Category: Project Summaries

We Dig, and Restore, Detroit

An RBV Contracting employee walks in the dirt, leaving footprints alongside the tire marks from construction equipment.

At RBV Contracting, our team is fiercely proud to be a small business headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. Our city is as unique as it is tough, and we love seeing people investing in the city again and maintaining a staunch, community-wide “comeback” mentality. Our motto is “We Dig Detroit,” and part of that includes helping […]

Project Highlight: Fort Dodge, Iowa

A large bridge spans over the river in Fort Dodge, Iowa

Although RBV Contracting was founded in Detroit, Michigan, and lives by the motto “We Dig Detroit,” our expert team is busy working on projects throughout the Midwest, and most recently, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Rock Island District hired our team to clear land and install a multi-use […]

Project Highlight: 88th Armory in Southfield

The inside of RBV Contracting's project, the 88th Armory in Southfield, shows shiny floors and multiple levels.

Our team at RBV Contracting is extremely passionate about the work that we do, and there is an immense feeling of pride when our team successfully, and safely, finishes a project. Since September 21, 2017, our team has been working on the 88th Regional Support Command Repair Vehicle Exhaust System, Building Maintenance Activity project, and […]

Building Hope: RBV Building Renovation in Hope Village

RBV Contracting employees work on building renovation in Hope Village

Project: 990 Oakman Blvd Renovation (Location of the RBV Headquarters) Location: Hope Village Completion Date: March 2018 Interior Design: Mona Riashi, NBS Commercial Interiors, Troy, MI Lead Design: Matt Badrak, Badrak Design Group, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI Architect: Chester Stempien Associates, Southfield, MI In September of 2016, we acquired 990 Oakland Boulevard and the two […]

Digging Detroit and Brush Park: The City Modern Project

An RBV Contracting employee lifts a chain around a large concrete block on a construction site

Project: City Modern Location: Detroit’s Brush Park Neighborhood Value: Over $4 million Client: Bedrock Detroit Completion Date: Summer 2018   Centrally located in Detroit’s Brush Park neighborhood, the City Modern project is yet another partnership between RBV Contracting and Bedrock Detroit. We have had the honor of working with Bedrock, THE leading full-service commercial real […]

Project Summary: Little Caesar’s Arena

The Redwings play inside of RBV Contracting's Little Caesars Arena.

This past year our crew had the opportunity to work on Little Ceasar’s Arena. The arena which is now “home” to Detroit’s NHL (National Hockey League) and NBA (National Basketball Association) teams, cost $862.9 million to construct and opened on Sept. 5, 2017. Little Ceasar’s Arena can respectively hold 20,000 hockey spectators and 21,000 basketball spectators, […]