I sort of think that LCC will go ahead with building their new ramp on the University Center property. The N Capitol Ramp is near the end of it's usable life, on one hand it would allow them room to expand in the future, but they would be buying an already outdated structure. Either way the city is going to be needing to build a new ramp in the relatively near future.
BTW, the city is discussing purchasing the Boarshead Theater. The city says that they will allow Boarshead to use it until they build a new Performing Arts Center, then they will build a new parking ramp on that site.
And this garage will really open the door for more high-density, mid to high rise development in that immdediate area, which is a great area for downtown to expand into.
Not sure if there's already a thread on this, and I'm not going to be much help in creating one, but I do remember seeing that there's a project going on at Olds Park where they seem to be putting in sort of a luxury clubhouse in the terrace in left field to replace the current food/beer stand that is there currently. I think it would include an actual sit-down restaurant. Anyone have any more info on it?
Bernero was quoted saying this in his State of the Cit y address: “Next month we’ll announce yet another major new development in the heart of downtown.” I'm going to guess that this will be either the "Association Project," or maybe the rennovation of Knapps.
I'm hoping for the renovation of Knapps. As much as I would like to see the Association Project announced, it would be nice to see such a large building as Knapps to finally get some use. It's hard to keep that part of downtown sustainable with such a large vacant building. East Lansing has that problem due to the large Citizens Bank building at the corner of Grand River and Abbot.
The Association Project is a proposed office building that will be targeted towards various State assciations. They haven't announced where it will be or how large it will be other that it will be significant.
Downtown has fairly low office vacancy rates, there seems to be a demand for space downtown in general. There is virtually no class A office space available downtown over like 10,000 dq ft. There is a lack of available retail also, up and down washington sq there are only about 4 vacant storefronts, 3 of them in the 400 block.
BTW, Kellys wil be closing on February 2nd to move to their new location, next to Decker's.
I tried digging through the meeting minutes from last week's council meeting, but I couldn't really see anything relating to the K-Zoo Gateway project (I read something somewhere that said it had been renamed Lansing Gateway). And since tonight was the latest meeting, it doesn't look like we'll be able to get the info. Maybe something happened tonight.
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BTW, the city is discussing purchasing the Boarshead Theater. The city says that they will allow Boarshead to use it until they build a new Performing Arts Center, then they will build a new parking ramp on that site.
BTW, Kellys wil be closing on February 2nd to move to their new location, next to Decker's.