The gas station and Pizza Hut on the corner of Abbott and Saginaw are currently being torn down to make way for a Rite-Aid. This project is moving pretty quick, as Pizza Hut moved out only a couple months ago. The Rite-Aid will have a drive up window. Pizza Hut relocated to the Brookfield Shopping Center at the corner of Hagadorn and Grand River.
I've been slow to announce this, kind of waiting to see if anybody else would pick it up before me, but the City of East Lansing is looking in to installing four roundabouts on Lake Lansing Road by US-127.
The roundabouts would be installed at:
Coolidge and Lake Lansing
Both Lake Lansing & US-127 exits, and at
Lake Lansing and Preyde Blvd.
They claim that roundabouts don't work well unless there are more roundabouts nearby. This is on the agenda for tonights city council meeting and they are planning to spend 30 grand on more data. They don't expect the project to be finished until late 2009 or 2010.
I've been thinking about it, you know that stretch over by Stonehouse Village will going through some very significant growth and potential for growth in the near future.
Just think:
Stonehouse Village 1 has been built, finished, and occupied,
Stonehouse Village 2 development was stopped after the state wouldnt give funding to the developer (still means that there is a plan in sight)
Stonehouse Village 3 is under construction now, and will include a parking ramp (allowing higher densities in the area),
The new Broad Art Museum will be build right across Grand River (supposedly finished by 2010, if I remember right),
The parking lot behind Peanut Barrel, Campus Town Mall, and the old Taco Bell is being expanded (creating room for future growth).
The eastside of downtown East Lansing could become a nice little district in the next four years. It will be interesting to see how it transforms.
I got the copy of the RFP for Lot 1 just a couple minutes ago. I'll upload it later tonight, but some of the bullets to take from it are:
The redevelopment proposal must be "premier quality"
The project must be mixed-use with at least 20-25,000 sq ft of high quality first floor retail (including dining and entertainment), residential and/or commercial uses on upper floors, and sufficient parking to accommodate the project uses and replace the exisiting 148 spaces currently in Lot 1. Any residential components should include a majority (70% or greater) of units to be for sale owner-occupied units.
The RFP also mentions that they expect Museum Place to be under construction within the next 24 to 36 months, and that this project will have to coordinate with the heavy construction of the Museum Place development. There is no deadline for applications. This RFP is the result of the expiration of a previous Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a prior developer.
Please post up here what you think of the request. I thought it left a lot in the air, only really specifying ground floor retail, and not mentioning a minimum amount of square feet for the overall development. I also would like to see East Lansing look to incorporate office in some of the developments, but I understand that they are trying to create a vibrant community at night and many office buildings are completely shut down at night, negatively impacting the liveliness of the downtown area.
I agree, they make that very clear. It's just too bad that the previous developer fell through. It would have been really nice to see a 12 story condo tower in East Lansing.
The houses on Louis St are now being torn down. I went by today and there was a large backhoe tearing up some of the properties. The new development will be an apartment building that was spoken of earlier on this discussion.
I read somewhere in all the discussions, something about the area near Hagadorn/Mt. Hope being developed into something called "The Hamptons", have you any further information on that project?
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The roundabouts would be installed at:
Coolidge and Lake Lansing
Both Lake Lansing & US-127 exits, and at
Lake Lansing and Preyde Blvd.
They claim that roundabouts don't work well unless there are more roundabouts nearby. This is on the agenda for tonights city council meeting and they are planning to spend 30 grand on more data. They don't expect the project to be finished until late 2009 or 2010.
Just think:
Stonehouse Village 1 has been built, finished, and occupied,
Stonehouse Village 2 development was stopped after the state wouldnt give funding to the developer (still means that there is a plan in sight)
Stonehouse Village 3 is under construction now, and will include a parking ramp (allowing higher densities in the area),
The new Broad Art Museum will be build right across Grand River (supposedly finished by 2010, if I remember right),
The parking lot behind Peanut Barrel, Campus Town Mall, and the old Taco Bell is being expanded (creating room for future growth).
The eastside of downtown East Lansing could become a nice little district in the next four years. It will be interesting to see how it transforms.
The redevelopment proposal must be "premier quality"
The project must be mixed-use with at least 20-25,000 sq ft of high quality first floor retail (including dining and entertainment), residential and/or commercial uses on upper floors, and sufficient parking to accommodate the project uses and replace the exisiting 148 spaces currently in Lot 1. Any residential components should include a majority (70% or greater) of units to be for sale owner-occupied units.
The RFP also mentions that they expect Museum Place to be under construction within the next 24 to 36 months, and that this project will have to coordinate with the heavy construction of the Museum Place development. There is no deadline for applications. This RFP is the result of the expiration of a previous Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a prior developer.
Lot 1 Request For Proposals
Please post up here what you think of the request. I thought it left a lot in the air, only really specifying ground floor retail, and not mentioning a minimum amount of square feet for the overall development. I also would like to see East Lansing look to incorporate office in some of the developments, but I understand that they are trying to create a vibrant community at night and many office buildings are completely shut down at night, negatively impacting the liveliness of the downtown area.