The Michigan State University (MSU) Federal Credit Union has move its headquarters into a new 137,000 square foot green building on West Road in the northern tier of East Lansing.
According to excerpts from the article:
The paint doesn’t smell like anything, and the air smells like air. Sounds and sights are equally merciful: cooled or heated air drifts silently from raised floors and clerks tap out transactions by filtered sunlight.
If all that isn’t healthy enough, employees can go to an in-house fitness center or jog off their lunch on a mile-long ribbon of trail that winds around the building through flowery meadows and low-maintenance grass. The meadows are designed and maintained by MSU horticultural profs and will double as grist for scientific study.
Still, however green the building is, it’s no shrinking violet. Motorists on U.S. 127 do a double-take at the huge glass monetarium that looms over the cornfields, at 137,000 square feet a stark testament to the Credit Union’s staggering growth.
The Credit Union’s last major build, its Crescent Drive offices, became obsolete almost as soon as it was finished in 1998. By 2003, 80 employees were working in leased office space.
The new building will house 330 employees when fully staffed in mid-October, and there’s plenty of room on the 33-acre campus for more buildings.
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