The news about "The Wing" is very interesting. These guys are for real it would seem. I think the location will be challenging and I think that that is what the developers are looking for [as in people will want to live Here?!} and the fact this involved with Tesla gets extra !!!!!
Looks like fun It's cool the kept the bank vault and the mid-century modern feel. I think that The Bank of Lansing built that building, many of their branch buildings were nicely designed.
I've already been to Arcadia a few times. The food is legit and I love that they're brewing on site. That east side neighborhood is coming together well. It's really getting attractive to prospective residents.
Construction has started on the new River Trail bridge for the section of the trail between the bridge on the south side of Potter Park and the T-intersection just west of Aurelius near Kruger's Lansing. The trail has been ripped out and the parking lot for Kruger's Landing has been closed in order for construction equipment and materials to be stored in there. I rode through and you can see some old bridge sections that have been removed as well as sections that look like new bridges to be installed. I'm glad to see this work finally happening. This section of trail is impassable for most of the early spring because of the annual floods in the area.
In my understanding they will be replacing at least 1 bridge (it was torn out and sitting in the parking lot) and converting part of the trail into a bridge (the asphalt was completely excavated down to dirt) as well. It also looked like they had removed the planks on the bridge over the Red Cedar as well. I don't know if that bridge is coming out as well or just being rehabbed.
Yes the area east of Aurelius floods pretty frequently as well, but there was a low spot i this western section where the water flows into the wetlands south of the trail pretty frequently. It'll be nice to have this area fixed.
That photo is looking west to the bridge over the red cedar that crosses next to the zoo. From what I was told is that this bridge will have an elevated section farther east toward Aurelius to reduce water over that small section.
Over here on the REOtown section of the trail, they have begun rebuilding the collapsed bank near GM and the trail is closed there. They have also replaced many cedar planks on all the bridges in this area. I am wondering if they are rebuilding really bad areas and will be repaving the whole trail or just fixing the bad spots and leaving the rest as is? They [who ever they are] are doing a good job of keeping ahead of the graffiti, some yahoo who thinks he is an artist had tagged all the underpasses earlier in the summer with bad "art" which is now mostly covered up. The real art under Beech Street bridge somehow was not vandalized, that was "nice" of him.
I have answered my own question, I saw workers repaving the entire River Trail near the Elm Street bridge yesterday. I know it is terribly nerdy but seeing this made me so happy! Sometimes it is discouraging to wait so long to see these projects start, to me it is exciting to see them underway.
I voted for Welcoming Hands, I think it is interesting to look at and would not block the view of the Capitol. There is a depiction in a light blue as well as red so maybe it can change colors or we can choose any color. I think we have a giant head on Michigan Ave why not giant hands? It relates to Lansing our welcoming hands that also make things. I also like the Flame, the other two are too obvious and not very interesting. We once had a chance to have a sculpture by Clase Oldenburg in this area when the 70's mall was built on North Washington. His concept was a giant catcher's mitt with a big red baseball in the center. This idea was rejected I think because Lansing's concept of modern art then was that it should be non-representational and they decided on a much smaller sleek and shiny sculpture, it is a nice sculpture but it was lost in its surroundings sitting high up on a black marble pedestal. It was supposed to turn slowly but that only worked for about one year. That sculpture is now at LCC. So I guess my point is! that this should be large enough to fill this space, and we should have picked the Oldenburg!
I think 7,000 sq.ft. of retail on Townsend Street sounds challenging. What do they think will go in there? I would guess that they see there will soon be even more people living in that neighborhood so perhaps there will be shops to serve the neighborhood.
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The news about "The Wing" is very interesting. These guys are for real it would seem. I think the location will be challenging and I think that that is what the developers are looking for [as in people will want to live Here?!} and the fact this involved with Tesla gets extra !!!!!
Looks like fun It's cool the kept the bank vault and the mid-century modern feel. I think that The Bank of Lansing built that building, many of their branch buildings were nicely designed.
I've already been to Arcadia a few times. The food is legit and I love that they're brewing on site. That east side neighborhood is coming together well. It's really getting attractive to prospective residents.
Construction has started on the new River Trail bridge for the section of the trail between the bridge on the south side of Potter Park and the T-intersection just west of Aurelius near Kruger's Lansing. The trail has been ripped out and the parking lot for Kruger's Landing has been closed in order for construction equipment and materials to be stored in there. I rode through and you can see some old bridge sections that have been removed as well as sections that look like new bridges to be installed. I'm glad to see this work finally happening. This section of trail is impassable for most of the early spring because of the annual floods in the area.
In my understanding they will be replacing at least 1 bridge (it was torn out and sitting in the parking lot) and converting part of the trail into a bridge (the asphalt was completely excavated down to dirt) as well. It also looked like they had removed the planks on the bridge over the Red Cedar as well. I don't know if that bridge is coming out as well or just being rehabbed.
Yes the area east of Aurelius floods pretty frequently as well, but there was a low spot i this western section where the water flows into the wetlands south of the trail pretty frequently. It'll be nice to have this area fixed.
That photo is looking west to the bridge over the red cedar that crosses next to the zoo. From what I was told is that this bridge will have an elevated section farther east toward Aurelius to reduce water over that small section.
Over here on the REOtown section of the trail, they have begun rebuilding the collapsed bank near GM and the trail is closed there. They have also replaced many cedar planks on all the bridges in this area. I am wondering if they are rebuilding really bad areas and will be repaving the whole trail or just fixing the bad spots and leaving the rest as is? They [who ever they are] are doing a good job of keeping ahead of the graffiti, some yahoo who thinks he is an artist had tagged all the underpasses earlier in the summer with bad "art" which is now mostly covered up. The real art under Beech Street bridge somehow was not vandalized, that was "nice" of him.
Yes that photo was looking west from the T-junction on the trail.
I have answered my own question, I saw workers repaving the entire River Trail near the Elm Street bridge yesterday. I know it is terribly nerdy but seeing this made me so happy! Sometimes it is discouraging to wait so long to see these projects start, to me it is exciting to see them underway.
I voted for Welcoming Hands, I think it is interesting to look at and would not block the view of the Capitol. There is a depiction in a light blue as well as red so maybe it can change colors or we can choose any color. I think we have a giant head on Michigan Ave why not giant hands? It relates to Lansing our welcoming hands that also make things. I also like the Flame, the other two are too obvious and not very interesting. We once had a chance to have a sculpture by Clase Oldenburg in this area when the 70's mall was built on North Washington. His concept was a giant catcher's mitt with a big red baseball in the center. This idea was rejected I think because Lansing's concept of modern art then was that it should be non-representational and they decided on a much smaller sleek and shiny sculpture, it is a nice sculpture but it was lost in its surroundings sitting high up on a black marble pedestal. It was supposed to turn slowly but that only worked for about one year. That sculpture is now at LCC. So I guess my point is! that this should be large enough to fill this space, and we should have picked the Oldenburg!
I think 7,000 sq.ft. of retail on Townsend Street sounds challenging. What do they think will go in there? I would guess that they see there will soon be even more people living in that neighborhood so perhaps there will be shops to serve the neighborhood.