GRAND RAPIDS — With more than $100 million in downtown development in progress, Orion Construction and DTN Management Co. are a match made in heaven.
Following the construction of an apartment complex at East Lansing’s Eastwood Towne Center, it became obvious the values and goals of the two companies aligned, as did their individual expertise.
As Lansing-based DTN decided to hone in on the downtown Grand Rapids market, building on its more than 1 million square feet of space in the Greater Grand Rapids area, co-owner Ronald Uppal said Orion's expertise in development and construction meshed perfectly with DTN's asset management and management specialties.
“As we started working, it’s a shared vision of what we could bring to this town,” Uppal said. "We believe in — when we look at what's going on in the urban core, the Medical Mile, how it's transformed itself — that we wanted to be downtown."