While shopping downtown yesterday I noticed the entertainment venue on S. Washington has its front facade enclosed with nice-looking walls of glass windows and doors. They have also renovated the part of the exterior facade on the second floor. Now with the Summit games store expansion that whole block is full. I took a look at the new apartments on Hillsdale, they are looking pretty good clad with the same sort of exteriors you see on many new developments, nice colors, however. The "Sky Bridge" has some new metal "planks" on the sides that suggest something cool, but it is basically the same old bridge. Is the ice rink in Reutter Park in operation? I have never seen anyone there. I did not notice that the construction of the Ovation had begun, but I did see the "REOtown sign lot" development has started at least one more building. Take some time to shop downtown it's kind of fun with no big crowds the Capitol Tree looks so pretty this year. Also, the Cuban diner is super good as is the Turkish cafe, and the new pan-African restaurant is also very good!
Today's LSJ.com has an artical about the new improvements being made to the "City Market" building, now called 'Lansing Shuffle" I believe. It sounds better than I was expecting. It also sounds like a real business plan with several restaurants each with their own kitchen sharing sitting of about 150. They have real already successful restaurants opening in the food court and will open the shuffleboard courts later this year. Could be fun!
I noticed those houses boarded up too, they were in pretty sad shape, it would be noisy corner for a single-family home rehab. Too bad they did not buy the "apartment house" at 909. It looks beyond rehabilitation as well. On the south side of Cedar, a block south on Penn. the Darius Moon house there has recently been painted and looks very nice. There is a similar Victorian house on the block, I wonder if that is a Darius Moon house as well.
Hepler/H Inc. is focusing on this block and has some understanding with the Land Bank for a serious modular/prefab housing development, but yeah definitely not moving swiftly enough to see any results besides more dilapidated structures.
One of his LLC's does own the 909 structure.
@citykid To repeat Jared, Welcome. Thanks for the info. I like the things Hepler has done, I just wish he did more.
IMO the delay in the proposals for the Prudden parking lots may not be so bad anyhow, I was always hoping to see it split into a couple blocks and built out as more of a neighborhood as opposed to a few apartment buildings around a parking lot.
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One of his LLC's does own the 909 structure.
IMO the delay in the proposals for the Prudden parking lots may not be so bad anyhow, I was always hoping to see it split into a couple blocks and built out as more of a neighborhood as opposed to a few apartment buildings around a parking lot.