Sachse Construction

Todd Sachse founded Sachse Construction in Detroit in 1991, and the firm has grown into a national builder working across retail, multifamily, office, hospitality, restaurants, entertainment, religious, industrial, education and healthcare projects in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Services run from preconstruction and program management through construction management, general contracting, design-build, tenant coordination and reconstruction. Zolman Restoration is a sister company. Sachse is the general contractor on the Lee Plaza restoration on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, converting the vacant 1929 Art Deco tower into 117 income-restricted senior apartments for a development team led by The Roxbury Group. Beyond the Detroit headquarters on Woodward Avenue, the firm keeps offices in Bonita Springs, Florida, New York City, and St. Thomas, Ontario.

Millions of square feet across all 50 states, Canada and Puerto Rico is the scope Sachse claims for its own work since 1991. It is a Detroit general contractor that went national by following retail and multifamily clients out of Michigan rather than by planting regional offices everywhere.

The delivery model reflects that. General contracting runs through a national network of trade partners and traveling project teams, so a job in an unfamiliar market gets a Sachse team on site rather than a subcontracted stand-in. Preconstruction leans on historical benchmark data and market pricing to produce estimates, value management and schedule analysis. Design-build runs from concept development through occupancy.

Two service lines are less common and worth calling out. Tenant coordination covers pre-development oversight, tenant construction compliance and tenant move-in, tracked in a proprietary coordination platform, which matters to landlords and developers turning over dozens of spaces against a leasing schedule. Reconstruction handles rebuilds after damage, taking on property evaluation, budgeting, insurance team coordination, demolition and remediation, then the interior and exterior construction that follows. Landlord work rounds out the set.

On technology the firm names an integrated online project management platform, building information modeling, PlanGrid, Egnyte and Microsoft Project. Sustainability is framed as applying LEED, WELL and green methodology through energy conservation, responsible material procurement and pursuit of incentive programs rather than sold as a standalone consulting product. Safety runs as project-specific programs active across the project lifecycle paired with team member training, and quality control is documented through consistent inspection, testing and closeout procedures.

Sachse also runs a visible set of programs around the construction work itself, including the Sachse Retail Summit for clients, the Sachse Construction Academy for team members, and the Sachse Social Mission volunteer arm, which has partnered with organizations such as Humble Design and run back-to-school drives.

Contact points, if you are trying to reach the right office: headquarters at 3663 Woodward Avenue, Suite 500 in Detroit on 313.481.8200; Florida at 9201 Cockleshell Court in Bonita Springs on 239.663.4140; New York at 290 Fifth Avenue, Floor 6; and Canada at 10 Ontario Road, St. Thomas, Ontario.