Ok, I misunderstood Mich - honestly, I wouldn't want to live in a container construct either! But, as gbd indicates, some folks will love this layout.
As much as I am loathe to see more early 20th century store frontage (Brogan's) torn down on Michigan Ave, I am looking forward to seeing some infill on that old gas station lot. It is definitely the right time to build those lots into something mixed-use, I hope they get to building soon. That particular site reminds me a similar situation further down on Michigan Ave - the empty lot next to the hot tub store across the street from The Venue and the unfinished brewpub. Seems like the perfect spot for a 3-5 story mixed-use building.
Wow, maybe this is the real thing. This will be so nice if they do build it. I still want to see ribbons cut and shovels in the dirt before getting too excited. This project added to the old Y and the new city hall is going to put a lot of people on the south side of downtown. Perhaps this will spur the development of the other vacant lots in the area. I would really like to see the surface lot next to Knapp's developed, there are a lot of spaces down there that may become attractive to develop. These Urban Systems guys seem to have good ideas, I hope it all happens.
I don't have much to add on the mayor's state-of-the-city, I missed it also. The LSJ, you may have seen has an article. I like his mention of transparency and road funding for instance.
That is very interesting information, thank you. It is a large area, I guess we can look forward to that corner looking very colorful soon. Barnard looks to have a couple of 19th-century houses but this is a very isolated street, I'm sure no one will be fighting to save a couple of the nicer antique houses, the rest of the area is mainly blacktop. There is a nice hill that would offer some great views from apartments built up there.
It would be amazing to see all of these different projects get underway this year. Seems like there would be hundreds of construction workers with jobs in Lansing if all the planned projects get started soon, adding to the workers at sites already under construction.
Wow! 3.6 acres in the middle of a city is a huge chunk of land! There is really a ton of potential here. I'm excited to see what gets proposed. I do think the brick house at the end of Barnard looks nice, and it would be cool if they could keep it and incorporate it in to the development. The mixed architecture would make the development look really neat, but I'm not hopeful and the fact it's at a dead end won't help.
I have never been up there, I was looking at googlemaps. The June of 2011 must have had really nice weather. There are many streets including Barnard that still have the 2011 googlemaps pictures and they are always so pretty that they make a not so great neighborhood look good!
Quite a different scene than out my window today. I went for a winter walk to Moores Park, they still have been keeping the river very low. The low water gives the river a much more natural appearance[in the snow anyway] with sandbars and sloped banks and the water running very clear and fast. One might think you were up north, lots of different water birds including six huge white swans in the open water by the park.
3.6 acres is just so much land that I don't think it actually will be that tall. They just don't have to build tall when they can build outwards. I expect that the building will be built similar to Stadium District, with a wide building fronting Michigan Ave and Larch, then surface parking in the back. I hope for two floors of parking with more floors of residential/office above but I'm trying to set reasonable expectations.
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Ok, I misunderstood Mich - honestly, I wouldn't want to live in a container construct either! But, as gbd indicates, some folks will love this layout.
As much as I am loathe to see more early 20th century store frontage (Brogan's) torn down on Michigan Ave, I am looking forward to seeing some infill on that old gas station lot. It is definitely the right time to build those lots into something mixed-use, I hope they get to building soon. That particular site reminds me a similar situation further down on Michigan Ave - the empty lot next to the hot tub store across the street from The Venue and the unfinished brewpub. Seems like the perfect spot for a 3-5 story mixed-use building.
Exciting news, I loved their plan for that block.
Wow, maybe this is the real thing. This will be so nice if they do build it. I still want to see ribbons cut and shovels in the dirt before getting too excited. This project added to the old Y and the new city hall is going to put a lot of people on the south side of downtown. Perhaps this will spur the development of the other vacant lots in the area. I would really like to see the surface lot next to Knapp's developed, there are a lot of spaces down there that may become attractive to develop. These Urban Systems guys seem to have good ideas, I hope it all happens.
I used to work at the Michigan Catholic Conference there across the street. Glad to see this area getting some attention.
I did not hear Andy's speech, did he have any big development news?
I don't have much to add on the mayor's state-of-the-city, I missed it also. The LSJ, you may have seen has an article. I like his mention of transparency and road funding for instance.
That is very interesting information, thank you. It is a large area, I guess we can look forward to that corner looking very colorful soon. Barnard looks to have a couple of 19th-century houses but this is a very isolated street, I'm sure no one will be fighting to save a couple of the nicer antique houses, the rest of the area is mainly blacktop. There is a nice hill that would offer some great views from apartments built up there.
It would be amazing to see all of these different projects get underway this year. Seems like there would be hundreds of construction workers with jobs in Lansing if all the planned projects get started soon, adding to the workers at sites already under construction.
Wow! 3.6 acres in the middle of a city is a huge chunk of land! There is really a ton of potential here. I'm excited to see what gets proposed. I do think the brick house at the end of Barnard looks nice, and it would be cool if they could keep it and incorporate it in to the development. The mixed architecture would make the development look really neat, but I'm not hopeful and the fact it's at a dead end won't help.
I have never been up there, I was looking at googlemaps. The June of 2011 must have had really nice weather. There are many streets including Barnard that still have the 2011 googlemaps pictures and they are always so pretty that they make a not so great neighborhood look good!
Quite a different scene than out my window today. I went for a winter walk to Moores Park, they still have been keeping the river very low. The low water gives the river a much more natural appearance[in the snow anyway] with sandbars and sloped banks and the water running very clear and fast. One might think you were up north, lots of different water birds including six huge white swans in the open water by the park.
Yeah I only saw Barnard through using Streetview.
3.6 acres is just so much land that I don't think it actually will be that tall. They just don't have to build tall when they can build outwards. I expect that the building will be built similar to Stadium District, with a wide building fronting Michigan Ave and Larch, then surface parking in the back. I hope for two floors of parking with more floors of residential/office above but I'm trying to set reasonable expectations.