Do you have a specific address? Everything is listed by parcel, and without an address to look up the property data I wouldn't know how to find the parcel.
I found my house on Park Ave, and I think I am in the photo standing in the front yard! I don't know how to link it but the number is 3301 20 408 051-1 if you have any interest in seeing me and my bike in 1963, it is a bit out of focus. I think it so cool to see this and the other photos. So many tiny old houses, and lots of kids in the yards and cars parked where ever.
Wow so cool, you are a celebrity @gdbinlansing! Yeah, kids don't spend as much time outdoors anymore, and there's a lot more rules about where cars can be parked etc. I wish people spent more time outside, we've got a great climate here that has all four seasons and there's always something new to see and enjoy.
Also, has anyone heard what is going on at Consumers Concrete on Malcolm X St? For the past month they have been cleaning up their lot. A bunch of stacked blocks were bulldozed together and removed. The back portion of their lot is also showing signs of being cleaned up. At least one pole barn has been brought down also. Just curious as I see these changes but haven't seen anything about them.
Thank you for posting the photo of my childhood home. At times there were nine family members living in that house with one bathroom that only had a bathtub no shower. I had just turned eight years old and that was my new birthday bike. Now I'm afraid you all know just how old I' am! I get my first social security check next month! Yeaa!
Those woods by Victor were kind of the edge of our neighborhood and was where local kids would go when they were running away from home but wanted to be found. Is it a nice neighborhood now? People react the same way everywhere, it is always kind of nasty, it was the same when we built our place out east we were "those people".
@MichMatters I'm also glad to see infill development in that neighborhood, duplexes certainly aren't ideal but they're better than vacant land. The neighbors complaining is predictable and somewhat justified given the lack of duplexes currently in the neighborhood, hopefully they'll at least get better quality construction and landscaping for their efforts. For what it's worth, if Reid was throwing out the idea of 6 single family rentals as a viable option then I would prefer that they go with that plan, I'm sure the neighbors would also.
@cliffordzang I saw that the back wall of one of the pole barns had collapsed at some point, they had an excavator out cleaning that up several months ago but that pole barn was left standing for awhile after I saw that. I haven't been by there since anything you're talking about has been done so I can't speak to it. I do hope to see this property cleaned up along with the other commercial properties along that stretch, their condition isn't helping that neighborhood any. The concrete place in particular might be a good spot for a small apartment complex, a little retail space here could be great for the area also.
It seems like they are really pushing the City Hall sale and redevelopment. I saw those drawings again on the LSJ site. I think they were saying these are only ideas of what might go in there. I am glad about that because the drawings are really bad, they look like an apartment block outside of Shanghai, and not in a good way.
I'm expecting a proposal will come in at the 11th hour, deliberately so no other developer has time to look at it and modify their own before submitting.
The timeline for this is very aggressive, and I believe it's due to two reasons: 1, Virg doesn't have a lot of time left in office and he would need to do it because nobody else will (I disagree that this project should be done), and 2, I believe that there was a developer working on this for many months before it became public.
There's no way that a developer could put together such a large proposal in literally three weeks.
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Do you have a specific address? Everything is listed by parcel, and without an address to look up the property data I wouldn't know how to find the parcel.
I found my house on Park Ave, and I think I am in the photo standing in the front yard! I don't know how to link it but the number is 3301 20 408 051-1 if you have any interest in seeing me and my bike in 1963, it is a bit out of focus. I think it so cool to see this and the other photos. So many tiny old houses, and lots of kids in the yards and cars parked where ever.
haha, that's pretty cool; https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_263/023/201706003072-82.jpg
Wow so cool, you are a celebrity @gdbinlansing! Yeah, kids don't spend as much time outdoors anymore, and there's a lot more rules about where cars can be parked etc. I wish people spent more time outside, we've got a great climate here that has all four seasons and there's always something new to see and enjoy.
Not a huge thing but it was announced yesterday that Culver's is building a new store near the South Penn Meijer. http://www.wilx.com/content/news/Culvers-coming-to-south-Lansing-439958333.html
Also, has anyone heard what is going on at Consumers Concrete on Malcolm X St? For the past month they have been cleaning up their lot. A bunch of stacked blocks were bulldozed together and removed. The back portion of their lot is also showing signs of being cleaned up. At least one pole barn has been brought down also. Just curious as I see these changes but haven't seen anything about them.
Thank you for posting the photo of my childhood home. At times there were nine family members living in that house with one bathroom that only had a bathtub no shower. I had just turned eight years old and that was my new birthday bike. Now I'm afraid you all know just how old I' am! I get my first social security check next month! Yeaa!
Those woods by Victor were kind of the edge of our neighborhood and was where local kids would go when they were running away from home but wanted to be found. Is it a nice neighborhood now? People react the same way everywhere, it is always kind of nasty, it was the same when we built our place out east we were "those people".
@MichMatters I'm also glad to see infill development in that neighborhood, duplexes certainly aren't ideal but they're better than vacant land. The neighbors complaining is predictable and somewhat justified given the lack of duplexes currently in the neighborhood, hopefully they'll at least get better quality construction and landscaping for their efforts. For what it's worth, if Reid was throwing out the idea of 6 single family rentals as a viable option then I would prefer that they go with that plan, I'm sure the neighbors would also.
@cliffordzang I saw that the back wall of one of the pole barns had collapsed at some point, they had an excavator out cleaning that up several months ago but that pole barn was left standing for awhile after I saw that. I haven't been by there since anything you're talking about has been done so I can't speak to it. I do hope to see this property cleaned up along with the other commercial properties along that stretch, their condition isn't helping that neighborhood any. The concrete place in particular might be a good spot for a small apartment complex, a little retail space here could be great for the area also.
It seems like they are really pushing the City Hall sale and redevelopment. I saw those drawings again on the LSJ site. I think they were saying these are only ideas of what might go in there. I am glad about that because the drawings are really bad, they look like an apartment block outside of Shanghai, and not in a good way.
I'm expecting a proposal will come in at the 11th hour, deliberately so no other developer has time to look at it and modify their own before submitting.
The timeline for this is very aggressive, and I believe it's due to two reasons: 1, Virg doesn't have a lot of time left in office and he would need to do it because nobody else will (I disagree that this project should be done), and 2, I believe that there was a developer working on this for many months before it became public.
There's no way that a developer could put together such a large proposal in literally three weeks.