According to WIlX, J.C. Penny is putting a store into Eastwood. I'm wondering if it will be a new building, or if there is a vacancy that large? I can't seem to picture any vacancies of any of the anchors, so this must be a new construction, though, it's literally months since I've been up to Eastwood.
That's too bad. It would be nice to have seen a large anchor store like that move to a downtown location, similar to how East Lansing used to have a Jacobson's. Maybe one of the stores in Eastwood is planning to move out, and just hasn't announced it yet.
I had no expectation that such a store would move to downtown, and I'm not sure if there are any Penny stores in any downtown areas. That kind of stuff just doesn't happen anymore. I think Penny's will be a great fit in Eastwood, though, offering a slightly lower-price, but still quality, retailer.
Like, Lmich I definately would not expect J C Penny's to move downtown. But I'm sort of glad to hear of more development in Eastwood, I'm pretty confident it will be new construction.
I'm originally from Coldwater, and for many years there was a JC Penney downtown location. But it shutdown in the mid-90's. They had talked about moving to a different part of town, but there wasn't really anything suitable.
I wouldn't expect them to move downtown either, but I think that these are something that downtowns should pursue. What is really different from a downtown East Lansing and an Eastwood? Throughout most of downtown East Lansing, you can park within sight of the store that you would like to visit. Oftentimes, stores like JC Penny are left out of the discussion when trying to bring in destination tenants to a downtown.
We usually hear of movie theaters, other forms of entertainment, and bars. What happens when we have too much entertainment and not enough sustainable businesses that bring in business during the earlier hours of the day, and not at night?
It's good they say for reasons out of their control, because, I can not imagine it was for lack of foottraffic or business being literally a block from Cooley Law School Library and across the street from the Arbaugh.
Just looked over next Monday's council agenda and noticed that a New Faith Gardens, LLC wants to construct a 24 townhomes, and 24 senior citizen housing units in the 5300 block of Wise Road. This is a very suburban part of the city, and I suspect that New Faith Gardens, LLC has to be affiliated with one or more of the many, many churches that dot the landscape in this part of the city.
It's always good to hear about housing development occuring anywhere within the city.
LCC has purchased another building as they are expanding south in downtown. The bought Washington Court Place for $4.2 million at the corner of North Washington and Ionia. The building is 75,000 sq ft, and they have said they will not kick out the current tenants.
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We usually hear of movie theaters, other forms of entertainment, and bars. What happens when we have too much entertainment and not enough sustainable businesses that bring in business during the earlier hours of the day, and not at night?
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It's good they say for reasons out of their control, because, I can not imagine it was for lack of foottraffic or business being literally a block from Cooley Law School Library and across the street from the Arbaugh.
It's always good to hear about housing development occuring anywhere within the city.
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