I grabbed pics of a lot of the construction going on around downtown and out at MSU...
Grand Vista Place : The first elevator shaft is topped out
City Hall: The old parking lot has been tore up and footings are being drilled & poured
Riverview 220: The first elevator shaft is rising
Tower on Grand: There's a large drilling rig onsite, I think they've already been digging/pouring. Lots of rebar and caisson forms lying around
Walter Neller Building soon to be demolished:
Fish Ladder Music Park construction is in full swing, it'll be difficult to get good pictures of the progress:
Speaking of difficult to get pictures, the Student Wellness Center at MSU continues to be hard to capture:
MSU's new Outdoor Tennis Courts appear to be a bigger to do than I imagined. The new Digital Innovation Center should be getting underway next door as soon as Trustees authorize to proceed:
Plant and Environmental Science building is above ground:
The completed Multicultural Center and Farm Lane Bridge:
Great Pics! thank you. I believe that the new landscaping by the Farm Lane Bridge was just put in last week, it looks great! It looks like the "Greater Lansing's great graffiti artist" waited until school was out to tag the walls under this bridge. If you take note of the poor style and subject of these tags, I'd say that it is the same person who tags walls and buildings all over Lansing. I hope that criminal gets busted one day and has to pay for cleaning up all the messes they made.
One last photo update before things get interesting and these projects start going above ground. Here's to 3+ years of having multiple major buildings going up downtown:
It looks as if they may be done with foundation drilling for Tower on Grand, the base for the tower crane has been installed and one section of the crane is lying on site
Footings are poured for the new City Hall, there's currently a hole where I assume the elevator tower will rise:
All the elevator/stairwell towers at Riverview 220 appear complete, no wall panels on site here yet. On the left of the second pictures you can see that Grand Vista Place does have wall panels on site, so I expect we'll see that start to rise this week or next:
The lone loader recently delivered to the site of The Ovation:
...A few other construction updates while I'm at it:
I also noticed a dumpster and some fencing over at the Prudden Building at Washington & Michigan a couple weeks ago so I think we can call that one officially underway as well. Not activity yet at the Capitol Tower site, although they still have until the end of the month before they're even behind their initially scheduled start (Q2 2025). Sparrow seems very unrushed to make progress on any of their proposed projects. No visible work at The Iris/900 block of W Saginaw despite getting state grant money, hopefully it actually happens. Nothing happening at the Wheel District yet and I haven't checked on the new Prudden Wheel Lofts (if anyone has lmk). I rarely drive by the the new Public Safety Complex, but last time I did it appeared topped out. Walter French has gotten some solar carports and looks as though exterior work on the back section is finally done, it has turned out great. Miller's Crossing has completed one row of the single family homes facing Aurelius and two duplexes on a side street, not moving as fast as I expected after seeing their start.
If anyone knows of anything I've missed, including suburban projects, I'd like to hear about it. Anyone know if McLaren Grand Ledge is done yet? Sparrow Grand Ledge started? Bass Pro Shops underway? Haslett Village Square doing any major work? Anything happening at Dewitt Crossings (Clark & Airport)? Etc...?
At the neighborhood meeting we had with LHC they said that they bought the plaza and didn't know what they were going to do with it. I advocated for them to not build more housing in the area and will continue to do so. More LHC projects in my backyard would make it incredibly hard to stay in my neighborhood and if I'm forced out my neighborhood I will not be staying in the city.
First new stuff installed at the Fish Ladder Music Park (These might be the instruments intended to be played by parkgoers)
There was a crew onsite at The Ovation for a day or two to clear the parking lot and level everything out nice, now another waiting game.
The first vertical progress on the new City Hall
Second floor work on Grand Vista Place
First walls going up at Riverview 220
....And lastly, a couple pictures of the 4th of July fireworks. This years show was a bit different in that the fireworks were shot off from the Shiawassee St Bridge instead of Oak Park, I think it was a good decision as this years show was the best in quite awhile. I think the location closer to Riverfront and the ballpark allowed them to get away with smaller and therefor more numerous fireworks.
