It would be good if they could do more with the building itself. It still looks like a warehouse, and the art work on the outside walls needs to be improved, or re-done. I do like the exhibits inside. A nicer looking building and landscaping maybe with some outdoor exhibit area would draw more people. Perhaps they museum will be free to do what they want, when they want. The Mayor should be unhappy that people automatically are suspect of everything he does.
Wow this is really high quality in-fill! This is exactly the types of development that I hope to see spread throughout the city. I would rather have many more of these than a couple high rises. First we should fill in with these and then limit the taller buildings (5+ floors) to the immediate downtowns.
I'm late once again buy I just wanted to chime in on the RE Olds museum sale. I'm really glad to see them own their building and I agree that their best bet is to sell and move to a more prominent location. If they had more resources I'd still love to see them get the John Bean Building, but perhaps more realistically they could get something like the building at Hazel & Hosmer (It was recently listed for sale for around $600k). I'd mostly just like to see them get an old industrial building of some sort.
Also, I have to say that what they're doing in the back of 515 Ionia looks great. I'm really glad that those buildings are finally getting some attention.
This plan looks really good. I also think projects like this reusing old buildings are more interesting than building something new. This near northwest side of downtown has a lot of people living in the area and there are really no services at all. I hope the commercial spaces are filled with businesses that offer something to the neighborhood.
I was at the downtown Post Office and noticed that they have removes all trees on the west side of the Capitol for the geo-thermal heating project. Just a thought but why did they have to do this directly behind the building? There are so many acres of surface parking lots just a block or two away, it seems like that would have been a better place for this. Digging up a parking lot instead of the Capitol lawn [I know there was a small parking lot behind the building] may have been cheaper and no need to cut down all the trees.
Well thank you. I did fully understand what they are doing. It was just a bit shocking to see the entire area under construction, which I also knew was going on. Just like the substation I'm sure it will be beautiful once it's done.
The news about 735 E Hazel becoming apartments is great, that's one of the main buildings I wanted to see renovated in the city. The multi-floor area of that building isn't very large though, to get 160 apartments I'd think they'd have to use some or all of the single floor sections of the building for residential. That will make for some pretty interesting apartments with incredibly tall ceilings (maybe two floor apartments?). I'm very interested in seeing their plans.
It's great to see that apartment building on Pere Marquette moving forward also. The building looks like it'll be pretty mediocre but I'm really glad to see a midrise on that street, hopefully there's much more to come.
I'm very disappointed to hear about the 30 year condition to the RE Olds museum sale. Not only should the R E Olds museum be encouraged to move for its own sake, but also for the sake of redeveloping Museum Drive. (...beginning rant about my idea for the area...)To me the ideal future of this are has always been pretty clear, a plinth should be built at the level of Michigan Ave with Museum Dr running south on top of the plinth, in a perfect world it would connect to Kalamazoo and maybe even to Grand via a bridge. There would be room for a handful of mid to high rises, one or two of which could face Michigan.
From the article, "Before the office, many Deloitte employees were housed within state buildings, working alongside State of Michigan clients on IT and consulting projects."
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It would be good if they could do more with the building itself. It still looks like a warehouse, and the art work on the outside walls needs to be improved, or re-done. I do like the exhibits inside. A nicer looking building and landscaping maybe with some outdoor exhibit area would draw more people. Perhaps they museum will be free to do what they want, when they want. The Mayor should be unhappy that people automatically are suspect of everything he does.
Wow this is really high quality in-fill! This is exactly the types of development that I hope to see spread throughout the city. I would rather have many more of these than a couple high rises. First we should fill in with these and then limit the taller buildings (5+ floors) to the immediate downtowns.
Yeah, I know that. But this is the type of re-use that we need. In addition, we could have new builds that match this same style.
I'm late once again buy I just wanted to chime in on the RE Olds museum sale. I'm really glad to see them own their building and I agree that their best bet is to sell and move to a more prominent location. If they had more resources I'd still love to see them get the John Bean Building, but perhaps more realistically they could get something like the building at Hazel & Hosmer (It was recently listed for sale for around $600k). I'd mostly just like to see them get an old industrial building of some sort.
Also, I have to say that what they're doing in the back of 515 Ionia looks great. I'm really glad that those buildings are finally getting some attention.
This plan looks really good. I also think projects like this reusing old buildings are more interesting than building something new. This near northwest side of downtown has a lot of people living in the area and there are really no services at all. I hope the commercial spaces are filled with businesses that offer something to the neighborhood.
I was at the downtown Post Office and noticed that they have removes all trees on the west side of the Capitol for the geo-thermal heating project. Just a thought but why did they have to do this directly behind the building? There are so many acres of surface parking lots just a block or two away, it seems like that would have been a better place for this. Digging up a parking lot instead of the Capitol lawn [I know there was a small parking lot behind the building] may have been cheaper and no need to cut down all the trees.
Well thank you. I did fully understand what they are doing. It was just a bit shocking to see the entire area under construction, which I also knew was going on. Just like the substation I'm sure it will be beautiful once it's done.
The news about 735 E Hazel becoming apartments is great, that's one of the main buildings I wanted to see renovated in the city. The multi-floor area of that building isn't very large though, to get 160 apartments I'd think they'd have to use some or all of the single floor sections of the building for residential. That will make for some pretty interesting apartments with incredibly tall ceilings (maybe two floor apartments?). I'm very interested in seeing their plans.
It's great to see that apartment building on Pere Marquette moving forward also. The building looks like it'll be pretty mediocre but I'm really glad to see a midrise on that street, hopefully there's much more to come.
I'm very disappointed to hear about the 30 year condition to the RE Olds museum sale. Not only should the R E Olds museum be encouraged to move for its own sake, but also for the sake of redeveloping Museum Drive. (...beginning rant about my idea for the area...)To me the ideal future of this are has always been pretty clear, a plinth should be built at the level of Michigan Ave with Museum Dr running south on top of the plinth, in a perfect world it would connect to Kalamazoo and maybe even to Grand via a bridge. There would be room for a handful of mid to high rises, one or two of which could face Michigan.
From the article, "Before the office, many Deloitte employees were housed within state buildings, working alongside State of Michigan clients on IT and consulting projects."
Also https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/footerlinks/office-locator/michigan/lansing.html lists 120 N Washington though Google Maps isn't so helpful in pointing me at that specific building (it takes me to One Michigan Avenue, which might be correct but they don't use that address).