I hope that there is another architect in Lansing that could come up with something better that this. This style or school of design should be left to history and should not dominate the central core of our city more than it already does.
Maybe they got lazy for the conceptual "PLACE YOUR BUILDING HERE" thing. I agree though, no more of this look, it looks bad for the city when every new development from this group looks like it came from a boxed set.
I saw somewhere on Facebook that the owners of Clara's are closing it because they sold the property. So maybe this will get reopened as a new type of restaurant or something else. It could make a really cool train-themed bed & breakfast.
If it's true that they're closing because someone bought the property then I'd bet that there's something already in the works. It could be pretty cool as a bed and breakfast, it would require building a new annex for guestrooms but there's plenty of room there for that. One of the things I'm wondering is whether any new plans might include some form of new construction, it'll be interesting to see what comes of this.
No need for an annex, roll up an old sleeper car and the bed & breakfast is ready for business
Could even add a subtle bounce and roll along with TV screens covering the windows to simulate that the train is moving. Play a bit of audio and the simulation is complete lol
I saw a very interesting program on PBS in their series called ten things that changed the country. This one was called Ten city parks that changed the country. A very interesting look at the beginnings of the common space to the modern parks of today. What I thought related to Lansing was the progressive theory that parks should offer everyone of all classes a place to recreate. We have many pieces of the parks they showcase here in Lansing. I would have to say I get park envy when I see how other cities have built and maintained their public parks. We have the bones to have many of the attractions of those ten parks. I would like to see our parks go from nice to really spectacular, we should not just settle for the way the parks are taken care of and thought of as a commodity to be sold off or developed into utility sites.
Also I was wondering why they have not been mowing the grass at any of the public schools that I have passed by these past few weeks. At Sexton there are four foot tall weeds growing in the sidewalk median in front of the school. I guess they will get to it but I think it sends a really bad message to our students and anyone who may be passing by, like me looking at homes in the neighborhood. Has it really come to the point we can't mow the grass at our schools?
This is big news, there's just not enough info now to do much more than ask questions at this point. From the sound of the article the new hospital would be in the tech park itself since it said that it would be on "property owned by MSU that is technically not part of the school's campus".
The property in the tech park is owned by the MSU Foundation. I found that out by accident last week. There's a sign in front of 4000 Collins Rd saying that MSU Foundation is moving there from the north side of the tech park. Living as close as I do to this area I have mixed feelings about the possible hospital here though.
I like the idea of MSU building a hospital in Lansing. The present location of "Lansing General" I'm not sure what they call it now, has always seemed strange to me. In the old days there was no ramp off Penn. and you had to drive down the local residential streets to get there. So building a new hospital somewhere else would be a good idea. However it seems like they are going from one odd location to another odd location. I was thinking this as I drove out to the central Post Office out there in the corn fields. Why did they put the Post Office out there? Why would they build a hospital out there? I can think of many reasons not to, and not many that say this is the place to build a hospital. If it has to be in that area, how about where the closed hotel is.
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Could even add a subtle bounce and roll along with TV screens covering the windows to simulate that the train is moving. Play a bit of audio and the simulation is complete lol
Also I was wondering why they have not been mowing the grass at any of the public schools that I have passed by these past few weeks. At Sexton there are four foot tall weeds growing in the sidewalk median in front of the school. I guess they will get to it but I think it sends a really bad message to our students and anyone who may be passing by, like me looking at homes in the neighborhood. Has it really come to the point we can't mow the grass at our schools?