Construction nearly completed on downtown Ann Arbor’s Sudworth building

Work is nearly finished on the Sudworth building in downtown Ann Arbor, bringing another historic structure back to the top shelf of downtown structures.The Blue Tractor Brewery and Barbeque is set to open in early November in the ground floor and basement. The second and third floors of the 3-story structure will be ready for office occupants soon, too.”The upper floors are also very close,” says Greg Lobdell, co-owner of the Sudworth Building. “They will be ready a few weeks after the restaurant comes online.”Lobdell and his partner, John Carlson, head up Ann Arbor-based 2mission which is behind the $3 million project. They also own Café Habana next door to the Sudworth, 205 E Washington. About 6,000 square feet of the 10,000-square-foot building is still available for lease on the top two floors. Lobdell and Carlson have preserved many of the building’s historic aspects, such as the building’s distinctly large windows on the second and third floors. They also have added several green features, like wiring the building for solar panels amd  LED lights. The Romaneque structure is about 100 years old. It has served as a retail store, the home to a number of fraternal orders and most recently as a Buddhist temple. It’s named after Bishop Sudworth who owned a successful medical practice in Kalamazoo and a drugstore in Petoskey in the later half of the 19th Century before coming to Ann Arbor.  Source: Greg Lobdell, co-owner of the Sudworth BuildingWriter: Jon Zemke