I guess at this point there's not much more to say other than that this will be a pretty big project. The only hint it gives about the specific location is that the development will take up two lots that total 46k sq ft. My money's on this being at the corner of Bogue and Grand River with the biggest question being will the second parcel be the one to the south or east of 7/11.
918 E GRAND RIVER AVE - The 7-11
926 E GRAND RIVER AVE - The PNC ATM connected to 7-11 (a bit odd that the address is higher than 7-11 considering it is east of the 7-11)
1010 E GRAND RIVER AVE - Georgio's Pizza
I hope the new development will contain retail on the first floor, to replace these businesses and considering that it's on the retail stretch of the neighborhood.
Also, I just used Google Maps' measurement tool to verify the size of the two lots together. Rough measurements are 326x142, which is about 46,292 sq ft. The Assessor's website doesn't list lot sizes for these properties oddly enough.
Yeah, it was cool to scoop the LSJ by about 4 days
I think it's worth mentioning that we may have seen some of the drought of development in the Cedar Village area due to the recession that came through around 2007. It seems that we are now at the point where the Lansing area is starting to get back to about 90% of what it was prior to the recession. The millenial generation is really interested in living in cities, so this spells a good future for development in the inner cities here and elsewhere.
Also, a new charter school is being proposed in East Lansing, at the corner of Coolidge Rd and Coleman Rd. I was surprised to see so many people move out to the Northern Tier without a neighborhood school. I think ELPS is missing out here, and it's sad to see that a charter school will be filling the void. This puts more pressure on ELPS to get their bond proposal to build new elementary schools passed, the last one they attempted failed.
I agree. If the student size is shrinking then lower the amount of classrooms, but closing down neighborhood schools is terrible for the neighborhood and property values. It also looks like it is costing them far more money to reopen the school since it sat unused for so long now.
I think this whole charter school idea is almost entirely bogus. When I drive around town and see a public school that is open it is notable. Every neighborhood in Lansing and East Lansing had a school, the sounds and sites of a school. I wonder where have all the children gone? To segregated privet often religious schools, that take a profit from their students. My old school Barnes Avenue School is now nearly totally African American students, while I have no problem with honoring Malcolm X, it feels wrong to me to have this school be all one race, as with the charter school over on W. Mt Hope it is nearly all white. This is all a part of the same problem, the undermining of our public institutions for some vague political baloney about "choice" combined with mistrust of teacher's unions and well just plain racism.
I saw the latest plan for Grand River and Abbot on the LSJ site. I like the front facade but the [I guess] hotel building looks a lot like the Raddison downtown.
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It's anywhere in the Grand River Ave/Bogue Street Area Zone on this map:
I guess at this point there's not much more to say other than that this will be a pretty big project. The only hint it gives about the specific location is that the development will take up two lots that total 46k sq ft. My money's on this being at the corner of Bogue and Grand River with the biggest question being will the second parcel be the one to the south or east of 7/11.
I hope it's along Bogue or Grand River. Putting this in the middle of that neighborhood will be really awkward.
It's along Grand River, replacing 7-11 and Georgio's Pizza.
https://is.bsasoftware.com/bsa.is/AssessingServices/ServiceAssessingSearchResults.aspx?i=1&on=core+campus&appid=0&unit=138 is the list of properties that Core Campus Lansing owns.
918 E GRAND RIVER AVE - The 7-11
926 E GRAND RIVER AVE - The PNC ATM connected to 7-11 (a bit odd that the address is higher than 7-11 considering it is east of the 7-11)
1010 E GRAND RIVER AVE - Georgio's Pizza
I hope the new development will contain retail on the first floor, to replace these businesses and considering that it's on the retail stretch of the neighborhood.
Also, I just used Google Maps' measurement tool to verify the size of the two lots together. Rough measurements are 326x142, which is about 46,292 sq ft. The Assessor's website doesn't list lot sizes for these properties oddly enough.
I agree, I think they should just cut Meridian Twsp. out of the plan.
Yeah, it was cool to scoop the LSJ by about 4 days
I think it's worth mentioning that we may have seen some of the drought of development in the Cedar Village area due to the recession that came through around 2007. It seems that we are now at the point where the Lansing area is starting to get back to about 90% of what it was prior to the recession. The millenial generation is really interested in living in cities, so this spells a good future for development in the inner cities here and elsewhere.
Also, a new charter school is being proposed in East Lansing, at the corner of Coolidge Rd and Coleman Rd. I was surprised to see so many people move out to the Northern Tier without a neighborhood school. I think ELPS is missing out here, and it's sad to see that a charter school will be filling the void. This puts more pressure on ELPS to get their bond proposal to build new elementary schools passed, the last one they attempted failed.
Details on the new charter school: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2017/03/02/new-charter-school-planned-east-lansing/98577620/
I agree. If the student size is shrinking then lower the amount of classrooms, but closing down neighborhood schools is terrible for the neighborhood and property values. It also looks like it is costing them far more money to reopen the school since it sat unused for so long now.
I think this whole charter school idea is almost entirely bogus. When I drive around town and see a public school that is open it is notable. Every neighborhood in Lansing and East Lansing had a school, the sounds and sites of a school. I wonder where have all the children gone? To segregated privet often religious schools, that take a profit from their students. My old school Barnes Avenue School is now nearly totally African American students, while I have no problem with honoring Malcolm X, it feels wrong to me to have this school be all one race, as with the charter school over on W. Mt Hope it is nearly all white. This is all a part of the same problem, the undermining of our public institutions for some vague political baloney about "choice" combined with mistrust of teacher's unions and well just plain racism.
I saw the latest plan for Grand River and Abbot on the LSJ site. I like the front facade but the [I guess] hotel building looks a lot like the Raddison downtown.
Thank you! I thought the same thing but I couldn't think of where I had seen that building before.