Delhi/Holt/Mason Development
This sounds the opposite of ambitious, but I guess it's a start. Delhi Township wants to come up with a new vision for Cedar Street through the township, notably the part through Holt:
The street isn't really all that bad, it just hasn't realized its potential. There needs to be more "there" there, if that makes sense.
Curt Smith | Lansing State Journal
Delhi Twp. seeks ideas, vision to boost Cedar Street
DELHI TWP. – Have issues with Cedar Street? Traffic too crazy? Not enough convenient parking?
Township officials are paying attention and are beginning a process to look at how life along the busy thoroughfare can be improved.
Residents’ input will play a major part in the process, officials said.
“It’s not an engineering project,” said Tracy Miller, Delhi’s community development director. “It’s not a let’s-rebuild-the-road project.'"
“It’s ‘how do we develop a plan for redevelopment of the entire corridor as we move into the future?’”
Miller said a good hard look at Cedar Street has been part of the township’s master plan for some time, and last year, as decline along the corridor appeared to outpace progress, officials decided to take action.
Howard Haas, executive director of Delhi’s Downtown Authority, said his group has been helping to combat the problem, buying up blighted and "environmentally challenged" properties and preparing them for redevelopment.
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The street isn't really all that bad, it just hasn't realized its potential. There needs to be more "there" there, if that makes sense.
Comments
This is also just off CATA's #8 route, so they didn't need to include a whole lot of parking.
Does the township have an online meeting packet like some of the others do?
More details at http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/community/holt/2016/08/06/new-phase-holt-road-improvements-underway/88303786/
More details at http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2016/11/01/38m-apartment-complex-under-construction-holt/93104736/
From the article:
Looks like something they'd build out on the Northern Tier. This is a good sign for Holt.
BTW, just realized that this is just literally a few blocks east of the Lansing city limits and a few blocks west (seperated by the railroad tracks and cemetary) from Valhalla Park. In fact, this isn't too far down the road from Prestwick Village Apartments. It's great to see the older northern part of the community and township nearest Lansing revitalizing. I hope this eventually leads to development on Just-a-Mere in Lansing not too far away. I forget the story of this piece of land, but it was a failed development behind the hotel.
Can someone see if they can find a site plan? I'm interested at how many outlets this will have onto Willoughby.
Here's a link to the video, Willoughby Estates - Virtual Tour Architectural Animation. The quality of these fly-throughs is getting really good! The development looks good, and it is nice that they are marketing their proximity to the Lansing River Trail too (actually the Sycamore Trail but they connect).
I have been traveling around Michigan these past few months, and I wonder about and look for buildings or houses were one could say, that is a Michigan style house or building. For example in this development the stone work could be round field and river stones rather than flat, and with split plank wood siding, if an architect was trying to design a Michigan style lodge building or cottage. Up north you see a lot of field stone houses and buildings which are unique or different from stone houses in Pennsylvania, or the Rocky Mountain States. I noted also in The Pulse, they outlined Lansing's love of Mid-Century Modern, which could be a good place to start when designing a development in the Lansing area with a true Lansing Michigan style. I'd like to see designs that get away from kind of phony or uninteresting, uninspired lazy design.