MENOMINEE, MI - The abandoned Lloyd’s Department Store (ca. 1926) in Menominee, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula on scenic Green Bay, has a new green lease on life. Lloyd House, an historic renovation of the landmark building, now provides 44 sustainably designed apartment homes and on-site offices for a health provider serving residents and the community.
Lloyd House has been awarded Enterprise Green Communities certification, which recognizes outstanding green building strategy and implementation for affordable housing and mixed-income projects.
Sol design + consulting, Cincinnati, Ohio, provided energy efficiency and Enterprise Green Communities certification services for Lloyd House, developed by The Woda Group, Westerville, Ohio, with offices in Mackinaw City, Michigan and other locations across the country. Design is by Hooker DeJong Architects & Engineers, Muskegon, Michigan.
Lloyd House achieves exceptional energy performance, especially for 90-year old building renovated to historic standards. The building exceeds its ASHRAE energy efficiency goals by 33.7%. Features contributing to this accomplishment include:
96% efficient gas furnaces and high-SEER air conditioners in each unit
Central hot water from a high-efficiency commercial gas system
Enhanced wall and roof insulation
Energy recovery ventilator (ERV) to increase energy efficiency and provide fresh, tempered outdoor air throughout the building
ENERGY STAR appliances, lighting and bath exhaust fans
Healthy indoor air quality is maintained by the fresh outdoor air supply, exclusive use of low-VOC paints, adhesives and sealants, and low formaldehyde composite woods.
Lloyd’s Department Store was built by Menominee millionaire inventor, industrialist, business and civic leader Marshall Burns Lloyd in 1926, after the city’s only department store was destroyed by fire and not rebuilt. Known informally as “The Wonder Store”, Lloyd stocked it with European goods to rival department stores in major cities. It featured a marble-embellished arcade and The Lloyd Theater, one of the first movie theaters north of Chicago to show “talkies”.
The store operated until 1946, when it was converted to a manufacturing site for the Fish, Net & Twine Company, and finally abandoned for six years, until The Woda Group purchased it in 2012. The $11.1 million renovation was partially financed by Housing Tax Credits and Federal Historic Tax Credits, and supported by a 16-year tax abatement from the City of Menominee. Lloyd House won a 2015 Michigan Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation.
More on Lloyd House: www.nefinc.org/LloydHouse
About Sol design + consulting: Sol design + consulting specializes in energy efficiency and green building certification services for developers, owners, builders and architects. Certification programs include LEED, ENERGY STAR, Enterprise Green Communities, NAHB National Green Building Standard, Passive House, Net-Zero Energy Building and other state and local sustainability programs. What sets Sol apart is 25 years of professional design and construction experience brought to green building consulting. The company has certified over 100 projects in 15 states and is working on its first international projects. More on Sol at: www.soldesignconsulting.com