This project provides 83 high-quality, affordable housing with first-floor retail. Restoring this historic warehouse addressed challenges with buckling floors, failing foundations and each of the five buildings built at different elevations. Through close communication with the trade contractors and the structural engineer, a plan was created to stabilize and re-support the building. This process included shoring beams around individual columns, removing the columns, removing the existing foundations, installing helical piers, installing new foundations and re-installing original columns.

More than 648 helical piers we required for support, with the length of drilling totaling 3.44 miles. The building also required 8 tons of shoring, 30 tons of channel, 560 feet of rod ties, 1,408 tons of concrete placed for pile caps, 17.61 tons of resteel for pile caps and 35.26 tons of resteel for structural slabs. Together with trade contractors, suppliers and municipalities, Rockford delivered a successful and complex project in 16 months.