail projects. Thiel Architecture + Design’s work has been featured in Interior Design, Architype, New York and Connecticut Cottages and Gardens, Connecticut Magazine, Archello, and Fast Company magazines. In 2022, the firm received a Connecticut AIA Excellence award for Interior Architecture. Thiel earned a BA from Penn State University and her Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University.
