This is a great plan! I am confused about whether it is just a plan or are they going to start building this soon? I am hoping that this plan along with the upstream improvements to the river banks is not going to be entirely dependent upon private sponsors and contributions. Maybe this has been all worked out, but if it has not I fear another great plan that never gets beyond a nice drawing.
@MichMatters I've been wondering that myself. I think you brought up that property recently, didn't you? I think you had looked it up and noticed it was still owned by the state, or am I thinking of something else?
Maybe "new" has different interpretations and they will subdivide Adado Park? I'm not sure that is legally possible though. Otherwise could it be on Museum Drive?
I drove by the Eastern High site yesterday, and I saw that they had cut down all the trees [of course they always do] and there was the trunk of one laying on its side that must have been 8 to 10 foot across! It would have to be over 100 years old to be that large. Too bad they could not have worked such a big old tree into the plan.
At the Lansing Center are they talking about the area with the gazzebo-like thing over to the area in front of the City Market. That will be nice, as that area is not really used by people other than to pass through. There is also a green space between Museum Drive and Kalamazoo behind the water plant. Maybe all of that area. I am thinking of the drawings that were out a while back that showed slopping banks with water plants and little coves along both side sof the Michigan Ave bridge.
PS I am glad the Quakers will finally have their own fields of dreams. Does Eastern play Sexton anymore? I went to Sexton and we used to be in the same league the 6-A/7-A. I see that Sexton is class-B these days.
It really does. It may even reignite the market a little bit. I know I'll be taking my kids down there all the time. It'd be nice if they did something with the underpass to make it a bit more accessible to the museum district. I mean, you can go under there right now but it's dark and ped walkways aren't that great.
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This is a great plan! I am confused about whether it is just a plan or are they going to start building this soon? I am hoping that this plan along with the upstream improvements to the river banks is not going to be entirely dependent upon private sponsors and contributions. Maybe this has been all worked out, but if it has not I fear another great plan that never gets beyond a nice drawing.
@MichMatters I've been wondering that myself. I think you brought up that property recently, didn't you? I think you had looked it up and noticed it was still owned by the state, or am I thinking of something else?
http://www.wilx.com/content/news/Rotary-Club-to-name-park-in-Lansing-481446091.html
It mentions that it’s on the riverfront near the Lansing Center.
I drove by the Eastern High site yesterday, and I saw that they had cut down all the trees [of course they always do] and there was the trunk of one laying on its side that must have been 8 to 10 foot across! It would have to be over 100 years old to be that large. Too bad they could not have worked such a big old tree into the plan.
At the Lansing Center are they talking about the area with the gazzebo-like thing over to the area in front of the City Market. That will be nice, as that area is not really used by people other than to pass through. There is also a green space between Museum Drive and Kalamazoo behind the water plant. Maybe all of that area. I am thinking of the drawings that were out a while back that showed slopping banks with water plants and little coves along both side sof the Michigan Ave bridge.
PS I am glad the Quakers will finally have their own fields of dreams. Does Eastern play Sexton anymore? I went to Sexton and we used to be in the same league the 6-A/7-A. I see that Sexton is class-B these days.
https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2018/05/11/riverfront-park-lansing-center-rotary-fireplace-concert-space-grand-river-trail/589852002/
Looks like it's going to be next to the city market. Love the idea of a light forest
Honestly...that sounds really cool.
It really does. It may even reignite the market a little bit. I know I'll be taking my kids down there all the time. It'd be nice if they did something with the underpass to make it a bit more accessible to the museum district. I mean, you can go under there right now but it's dark and ped walkways aren't that great.