Downtown skyline is rising before our very eyes

March 16, 2008
by Local Reports
Muskegon Chronicle

Taking shape on the corner of Third Street and Western Avenue is the Sidock Building, being constructed for the headquarters of Muskegon's Sidock Group.

The engineering and architectural firm is acting as its own construction manager as it builds its two-story multiuse building featuring a skylit, two-story atrium, stairs suspended on long metal rods, and a high arched window overlooking Western Avenue.

Sidock Group will use the second floor as its headquarters and the ground floor will be dedicated to commercial uses including a restaurant.

It's been an active season for construction along Third Street downtown, despite the unusually cold winter weather. The Hines Building on the opposite side of Western is framed and walled in, and appears to be on schedule for a June opening as the new home of the Muskegon Area Chamber of Commerce.

On the other side of the Sidock Building, at Third Street and Clay Avenue, groundbreaking is expected to take place soon for construction of Baker College's new culinary arts school.