I think this is part of Sellers Ave, a city street. The entrance next to the Skyvue building has also been repaved it is called Morgan Lane on googlemaps. Looks like more trees and landscaping are being added as well. Now we can add another half mile to the 33 miles of good roads in Lansing.
The building seems to have withstood the fire inside pretty well. Maybe now QD will fix it up and remove the trees growing on the roof. Why not a QD store in the street front building? The neighborhood needs a convenience store. Right now the gas station at Moores River Drive with the bullet proof plastic walls inside, is the only store selling "food" from Kalamazoo Street to Holmes on S. Washington. I won't go in there because I don't think they need the bullet proof walls anymore and should take them down. {they may have I have not been in there in a while}
Ormond Park also had many of its old growth trees cut down to make way for the roadway. Unfortunately these can't be brought back no matter what the courts decide.
I'm pretty upset that Bernero tried to rush this through before he left office. It seems like a big last-minute play to increase LEPFA's control/revenue and take away property from the parks system. Soon LEPFA will probably sell sponsorship rights for the golf course and it will be surrounded by advertising billboards.
I am pretty sure there was a retail store where the bottling machines are now. It was the late 70's early 80's when I lived around the corner on Moores River Dr.. I did not go there often my folks still lived on Park Ave. so I went to the Pattengill store, but I can remember buying milk in plastic bags there.
I am not sure why the mayor thinks he should do this right away, but like the sunken garden they cut all those trees down right away so as to say this it happening and there is no going back we already cut down all the trees. There could have been another season in that garden. Any way in regards to the golf course I think it is a great asset to the city to have such a beautiful course, but I am not sure about the demographics of golfers, is that number growing? Should we be subsidizing a game that not that many people in Lansing play? I have written about this before maybe build a new club house off Wood and that building could be part of the LEPFA with function and meeting rooms and leave the golf course under the parks department.
Yes, the idea about building something off of Wood makes a lot more sense to me. But I don't think LEPFA is struggling to find meeting rooms, and I don't think that the city should be in the business of event hosting (excluding the Lansing Center). This is an area where I think private business can handle just fine without subsidies (see Eagle Eye for example).
Well I was thinking that a golf course clubhouse could serve more than one purpose and allow people who are not golfers to enjoy the green space. I'm thinking of weddings, Holiday parties, class reunions not really conventions or business meetings. We have that sort of thing going on in other parks why not at our golf course. I realize that there already private businesses that offer function rooms. It was just a thought on a possible salutation.
This clock looks great and I am so impressed that the owners wanted to do it right not cheap. Meanwhile I have been wondering about another clock downtown. The "Rotary Clock" at Michigan and Grand. It does tell time, but I have often wondered what else was it was suppose to do? It looks like some sort of steam works, did it whistle, or mark the hours with calliope music? Why doesn't the Rotary fix it. It is in a very prominent spot and is all surrounded by a weedy grass chocked seating area that is the last remnant of the textured cement wall craze of the 70's. There are nice flower boxes all along the bridge and then this little spot left unattended right in the middle of our downtown. I wrote to the parks dept. but it is still all weeds and grass there.
Thank you, I am happy to hear that the clock works! I guess I have never been in the area at that time the music plays. I like the clock and I will make a point of being there the hear it play. The area that is full of weeds is the seating area next to the clock at the west end of the Michigan Ave Bridge. They have nice flower boxes along the bridge, but it seems like they stopped at that.
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I think this is part of Sellers Ave, a city street. The entrance next to the Skyvue building has also been repaved it is called Morgan Lane on googlemaps. Looks like more trees and landscaping are being added as well. Now we can add another half mile to the 33 miles of good roads in Lansing.
As a last resort, the mural is detachable.
The building seems to have withstood the fire inside pretty well. Maybe now QD will fix it up and remove the trees growing on the roof. Why not a QD store in the street front building? The neighborhood needs a convenience store. Right now the gas station at Moores River Drive with the bullet proof plastic walls inside, is the only store selling "food" from Kalamazoo Street to Holmes on S. Washington. I won't go in there because I don't think they need the bullet proof walls anymore and should take them down. {they may have I have not been in there in a while}
Ormond Park also had many of its old growth trees cut down to make way for the roadway. Unfortunately these can't be brought back no matter what the courts decide.
I'm pretty upset that Bernero tried to rush this through before he left office. It seems like a big last-minute play to increase LEPFA's control/revenue and take away property from the parks system. Soon LEPFA will probably sell sponsorship rights for the golf course and it will be surrounded by advertising billboards.
I am pretty sure there was a retail store where the bottling machines are now. It was the late 70's early 80's when I lived around the corner on Moores River Dr.. I did not go there often my folks still lived on Park Ave. so I went to the Pattengill store, but I can remember buying milk in plastic bags there.
I am not sure why the mayor thinks he should do this right away, but like the sunken garden they cut all those trees down right away so as to say this it happening and there is no going back we already cut down all the trees. There could have been another season in that garden. Any way in regards to the golf course I think it is a great asset to the city to have such a beautiful course, but I am not sure about the demographics of golfers, is that number growing? Should we be subsidizing a game that not that many people in Lansing play? I have written about this before maybe build a new club house off Wood and that building could be part of the LEPFA with function and meeting rooms and leave the golf course under the parks department.
Yes, the idea about building something off of Wood makes a lot more sense to me. But I don't think LEPFA is struggling to find meeting rooms, and I don't think that the city should be in the business of event hosting (excluding the Lansing Center). This is an area where I think private business can handle just fine without subsidies (see Eagle Eye for example).
Well I was thinking that a golf course clubhouse could serve more than one purpose and allow people who are not golfers to enjoy the green space. I'm thinking of weddings, Holiday parties, class reunions not really conventions or business meetings. We have that sort of thing going on in other parks why not at our golf course. I realize that there already private businesses that offer function rooms. It was just a thought on a possible salutation.
This clock looks great and I am so impressed that the owners wanted to do it right not cheap. Meanwhile I have been wondering about another clock downtown. The "Rotary Clock" at Michigan and Grand. It does tell time, but I have often wondered what else was it was suppose to do? It looks like some sort of steam works, did it whistle, or mark the hours with calliope music? Why doesn't the Rotary fix it. It is in a very prominent spot and is all surrounded by a weedy grass chocked seating area that is the last remnant of the textured cement wall craze of the 70's. There are nice flower boxes all along the bridge and then this little spot left unattended right in the middle of our downtown. I wrote to the parks dept. but it is still all weeds and grass there.
Thank you, I am happy to hear that the clock works! I guess I have never been in the area at that time the music plays. I like the clock and I will make a point of being there the hear it play. The area that is full of weeds is the seating area next to the clock at the west end of the Michigan Ave Bridge. They have nice flower boxes along the bridge, but it seems like they stopped at that.