Thanks. It really is great to see. Once the Tower on Grand gets to 10+ floors and Capitol Tower and Ovation are vertical it'll really feel like something is happening. To see major concrete work underway and the crane up at Tower on Grand is truly a relief.
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Grand Vista Place : The first elevator shaft is topped out
City Hall: The old parking lot has been tore up and footings are being drilled & poured
Riverview 220: The first elevator shaft is rising
Tower on Grand: There's a large drilling rig onsite, I think they've already been digging/pouring. Lots of rebar and caisson forms lying around
Walter Neller Building soon to be demolished:
Fish Ladder Music Park construction is in full swing, it'll be difficult to get good pictures of the progress:
Speaking of difficult to get pictures, the Student Wellness Center at MSU continues to be hard to capture:
MSU's new Outdoor Tennis Courts appear to be a bigger to do than I imagined. The new Digital Innovation Center should be getting underway next door as soon as Trustees authorize to proceed:
Plant and Environmental Science building is above ground:
The completed Multicultural Center and Farm Lane Bridge:
It looks as if they may be done with foundation drilling for Tower on Grand, the base for the tower crane has been installed and one section of the crane is lying on site
Footings are poured for the new City Hall, there's currently a hole where I assume the elevator tower will rise:
All the elevator/stairwell towers at Riverview 220 appear complete, no wall panels on site here yet. On the left of the second pictures you can see that Grand Vista Place does have wall panels on site, so I expect we'll see that start to rise this week or next:
The lone loader recently delivered to the site of The Ovation:
...A few other construction updates while I'm at it:
I also noticed a dumpster and some fencing over at the Prudden Building at Washington & Michigan a couple weeks ago so I think we can call that one officially underway as well. Not activity yet at the Capitol Tower site, although they still have until the end of the month before they're even behind their initially scheduled start (Q2 2025). Sparrow seems very unrushed to make progress on any of their proposed projects. No visible work at The Iris/900 block of W Saginaw despite getting state grant money, hopefully it actually happens. Nothing happening at the Wheel District yet and I haven't checked on the new Prudden Wheel Lofts (if anyone has lmk). I rarely drive by the the new Public Safety Complex, but last time I did it appeared topped out. Walter French has gotten some solar carports and looks as though exterior work on the back section is finally done, it has turned out great. Miller's Crossing has completed one row of the single family homes facing Aurelius and two duplexes on a side street, not moving as fast as I expected after seeing their start.
If anyone knows of anything I've missed, including suburban projects, I'd like to hear about it. Anyone know if McLaren Grand Ledge is done yet? Sparrow Grand Ledge started? Bass Pro Shops underway? Haslett Village Square doing any major work? Anything happening at Dewitt Crossings (Clark & Airport)? Etc...?
Tower on Grand
Walter Neller Building demolition continuing
First new stuff installed at the Fish Ladder Music Park (These might be the instruments intended to be played by parkgoers)
There was a crew onsite at The Ovation for a day or two to clear the parking lot and level everything out nice, now another waiting game.
The first vertical progress on the new City Hall
Second floor work on Grand Vista Place
First walls going up at Riverview 220
....And lastly, a couple pictures of the 4th of July fireworks. This years show was a bit different in that the fireworks were shot off from the Shiawassee St Bridge instead of Oak Park, I think it was a good decision as this years show was the best in quite awhile. I think the location closer to Riverfront and the ballpark allowed them to get away with smaller and therefor more numerous fireworks.
Grand Vista Place:
City Hall
Riverview 220
Tower on Grand
Walter Neller site cleared with no signs of imminent new construction (surprising, I know)
Houses cleared for Capitol Tower
A small glimpse at what's going on at Fish Ladder Music Park
MSU's Plant and Environmental Science Building