Saginaw Chippewa Behavioral Health & Residential Treatment Center | Mt. Pleasant, MI

The need: A facility that could meet the critical community need of providing alcohol & substance abuse inpatient and outpatient treatment services to native Chippewas in the Saginaw area.

The solution: A new 35,000-square-foot treatment center with the capacity for 24 patients, providing segregated areas for men, women, girls and boys.

The conceptual design integrates many facets of the tribe's cultural heritage, such as a building footprint that represents a soaring eagle, natural wood and stone materials, and traditional colors. The facility's east-to-west orientation offers views of the traditional ceremonial grounds. Other amenities include a food service area, comfortable visitor space, and an adjacent parking lot.

Type: Inpatient/outpatient
behavioral health center
Size: 35,239 SF
Cost: $6 million

Completion: 2005
Scope: New construction