It is true that Holmes Street School is located in an area that is cut off by highways rail tracks and the river thus many dead ends. I was just pointing out that if you take the routes that lead out of this area you can find yourself on Michigan Ave, downtown and East Lansing very quickly, this may appeal to potential residents of the Holmes School renovation. I find this neighborhood like many that surround the downtown area, and if you are going to live in a downtown neighborhood you are going to find some poor housing and not so great retail options. I'm not really trying to debate on the Holmes School project, I just think it will be successful despite its location in a somewhat isolated neighborhood. This could lead to the whole neighborhood improving as well, nearby there is some talk of repurposing the BWL site at Hazel and Penn. Ave for housing along with the Wing project.
I was a bit disappointed to see that they want to develop the Capitol Ave side of the "500" block, first rather than the S.Washington side. The drawings include a parking lot on S. Washington[I hate walking by this hot/cold dirty broken lot] which may be developed if the other buildings are successful. I think that a new building on S. Washington would have a larger impact on the south side of downtown but I am happy to see the area being redeveloped. I hope that the re-hab of the Lake Trust building will be a bit more dramatic than the depiction.
Another site that has work ongoing is on E. Kalamazoo across and up from Art's. It is a small complex of buildings where they are digging up a lot of soil and replacing bricks in the former window frames. The house next door is also being remodeled, but next door to that one is a house that should be vacated and torn down. I see people there when I go to the QD but the place looks inhabitable.
I am finding this to be a very exciting time to be living in Lansing, right now there are so many new projects underway with more in the planning stage, after waiting for years to see these things get started one almost would not believe it. Add some newly paved streets and it feels like real progress is being made around here.
Sounds like an MJ growing operation. There is one already in the big old black building at the corner, so maybe it is something different as they might not want to have two MJ growing farms in one block.
I can often smell marijuana as I drive by on Hosmer. Of course, that does not bother me! I am hoping that when all of these grow operations start producing the prices will fall due to competition. It is actually a medicine that helps a lot of people [that happens to be pleasant to use] so I don't want to see low income and elderly people to be priced out of the legal market.
I have noticed there a sidewalk protection scaffold put up around the "Bank of Lansing" building at N. Washington and Michigan Ave again. Is there a renovation going on there? The storefront renovation next door looks nice, I would guess that a law firm is moving in there. Across the street, they finally put up nice new green awnings on the ground floor of the MSUFCU building, [I don't know that building's name]
That is good news, this building is really beautiful and has a very prominent address which should be full and active. Thanks for the information.
Has there been a date set for a beginning work first shovel ceremony at the Red Cedar site? It will be good to see this one really get underway.
City Pulse has an article on the early results of the performing arts center feasibility study. The consultant they spoke to suggested a main hall capacity of 1,400 and a smaller venue holding around 200 people, he says these are conservative numbers. They are also planning space for the Lansing Art Gallery. This would make for a building of about 120k sq ft of which 80k would be usable, cost is estimated at $40-$60 million.
I'm thinking the best possible location for this would probably be on the half of the Lake Trust block that faces Washington. Any thoughts on other possible locations? I feel like the Stadium District is already saturated with entertainment options, it'd be nice to spread things out a little.
The Washington Ave side of the Lake Trust block would be a great place to build a PAC. I would like to see that dead space filled with beautiful buildings as it seems like they are going to develop the Capitol Ave. side first. Grand Avenue would also be a good spot, maybe the vacant LSJ site or the old Michigan/Strand theater using the parts of the structure that are still there. I agree that a PAC built in an area other than the Studium District would be more beneficial to the city by enlivening another district.
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I was a bit disappointed to see that they want to develop the Capitol Ave side of the "500" block, first rather than the S.Washington side. The drawings include a parking lot on S. Washington[I hate walking by this hot/cold dirty broken lot] which may be developed if the other buildings are successful. I think that a new building on S. Washington would have a larger impact on the south side of downtown but I am happy to see the area being redeveloped. I hope that the re-hab of the Lake Trust building will be a bit more dramatic than the depiction.
I am finding this to be a very exciting time to be living in Lansing, right now there are so many new projects underway with more in the planning stage, after waiting for years to see these things get started one almost would not believe it. Add some newly paved streets and it feels like real progress is being made around here.
Has there been a date set for a beginning work first shovel ceremony at the Red Cedar site? It will be good to see this one really get underway.
https://www.lansingcitypulse.com/stories/sharper-vision,13429?
I'm thinking the best possible location for this would probably be on the half of the Lake Trust block that faces Washington. Any thoughts on other possible locations? I feel like the Stadium District is already saturated with entertainment options, it'd be nice to spread things out a little.