Yeah, I'd agree that the height and scale of the buildings is good. Now just to wait for the official announcement to see just how vague and far off this project is.
1. Sparrow has announced plans for a new Cancer Wing at their Michigan Ave campus. It will be located across the street on the Bingham Elementary property that they purchased. The office building will be 5-stories tall and there will also be a 4-story parking deck with ground-floor retail. They also announced a new 3-story medical office building at Grand River Ave and US 127. This will replace the current Lansing Medical Dental Building.
2. Another project has been proposed for the Ottawa and Butler property. David Ferguson, son of Joel Ferguson, is proposing 72 new townhouses and apartments. The Michigan Association of Broadcasters would build a 9,000-square-foot building on the site. The other components would be two four-story buildings with ground floor commercial and housing in the upper floors. It also would offer 28 rowhouse-style condos and townhomes. David Ferguson was the developer behind the row houses in Old Town on Turner Street.
I'm most excited about the ground floor retail of the parking deck that Sparrow is building. The Sparrow stretch of Michigan Ave is severely lacking in commercial within that long block, and so this is a promising first step towards diversification of businesses/activities for the neighborhood.
After looking at the site plan, and watching WILX's video, I'm pretty sure that second rendering is the headquarters building.
Site plan from WLNS:
I'm liking this project. The townhomes look great, the headquarters looks good and the site plan seems well thought out. At four floor the mixed use buildings are taller than I expected, which is a good thing, I hope the neighborhood doesn't interfere. This seems like it's the best proposal the site's had out of them all, I really hope it doesn't flop.
Regards to Sparrow, I'm also curious to whether the parking garage will take up all the Michigan frontage, I'd also rather see the Michigan frontage split between the buildings. I'm pretty anxious to see what they're building there though, it won't be large project by Sparrow standards as of late but it will be important since it sounds like it's filling in an entire block. I think the ground floor retail is especially great,it should set a good precedent for future Sparrow development along Michigan.
According to the LSJ article, it hasn't hit the City Council yet. Quoting, "Sparrow wrote in a rezoning request to the city of Lansing. The project's rezoning request will have a public hearing Dec. 2 before the city's planning board."
It seems odd to me that the Senate would accept sharing a building with a private tenant, I'd imagine they'd really like to have the whole building and probably plan on it sooner rather than later. What original plan did the House fail to move on?
Some items from the December 8th City Council packet:
-Rezoning of Walter French to F-1 commercial for the purpose of converting "the building at 1900 S.
Cedar Street into a mix of commercial, office and multiple family residential uses..." It goes on to say that the plan calls for 91 residential units and 75k sq ft of office, recreational and commercial space.
-Rezoning of Oliver towers to G-1 business district with no information on any specific plans.
-Rezoning for Sparrows cancer addition and parking ramp. I posted the site plan in the Sparrow projects forum.
I've never been in there, but it sounds like the interior is unique throughout the building. I hope that someone can make use of it as is, I can't imagine who would though. Maybe a large law firm?
As difficult as a might be to reuse, I have a feeling it won't be empty for too long. Seeing who ends up reusing it and how should be interesting though.
If I under stand correctly there is an auditorium with balcony on top two floors. Possibly it could be a theatre/venue. I also agree that this won't be vacant for long. I tried to look for pics of inside/auditorium, no luck.
I haven't seen a site plan. When they mentioned that they were planning a larger development later on I kinda figured they'd do something shoddy in the meantime. Hopefully they at least make the parking lot look nice and their office/hotel development comes together quickly.
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1. Sparrow has announced plans for a new Cancer Wing at their Michigan Ave campus. It will be located across the street on the Bingham Elementary property that they purchased. The office building will be 5-stories tall and there will also be a 4-story parking deck with ground-floor retail. They also announced a new 3-story medical office building at Grand River Ave and US 127. This will replace the current Lansing Medical Dental Building.
2. Another project has been proposed for the Ottawa and Butler property. David Ferguson, son of Joel Ferguson, is proposing 72 new townhouses and apartments. The Michigan Association of Broadcasters would build a 9,000-square-foot building on the site. The other components would be two four-story buildings with ground floor commercial and housing in the upper floors. It also would offer 28 rowhouse-style condos and townhomes. David Ferguson was the developer behind the row houses in Old Town on Turner Street.
I'm most excited about the ground floor retail of the parking deck that Sparrow is building. The Sparrow stretch of Michigan Ave is severely lacking in commercial within that long block, and so this is a promising first step towards diversification of businesses/activities for the neighborhood.
Site plan from WLNS:
I'm liking this project. The townhomes look great, the headquarters looks good and the site plan seems well thought out. At four floor the mixed use buildings are taller than I expected, which is a good thing, I hope the neighborhood doesn't interfere. This seems like it's the best proposal the site's had out of them all, I really hope it doesn't flop.
Regards to Sparrow, I'm also curious to whether the parking garage will take up all the Michigan frontage, I'd also rather see the Michigan frontage split between the buildings. I'm pretty anxious to see what they're building there though, it won't be large project by Sparrow standards as of late but it will be important since it sounds like it's filling in an entire block. I think the ground floor retail is especially great,it should set a good precedent for future Sparrow development along Michigan.
-Rezoning of Walter French to F-1 commercial for the purpose of converting "the building at 1900 S.
Cedar Street into a mix of commercial, office and multiple family residential uses..." It goes on to say that the plan calls for 91 residential units and 75k sq ft of office, recreational and commercial space.
-Rezoning of Oliver towers to G-1 business district with no information on any specific plans.
-Rezoning for Sparrows cancer addition and parking ramp. I posted the site plan in the Sparrow projects forum.