The University of Michigan, Dearborn called STRATUS to assess the opportunity of limited-time offer to purchase Ford Motor Company's 300,000 SF corporate training headquarters. Within one month, STRATUS met with campus academic and administrative leaders, performed quantitative and qualitative assessments of the Center, identified existing and new program candidates for inclusion, analyzed current classroom utilization, developed alternative program use and development scenarios, synthesized a common vision, quantified the space needs, estimated the cost of each scenario including the cost of secondary projects, articulated alternative funding and purchase negotiation strategies, and developed a report of the findings. The resulting "case statement" helped secure over $55 Million in state funding for acquisition of the Center and implementation of secondary projects.