As an interim thing, the towers should be lit up at night with subtle color tones - purple for breast-cancer awareness month, green-and-white for big game days, etc.
I like the capitol, but I never really see it as a Lansing icon, more of a state. I know it's on our seal and all, but it's never really been much of a reflection on who we are as a city to me.
Smokestacks are 615' per wikipedia. I had never known, but your comment prompted me to check it out.
My idea for the Eckert Station is to turn it into a resort style hotel and indoor water park, I also think that using the smokestacks for attractions such as a swing, bungee or zipline would be a great thing to add. I imagine that a winter garden-style glass canopy would wrap angle down from the north side of the building wrapping around the smokestacks making space for the indoor water park. I've started a 3d model of it but making the glass canopy is going to be difficult for me to make look the way I want it to given my abilities. Here's a rough outline of what I'd be talking about, just to give some scale:
The new logo is OK, but when I first saw it I did not think "oh that is a reference to the 3 smokestacks", they are all the same height for one thing. There is a jewelry company named Effy that uses a very similar font and logo. To me, if you are going to reference the smokestacks why be so vague about it? I do use the towers as a landmark, and they are kind of unique, like the smokestacks in London featured on the Pink Floyd album cover for "Animals", I'm trying to say I think the towers are cooler looking than this logo indicates. I would not hate it if they did take them down, however. Telling the world we don't use coal anymore!
@gbdinlansing if you look at the stacks from an angle you will see how well the new logo represents them. But there's also dual meaning. The logo can also represent growth as a rising bar chart, or it could be seen as progress. It's a pretty great logo in my opinion, which is contrary to FB comment sections..unsurprisingly.
I've been on the roof of Eckert and those stacks are much wider in circumference than they look from afar. I'm not an engineer, but it wouldn't surprise me that there's some viability there for something to be built in them.
WKAR published a short story on how the city updated the approval criteria for provisioning centers. Looks like they have added additional entries to try and steer them away from heavily residential districts. This will only apply to phase 2 applicants, of which there are only going to be 5 of. Phase 1 had 20 approvals supposedly.
On this note, is there a publicly available map of where the approved facilities are located?
I look at the stacks every day they are right outside my window and I have never seen this angle, but the logo is fine with me! Just a little basic. I have been wondering if they could use the cement stacks as a core/base for a building around the stacks?
This seems misguided and unfair. Is another brewery what we need in our public market? Why would the city want one operation out for basically the same kind of business replacing the one business that made it in that building? I have to wonder about breweries and brew-pubs. How many is too many, how long will this craft beer fad last? Who knows it may just go on and on and if they all make it, Great. I have only been to one HopCat which was OK but not really remarkable. The new one on Michigan Avenue has yet to put up a sign. The one under construction in REOtown is moving along with another set of windows installed this week. I am not really a craft beer fan, give me a Labatt Blue, please! I was hoping that the city would just take the pole barn down and build something really great there.
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As an interim thing, the towers should be lit up at night with subtle color tones - purple for breast-cancer awareness month, green-and-white for big game days, etc.
I like the capitol, but I never really see it as a Lansing icon, more of a state. I know it's on our seal and all, but it's never really been much of a reflection on who we are as a city to me.
Smokestacks are 615' per wikipedia. I had never known, but your comment prompted me to check it out.
615' Dang! That's pretty impressive. Thanks for fact-checking
(they still feel like 1,300')
for point of reference, the Renaissance Center is 727'
My idea for the Eckert Station is to turn it into a resort style hotel and indoor water park, I also think that using the smokestacks for attractions such as a swing, bungee or zipline would be a great thing to add. I imagine that a winter garden-style glass canopy would wrap angle down from the north side of the building wrapping around the smokestacks making space for the indoor water park. I've started a 3d model of it but making the glass canopy is going to be difficult for me to make look the way I want it to given my abilities. Here's a rough outline of what I'd be talking about, just to give some scale:
The new logo is OK, but when I first saw it I did not think "oh that is a reference to the 3 smokestacks", they are all the same height for one thing. There is a jewelry company named Effy that uses a very similar font and logo. To me, if you are going to reference the smokestacks why be so vague about it? I do use the towers as a landmark, and they are kind of unique, like the smokestacks in London featured on the Pink Floyd album cover for "Animals", I'm trying to say I think the towers are cooler looking than this logo indicates. I would not hate it if they did take them down, however. Telling the world we don't use coal anymore!
@gbdinlansing if you look at the stacks from an angle you will see how well the new logo represents them. But there's also dual meaning. The logo can also represent growth as a rising bar chart, or it could be seen as progress. It's a pretty great logo in my opinion, which is contrary to FB comment sections..unsurprisingly.
I've been on the roof of Eckert and those stacks are much wider in circumference than they look from afar. I'm not an engineer, but it wouldn't surprise me that there's some viability there for something to be built in them.
https://www.lansingmi.gov/DocumentCenter/View/7356/Phase-2-Provisioning-Center-License-Application-Criteria-FINAL
WKAR published a short story on how the city updated the approval criteria for provisioning centers. Looks like they have added additional entries to try and steer them away from heavily residential districts. This will only apply to phase 2 applicants, of which there are only going to be 5 of. Phase 1 had 20 approvals supposedly.
On this note, is there a publicly available map of where the approved facilities are located?
I look at the stacks every day they are right outside my window and I have never seen this angle, but the logo is fine with me! Just a little basic. I have been wondering if they could use the cement stacks as a core/base for a building around the stacks?
This seems misguided and unfair. Is another brewery what we need in our public market? Why would the city want one operation out for basically the same kind of business replacing the one business that made it in that building? I have to wonder about breweries and brew-pubs. How many is too many, how long will this craft beer fad last? Who knows it may just go on and on and if they all make it, Great. I have only been to one HopCat which was OK but not really remarkable. The new one on Michigan Avenue has yet to put up a sign. The one under construction in REOtown is moving along with another set of windows installed this week. I am not really a craft beer fan, give me a Labatt Blue, please! I was hoping that the city would just take the pole barn down and build something really great there.