Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. announced today that it will host a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday, Aug. 26 to celebrate the start of construction for its Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons project at its corporate headquarters campus in downtown Milwaukee.
Northwestern Mutual will build a $450 million, 32-story, 1.1-million square foot office building on a site that was formally occupied by a 16-story, 452,000-square-foot office tower that has been torn down. That demolition work began in December of 2013.
Now construction crews are ready to begin work on the new building. A team of Gilbane Building Co. and Milwaukee-based C.G. Schmidt Inc. is the general contractor for the project. New Haven, Conn.-based Pickard Chilton is the design architect for the project. Houston-based Kendall/Heaton Associates is the architect of record for the project.
The construction work for the new building is expected to be complete in 2017.
The new tower will house 1,100 employees that had been housed in the building that was torn down and another 1,900 employees that the company plans to add by 2030.
