Granger Construction is headquarted at Aurelius and 96, but I haven't hear their name connected to the Art Museum, but maybe they got the bid as the general contractor. I don't know.
I was watching the welcome message of the dean of MSU Law on their website and she said that in a week or so she hopes the College will close the deal and buy a building on Abbot Road to house current and future legal clinical programs. East Lansing is slowly, but surely, moving forward. I am sure great things will continue to happen as the physical and creative barriers of MSU/EL are eliminated and more people take advantage of the commercial opportunities and advantages.
1. Here's an article regarding What' Up Dawg? and their location next to St. John’s Student Parish. Apparently they arrived to some arrangements. Link: http://lansingonlinenews.com/news/proposed-restaurant-finds-unique-bond-with-local-church/
2. There was an article last week on the State News about the Edythe Broad Art Museum. An excerpt of the article: "In conjunction with fundraising, construction work on the building remains on schedule, thanks to the weather’s cooperation during the past month, said Linda Stanford, associate provost for academic services. On Monday, workers poured concrete for five nonstop hours to the first floor’s concrete decking on top of 18 hours of concrete pouring of the building’s foundation in July." Now it is very visible from Grand River Ave.
3. The Five Guys franchise opened around the first week of October. There's always a lot of people and it looks like a very stable business and it provides employment for a lot of people since it opens every day of the week until late night.
4. Another article on the State News from around two weeks ago regarding the connection of entrepreneurship and creativity (arts) that city officials are promoting for EL. Excerpt: "Artists, musicians and other creative entrepreneurs gathered Wednesday at Spartan Dance Center, 217 Ann St.,to reenergize a discussion about the Downtown East Lansing Cultural Entrepreneurship Program launched in 2007, said Heather Pope, East Lansing’s community development specialist." Link: http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2010/10/incentives_to_aid_creative_businesses
5. The final article for today, also from the State News, is about a new teahouse and coffee shop that opened this September at 547 E. Grand River Ave. It is a local business and it looks very comfortable. It shows that there are a lot of opportunities for business here and a lot of demand for coffee shops and places to meet and just hang out. Link: http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2010/09/new_teahouse_provides_relaxing_atmosphere
Overall, I see a lot of positive things going on in East Lansing and a lot of opportunities available for business creation. Personally, the one thing that I consider is missing and is keeping East Lansing from exploding economically is the lack of financial institutions in the area that can finance start-ups and provide the seed money needed for a lot of local businesses.
I don't think this has been posted:
H Inc. Is proposing a major development in downtown East Lansing. They have posted a presentation with maps and building information online:
http://www.hinclive.com/AbbotGrove.pdf
Thanks for posting and welcome to the forum. H Inc. is the same company that did the MotorWheel Lofts in Lansing which as far as I know have been a huge success. I didn't know about this project before. It looks like the first phase would be located where The Refinery/Menna's Joint and 7-11 are located.
These are some statistics that I gathered from the PDF:
Total project square footage: 1,220,724 Sq. Ft.
Condominiums/apartments: 504 units
Underground parking garages: 3 garages each three levels below grade with a total of 2,784 spaces.
They would also be tearing down Harpers/Club Rush to put in a new street named Park Lane or Market Street.
Phase 1:
Building 'F': Retail/Residential, total of 95,340 square feet, height of 4 stories
Building 'G': Retail/Residential, total of 134,352 square feet, height of 4 stories
Creation of half of a new road. One of the slides calls this "Park Lane" and another slide calls this "Market Street".
There don't look to be any timelines on the slides. Do you have any more information Matt?
Wha? Over a million square feet of space and 504 units? Really? Honestly, the only thing having been built in recent times over 1 million square feet are the GM plants, and nothing on a residential or commercial scale has been built like that.
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2. There was an article last week on the State News about the Edythe Broad Art Museum. An excerpt of the article: "In conjunction with fundraising, construction work on the building remains on schedule, thanks to the weather’s cooperation during the past month, said Linda Stanford, associate provost for academic services. On Monday, workers poured concrete for five nonstop hours to the first floor’s concrete decking on top of 18 hours of concrete pouring of the building’s foundation in July." Now it is very visible from Grand River Ave.
3. The Five Guys franchise opened around the first week of October. There's always a lot of people and it looks like a very stable business and it provides employment for a lot of people since it opens every day of the week until late night.
4. Another article on the State News from around two weeks ago regarding the connection of entrepreneurship and creativity (arts) that city officials are promoting for EL. Excerpt: "Artists, musicians and other creative entrepreneurs gathered Wednesday at Spartan Dance Center, 217 Ann St.,to reenergize a discussion about the Downtown East Lansing Cultural Entrepreneurship Program launched in 2007, said Heather Pope, East Lansing’s community development specialist." Link: http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2010/10/incentives_to_aid_creative_businesses
5. The final article for today, also from the State News, is about a new teahouse and coffee shop that opened this September at 547 E. Grand River Ave. It is a local business and it looks very comfortable. It shows that there are a lot of opportunities for business here and a lot of demand for coffee shops and places to meet and just hang out. Link: http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2010/09/new_teahouse_provides_relaxing_atmosphere
Overall, I see a lot of positive things going on in East Lansing and a lot of opportunities available for business creation. Personally, the one thing that I consider is missing and is keeping East Lansing from exploding economically is the lack of financial institutions in the area that can finance start-ups and provide the seed money needed for a lot of local businesses.
H Inc. Is proposing a major development in downtown East Lansing. They have posted a presentation with maps and building information online:
http://www.hinclive.com/AbbotGrove.pdf
These are some statistics that I gathered from the PDF:
Total project square footage: 1,220,724 Sq. Ft.
Condominiums/apartments: 504 units
Underground parking garages: 3 garages each three levels below grade with a total of 2,784 spaces.
They would also be tearing down Harpers/Club Rush to put in a new street named Park Lane or Market Street.
Phase 1:
Building 'F': Retail/Residential, total of 95,340 square feet, height of 4 stories
Building 'G': Retail/Residential, total of 134,352 square feet, height of 4 stories
Creation of half of a new road. One of the slides calls this "Park Lane" and another slide calls this "Market Street".
There don't look to be any timelines on the slides. Do you have any more information Matt?