Feb 20, 2018

Headlands Receives Building Michigan Award

East Lansing — The Waterfront Event Center at Headlands Dark Sky Park was one of five Michigan commercial construction projects awarded the 2017 Building Michigan Awards from the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Michigan at its annual meeting on February 16.  Contractors and their teams were honored for excellence and innovation for some of the state’s most successful projects completed over the past year.

“AGC of Michigan is proud to honor Michigan contractors who have pushed environmental, design and management limits in the commercial construction industry while maintaining a firm focus on our core values of skill, integrity and responsibility,” said Damian P. Hill, president of AGC of Michigan. “Contractors like these – and their teams – are why the Michigan construction industry continues to be recognized as a leader in innovation, efficiency and willingness to take on challenges in the state and across the nation.”

Honored in the Building Construction under $10 million category, the Waterfront Event Center an observatory building, restrooms, and an events center on the shores of Lake Michigan, just two miles west of the Mackinac Bridge. Headlands won the prestigious 2017 Pure Award at the Governor’s Conference on Tourism and was named International Dark Sky Park of the Year.

WATERFRONT EVENT CENTER AND OBSERVATORY AT THE HEADLANDS DARK SKY PARK