Bedrock Historic Consulting

Over the course of the past 15 years, KDG has developed guideline language that looks to balance what are often very generalized and interpretive standards set by the National Park Service with real estate development’s competing need for both certainty and flexibility. As part of that process, we have established a proven means of communication to convey these guidelines in ways that clearly give the “middle of the road” expectation of the governing agencies while also suggesting possible alternatives where appropriate.

Dozens of projects have been carried out under the guidance of this work, including many buildings along Detroit’s most notable commercial corridors of Woodward, Washington Blvd, and Capitol Park. In general, KDG authors the design guidelines after the initial historic research is complete and design has just begun. The architects are given the guidelines, and our firms work together alongside governing agencie to develop a historically compliant and constructable design.