Anyone notice that the old Theo's (most recently Lee's Buffet) at Larch and Lake Lansing/Douglas on the northside has been completely razed? Anyone know what's supposed to be going at this prominent corner?
I noticed that last week. I have no idea of any plans there, I don't recollect anything from the council meeting, so if there are any plans it's probably nothing special.
My dad was told that the state had to move some it's cables from poles behind the Town Center Building in preperation to tear it down. For those of you that don't know the Town Center building is the two floor building owned by Cooley at Capitol & Kalamazoo, it was proposed as a site for a performing arts center. I have no clue why they are tearing it down, though I assume it's simply for parking.
I'm glad to see this moving forward. In the article they say that the bottom floors of One Michigan Ave have already been boarded up in preperation for this. Has anyone noticed that themselves?
Christine Rook • clrook@lsj.com • November 11, 2008 • From Lansing State JournaL
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Bernero launched a community task force last month to come up with a spending plan for the money. The task force is targeting eight key areas of the city, including the neighborhoods of Urbandale, Oak Park and Baker Donora, a handful of sections on the city's north side and then the southwest quadrant where Davis lives.
In general, the goal is to put families into homes. There are a number of tools to accomplish that, such as offering direct down payment assistance for residents or demolishing and rebuilding run-down properties or rehabbing others. There's even a plan to create a "neighborhood empowerment center" in the Comstock Park area. The center would house services such as foreclosure-prevention counseling.
Abandoned homes attract trouble - vandals, drug users and thieves, looking to strip a house of its copper piping, according to city officials.
"This is a start," Bernero said of the $6 million grant. "It sounds like a lot of money, but really we are - in a sense - just scratching the surface of a very large problem."
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Crews preparing for eventual demolition of Kalamazoo St. warehouse
I'm glad to see this moving forward. In the article they say that the bottom floors of One Michigan Ave have already been boarded up in preperation for this. Has anyone noticed that themselves?