The Metropolitan Center for High Technology, formerly S. S. Kresge World Headquarters, is an office building located at 2727 Second Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan.

[1][2] The office building is now part of Wayne State University and used as a business incubator for startup companies.

[3] One of them was located in Detroit; Kresge moved to the city and soon gained control of a five and dime retail store on Woodward.

[3] The resulting building, completed in 1927,[4] is unique for its horizontal massing as opposed to the vertical lines of the more common skyscraper, and won awards for its outstanding architecture.

[2] The Kresge World Headquarters is a limestone-faced building, constructed in the shape of a large E with the wings pointing away from the park.