Converting the 125-year-old Loyalty Building, a landmark office structure in Milwaukee, into a 127-room hotel required its design-build team to reconcile stringent standards for historic rehabilitation with code requirements for the facility's new use. The hotel's entrance, for instance, meets requirements for ingress and egress while providing an experience that highlights the building's history.
Other initiatives put old elements to new uses. After discovering original wood wainscoting behind a demolished office wall, the team incorporated portions of it into a bar front. Other features resumed their original roles in portions of the hotel lobby.