IRON MOUNTAIN — Gundlach Champion Inc. has won the 2021 Associated General Contractors of Michigan’s Build Michigan Award in the design build category for a remodel and expansion project at the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community’s Ojibwa Casino in Marquette.

The Build Michigan Award recognizes outstanding Michigan construction projects that best represent what the AGC membership has to offer. Winning projects present good management skills, imagination, perseverance under unusual and challenging circumstances, and innovative construction techniques.

The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community contracted Gundlach Champion to build the expansion of the casino’s gaming operations. KBIC and GCI worked through multiple design considerations, major site utility challenges and budget constraints to develop a strategy to construct this facility. The 67,000-square-foot addition includes:

— 1,200-seat event center;

— Gaming floor with 750 slot machines and game tables;

— Restaurant, lounge, and quick service grill;

— Utility upgrades.

Gundlach Champion Inc. is the marriage of two storied and inventive firms: Herman Gundlach Inc. founded in 1898, and Champion Inc. founded in 1921. For more than a century, GCI has been providing preconstruction and project delivery systems to the commercial, educational, health care, industrial and public facilities markets throughout the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Midwest.