Project Description:
Tooles Contracting Group, LLC has transformed an 1887 building formerly the home of Brown Brothers Cigar Manufacturers into the home of LEAR Corporation’s Innovation & Design Studio located at 119 State Street, in a brick, six-story mid-rise building in downtown Detroit’s Capitol Park.
The 35,000 square foot building, next door to the historic Book Cadillac Hotel and within walking distance of Woodward Avenue and the future M-1 RAIL connecting Midtown and downtown, will house programs and facilities for automotive innovation, a non-automotive new business incubator, a think tank, creative design studio, an art gallery, Lear executive satellite offices, conference & meeting space and a rooftop garden.