VENERABLE COMPANY TOUTS NEW NAME, RESOURCES
By Murray W. Wolf
Erdman CEO Scott A. Ransom in front of the design-build company’s new headquarters building in Madison, Wis.
HREI™ photo
When this reporter last visited the offices of Marshall Erdman & Associates (MEA) Inc. in Madison, Wis., a few years ago, the venerable healthcare design-build firm was still housed in a historic but cramped headquarters building at 5117 University Ave. – a cavernous concrete block and wood truss structure, built in large part from materials salvaged from a long-ago airport remodeling project.
When I returned this fall, it was to a $20 million, five story, 133,000 square foot, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold-certified office tower at One Erdman Place in a modern business park on Madison’s far west side.
The venue is not all that is new. In the wake of its March 2008 merger with Cogdell Spencer Inc. (NYSE: CSA), the firm now goes by the formal name of Erdman, a Cogdell Spencer Company. And that was merely the latest in a series of dramatic changes that the 57-year-old firm has gone through during in recent years.
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