Renovating an occupied senior living building is a logistics challenge before it is a construction job. Every resident has to be moved, their belongings protected, and their daily life kept as close to normal as possible — all while the construction schedule keeps moving. Integrity Movers has been the moving partner behind some of the largest senior living renovations in Metro Detroit for more than a decade, and we specialize in exactly this kind of work.
We work directly with the construction company, property manager, and residents to take the entire moving piece off everyone’s plate — so the crews can focus on the build, the office can focus on residents, and the residents feel taken care of.
Most of these projects run the same way: one unit gets renovated, the resident moves into a temporary unit (or back into their finished unit), and we rotate through the building floor by floor until the whole property is done. That rhythm is what we are built for. Here’s what goes into our moving services.
On our most recent senior renovation, one of our people served as the on-site moving coordinator for the entire project — scheduling residents, communicating with the construction team, tracking inventory, and keeping the building’s leadership in the loop. It’s a role we’re built to fill: when the moving company is already inside the building every day, putting a coordinator in that seat is the most efficient way to run the whole operation.
Each of these was a full building top-to-bottom — every resident, every unit, start to finish. On every one of them we handled the resident moves, the on-site storage, and the move-back when renovations wrapped.
Prentis Apartments I — Oak Park, MI • 2013–2014
Prentis Apartments II — Oak Park, MI • ~195 units • 2017–2018
Coogan Terrace — Melvindale, MI • 2019–2020
Orchestra Place — Detroit, MI • 2021
Hechtman Apartments — West Bloomfield, MI • ~198 units • 2022–2023
Danish Village — Rochester Hills, MI • August 2024 – May 2025
These are people’s homes. A lot of the residents we move have lived in their apartment for twenty or thirty years — their belongings are their life. We don’t forget that. Our crews treat every unit like it’s a family member’s, and the feedback we get back from building staff and families reflects that.
We’re family-owned, and a new generation is stepping in to carry these relationships forward — the same way we’ve carried our construction partners’ projects for over a decade.
The earlier we’re brought into a senior renovation project, the smoother it runs. If you’re a construction company, property manager, or senior living operator planning an occupied-building renovation, we’d like a seat at the planning table.
