The stamping plant is kind of an odd shape, it's good to know where to expect to see it at though.
I'd hate to see any vertical additions to Eastern, but I would love to see apartments made out of it. I think it's actually a pretty feasible project, a developer could also take on turning the field house into a performance venue or whatever else.
The LSD's problems are mostly out of its control, but their reactions/solutions to those problems have been pretty bad. No Child Left Behind sucks, but education in general was broken before that. I don't know what the solutions are, but education as whole needs to be completely rethought from the ground up for things to truly get better anywhere. Besides that, the LSD is going to have to come up with better solutions than it has to cope with NCLB, schools of choice, aging buildings, poor parenting and pointless state and federal standards.
Finally some official information - CATA will be extending Rt 12 to connect LCC's main and west campuses during the semester. Looks like a pretty minor change to the route (why didn't we do this a long time ago?). Students with at least one class at west campus can buy a semester pass for $40.
Huh - I also see Rt 25 will no longer serve Eastwood Towne Center. Somewhat surprising (or not?) as CATA recently had a promotion to encourage people to take Rt 25 to Eastwood. And "Buses will travel Abbot, Chandler and Coleman roads to and from Meijer"... hmm. I wonder if that is an attempt to get another bus up to the student housing areas there. Rt 26 would sometimes be completely full just from those students, and therefore useless to anyone elsewhere on the route.
Well, #25 also serves that Meijer - but it does look like this would mean no route serving Eastwood from EL. Like I said, they had that promotion recently where you were supposed to ride the bus to Eastwood, and then get stickers from merchants - a student of mine won, actually, almost by default from his telling. He would ask for stickers from participating merchants and they didn't know what he was talking about and couldn't even find the stickers, like, NOBODY was participating in the promotion. Well, there you go.
I was poking around Gillespie Group's page and found a listing of their properties, the most noteworthy probably being 600 E Michigan
It'd be lovely to see a building that looks like that go such a prominent corner, huh? Even with a spectacular design, a four floor building on that site would be disappointing, but to have another tacky, neon colored Studio Intrigue building there would be aggravating.
I think MichMatters mentioned 518 E Shiawassee a little bit ago. Apparently it's being renovated "to create one of the coolest and innovative high tech urban office spaces in the Lansing area." I guess he doesn't have much faith in the casino going through and has no intentions of pursuing Ballpark North.
There's nothing too much else of interest, besides that he apparently owns the Sears building in Frandor, here's the link to their Lansiing Properties
Oh, I like Midtown - I like color. Wouldn't want to see it everywhere, but it makes for a unique building. Rapped on one of the colored walls and it sounded hollow, incidentally.
There are cheap building materials nowadays - I don't know if you've ever taken a close look at Boardwalk Condominiums in East Lansing. Building looks sort of like stucco, but there is a small chunk out of one of the walls and... inside a very thin covering layer is something very much like styrofoam.
I was really hoping for those colored panels to end up being tile or something, whatever they ended up being looks cheap. Midtown in particular looks as if it were built of scrap materials, I don't understand why Gillespie's doing such cheap stuff. If 600 E Michigan were to end up a three floor Midtown clone with no ground floor retail like the building in the rendering, I would be very disappointed.
When I was looking through some of Studio Intrigue's stuff the other day I came to realize that they really are capable of decent work, some of their interior designs are especially nice, but working for Gillespie could end up giving them something of a bad reputation.
I'm through there pretty regularly and it's amazing how different it is from two years ago, or even last year. Here's to hoping that all this new space gets leased quickly so we can see this trend continue.
On the note of things being seen driving by, it looks like Jackson National's expansion is well underway. You can see the building from Sandhill Rd and at least part of it already appears topped out. I was by there last week and was surprised to see construction that far along, I didn't know they'd even started on it.
Regarding the shape of the townships border, I have no idea why it's like that and no clue where to find info something like that. It is pretty odd though now that you point it out.
I saw that and laughed a little. I wonder what he was thinking?
The top three floors of this building have sort of grown on me though. It doesn't really look right at a squat three floors, but at six or more floors, with a redesigned base and no ground floor parking, it would actually be a very nice building.
So does anyone know what happened with Rum Runners? Evidently they closed in March. I don't remember hearing anything about this. They don't even list the main Lansing location on their website any more. I was right by there for a Lugnuts game and didn't even notice they weren't open.
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I'd hate to see any vertical additions to Eastern, but I would love to see apartments made out of it. I think it's actually a pretty feasible project, a developer could also take on turning the field house into a performance venue or whatever else.
The LSD's problems are mostly out of its control, but their reactions/solutions to those problems have been pretty bad. No Child Left Behind sucks, but education in general was broken before that. I don't know what the solutions are, but education as whole needs to be completely rethought from the ground up for things to truly get better anywhere. Besides that, the LSD is going to have to come up with better solutions than it has to cope with NCLB, schools of choice, aging buildings, poor parenting and pointless state and federal standards.
It'd be lovely to see a building that looks like that go such a prominent corner, huh? Even with a spectacular design, a four floor building on that site would be disappointing, but to have another tacky, neon colored Studio Intrigue building there would be aggravating.
I think MichMatters mentioned 518 E Shiawassee a little bit ago. Apparently it's being renovated "to create one of the coolest and innovative high tech urban office spaces in the Lansing area." I guess he doesn't have much faith in the casino going through and has no intentions of pursuing Ballpark North.
There's nothing too much else of interest, besides that he apparently owns the Sears building in Frandor, here's the link to their Lansiing Properties
There are cheap building materials nowadays - I don't know if you've ever taken a close look at Boardwalk Condominiums in East Lansing. Building looks sort of like stucco, but there is a small chunk out of one of the walls and... inside a very thin covering layer is something very much like styrofoam.
When I was looking through some of Studio Intrigue's stuff the other day I came to realize that they really are capable of decent work, some of their interior designs are especially nice, but working for Gillespie could end up giving them something of a bad reputation.
On the note of things being seen driving by, it looks like Jackson National's expansion is well underway. You can see the building from Sandhill Rd and at least part of it already appears topped out. I was by there last week and was surprised to see construction that far along, I didn't know they'd even started on it.
Regarding the shape of the townships border, I have no idea why it's like that and no clue where to find info something like that. It is pretty odd though now that you point it out.
The top three floors of this building have sort of grown on me though. It doesn't really look right at a squat three floors, but at six or more floors, with a redesigned base and no ground floor parking, it would actually be a very nice building.