Mich - I don't know offhand, but I do know that they have put up a sign where they set up an office across the street - I'll make a note who they are the next time I drive by.
gbd - I agree!!! As a former resident of many college towns, I've thought about this often... I think the ideal sites for the university campus in Lansing would have been...
The river bank above the GR GM plant, where all of the industrialist mansions were built around the turn of the century. This would have been a fantastically scenic spot, as the campus would have been directly connected to the capitol, and could have expanded down to the confluence of the Grand and Red Cedar.
The Baker/Donora -> Sunnyside Ave stretch of the Red Cedar river. This area has nice rolling hills and a gentle slope down to the river, which could have been dammed up near the confluence of the RC and Sycamore creek to fill in the marshy areas and create a large water feature.
Mt Hope cemetary hill. Again, a great elevated spot with interesting topology and nearby water feature.
And for a more integrative city/college format
Campus could have been centralized on the Beal Street hill, overlooking old college field, which could have been dug out and turned into a small lake, with the campus buildings built up into the hills north of campus through Chesterfield Hills and Glencairn. This could/would have provided 3 sides of campus for the town to develop along away from the river, instead of having campus scrunched between Grand River Ave and the Red Cedar...
There are a lot of what if's. I think that the college could have grown out of the Sparrow Nurses School and created a "college town" along East Michigan and back into the Eastern High/Boys Reform school area. The farms for the college might have been on the north side of that area.
In East Lansing, the farms might have located further to the south, to allow the community to surround the main campus on the south and west sides, and maybe the campus could have crossed Grand River between Hagadorn and Bouge and the town grow out in all directions from there.
Progress has been moving fairly quickly on this building. The site is fully excavated, some of the footings look complete, a tower crane was put up last week and it looks like there's a base for a second tower crane that I'd expect to be put up anytime. If the Park District gets underway this year there could be 4-5 large tower cranes along that less than 1 mile stretch of Grand River. That would be kinda impressive to see.
I'm not sure if they've poured any of the concrete but I think they've at least drilled all/most of the pilings, they've had the drilling rig taken down for at least a week or two now.
I took this picture yesterday while we were driving down Grand River. It's pretty cool to see the tower cranes from so far away, and right now there is really nothing standing next to them so the height is even more pronounced!
Mich - Right on. Just imagine how different it will look if/when the "Park district" project is completed, and their is more density built up back from Albert towards the North, as per EL's long term plan!
I didn't expect the east side of the building to have those angled wedges. I wonder why they did this as I would assume it costs more and definitely reduces square footage.
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Mich - I don't know offhand, but I do know that they have put up a sign where they set up an office across the street - I'll make a note who they are the next time I drive by.
gbd - I agree!!! As a former resident of many college towns, I've thought about this often... I think the ideal sites for the university campus in Lansing would have been...
And for a more integrative city/college format
What are your thoughts???
There are a lot of what if's. I think that the college could have grown out of the Sparrow Nurses School and created a "college town" along East Michigan and back into the Eastern High/Boys Reform school area. The farms for the college might have been on the north side of that area.
In East Lansing, the farms might have located further to the south, to allow the community to surround the main campus on the south and west sides, and maybe the campus could have crossed Grand River between Hagadorn and Bouge and the town grow out in all directions from there.
Progress has been moving fairly quickly on this building. The site is fully excavated, some of the footings look complete, a tower crane was put up last week and it looks like there's a base for a second tower crane that I'd expect to be put up anytime. If the Park District gets underway this year there could be 4-5 large tower cranes along that less than 1 mile stretch of Grand River. That would be kinda impressive to see.
I just drove by this AM. Didn't look like piles had been put in yet.
I took this picture yesterday while we were driving down Grand River. It's pretty cool to see the tower cranes from so far away, and right now there is really nothing standing next to them so the height is even more pronounced!
Mich - Right on. Just imagine how different it will look if/when the "Park district" project is completed, and their is more density built up back from Albert towards the North, as per EL's long term plan!
The rooftop amenities are dope. I hope this catches on.
Yeah, that's a great looking roof. I am very excited to learn whatever game that court is for.