Thanks for posting these pictures. I am wondering how folks feel about this project. I give it about a B+ or A- for effort, more trees along the streets and less bare cement in the "plaza" area would be the things they could improve on. I hope to be proven wrong, and that people will hang out for a while there. They were installing what I think will be the electronic "Art Wall" on the west side of the wall yesterday. It will be interesting to see what that will turn out like.
Starting yesterday workers were pulling up the just recently laid sidewalk at the corner of S. Washington and MalcomeX in front of the wall! I wonder why they are doing that? Also, one of the 3 skinny little trees they planted on S. Washington has been broken at the trunk it looks like by the wind but it could have been vandalism.
LANSING – Drivers can soon expect delays as a massive piece of Lansing Board of Water & Light equipment crosses through Oakland and Livingston counties on its way to Lansing.
The last of three compressor units bound for the BWL’s new Delta power plant is set to hit the road from Detroit on Nov. 7 and arrive in the Lansing area Nov. 8. Motorists can expect delays as the compressor meanders its way across the state.
The convoy is slow moving, taking almost two days to get from Detroit to Lansing, BWL General Manager Dick Peffley said.
“They’re not in danger of getting a speeding ticket,” Peffley said.
I've been meaning to get by there to see how things have been going, I looked at LBWL's Facebook and they had a recent post showing the first steel beam going up. I'm still curious as to how this building will be situated relative to the street though, the rendering made it look like it might be fairly close to Canal.
The science-fiction-esque scene has unfolded close to a dozen times over the past few weeks during the pre-dawn hours of the morning in communities from Canton to Lansing: Suburban intersections along Haggerty Road are shut down temporarily by Michigan State Police escorts who are guiding massive vehicles hauling ominous-looking, tarp-covered objects.
What's under the mystery-cloaking tarp? Nuclear weapons? Toxic waste headed to Michigan from Ohio? Defense-focused torpedoes?
Actually, none of the above.
The larger-than-life objects that may have piqued your interest on your morning commute are actually giant compressors headed to Lansing from the Port of Detroit.
Made in China, the generators are so huge that their route to the Lansing Board of Water & Light's new Delta Energy Park site is restricted to surface streets — a logistical, um, challenge that required the moving company to attain permits from each of the counties through which they travel.
That's pretty cool!
On my trip up north lately, there have been many very large windmill blades on trucks, even larger than the last windmills installed by Ithica, on US-127 heading toward the new array of mills being erected south of the older group. They are really huge! Ithica has quite an agro-industrial skyline these days with the windmills and the grain elevator complex that has been under construction for a couple of years. South of there in St. Johns the new dairy factory is also a huge complex of buildings, it looks like a very complicated job to construct a big factory from a cornfield and a swamp. If you go by the elevator complex be sure to look for the eagle's nest it is easy to spot in one of the standing dead trees in front of the complex. I saw the big bird swooping around the nest the other day. Also pretty cool! US 127 has also been repaved in most areas heading north.
I recently saw an interesting video on Youtube about an apartment building built in Milan Italy that is a vertical forest. It is not only beautiful but absorbs huge amounts of carbon pollution from the city air. That was something like the idea I had for the three stacks. Won't it be cool if we somehow built a vertical forest of plants on the stacks? The stacks would go from dirty polluting structures to beautiful green structures that actually help clean the air. That sight in itself might be a tourist attraction. PS thanks for reading my posts, everyone! I'm not a good linker so I don't do it here, a search on Youtube will bring up this building.
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The Christman Co. put up some shots of this one:
Thanks for posting these pictures. I am wondering how folks feel about this project. I give it about a B+ or A- for effort, more trees along the streets and less bare cement in the "plaza" area would be the things they could improve on. I hope to be proven wrong, and that people will hang out for a while there. They were installing what I think will be the electronic "Art Wall" on the west side of the wall yesterday. It will be interesting to see what that will turn out like.
Driving delays expected as BWL equipment moves 200,000 pound compressor to new plant
What's in those mysterious, police-escorted caravans traveling on Haggerty?
On my trip up north lately, there have been many very large windmill blades on trucks, even larger than the last windmills installed by Ithica, on US-127 heading toward the new array of mills being erected south of the older group. They are really huge! Ithica has quite an agro-industrial skyline these days with the windmills and the grain elevator complex that has been under construction for a couple of years. South of there in St. Johns the new dairy factory is also a huge complex of buildings, it looks like a very complicated job to construct a big factory from a cornfield and a swamp. If you go by the elevator complex be sure to look for the eagle's nest it is easy to spot in one of the standing dead trees in front of the complex. I saw the big bird swooping around the nest the other day. Also pretty cool! US 127 has also been repaved in most areas heading north.
Hadn't realized this is right next door to Erickson.