Does Lansing actually get tax money from this? I was a bit confused when reading articles about it, because it sounded like Lansing was giving them a $7 million tax break for the new construction. I think the general idea is that tax revenue would start coming in 10 years from now, but none immediately. I hope I'm wrong though, please correct me if so.
Apparently Gillespie owns the Goodyear Tire building on Michigan and is looking to develop it. 1309 E Michigan
It's looking like there is going to be a ton of development on Michigan Ave. between Lansing and East Lansing over the next few years, at least I hope so.
Anyone seen the Dye water plant lately? They took down the neon BWL sign, replacing it with plastic junk and they're painting it goofy colors. I'd suggest writing the BWL...
I recently heard that the State Police may move to secondary complex and sell their new building on Grand, possibly to the Feds. Apparently it's part of a plan that includes the construction of a new emergency operations center at secondary complex, where the state police would take over the General Office Building. I'm not sure how serious the plans are except that the new emergency operations center is already under construction or will be soon.
I'm really glad to see a major pathway that's not directly part of the Rivertrail. I'm sure there are some other potential locations along old railroad lines and what not that could provide similar opportunities. This seemed to come out of nowhere, had you heard anything about this before recently?
Thanks for sharing, I'm very glad to see a few things in that plan. My favorite potential new pathway is the one that will continue east from this new one on Jolly, I was thinking not long ago that it would be great too see a path through the gravel pit area along 127. That's really a pretty large area and there's no public access to it now that I'm aware of. I'm also happy to see the potential pathway along the railroad tracks that pass by Mt Hope and Washington, but that corridor is worthy of a whole discussion in and of itself. Lastly, I really hope that they have a tangible plan to extend the Rivertrail to the north west, but I'm not sure how much faith I can put into that.
On another note, they have peeled away the protective film on one section of tiles on the Knapp's and it looks pretty great, if you haven't checked it out you should.
I think this project is just about perfect for its location it'd be so good if there were more things like this going on in Old Town. I hope that this is just the beginning for new construction in Old Town, I still wish Richard Karp's project would have happened
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It's looking like there is going to be a ton of development on Michigan Ave. between Lansing and East Lansing over the next few years, at least I hope so.
On another note, they have peeled away the protective film on one section of tiles on the Knapp's and it looks pretty great, if you haven't checked it out you should.