New Vision Lansing

hoodhood
edited September 2024 in Lansing
Making a new thread for this project...

Tower on the Grand, a 25 floor 292 unit apartment building plus a five floor 315 space parking garage attached via an elevated deck. Slated to break ground in Q3 2024:
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Capitol Tower, a 6 floor building with 80 apartments, 36k sq ft of office space and 102 underground parking spaces to break ground in Q4 2024. An additional 7 three floor townhomes (not shown) along Ottawa will be constructed later:
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Washington Square Apartments, an existing 10 floor office building converted into 60 apartments along with the demolition of a modern two floor office building nearby to build a 4 floor 100 space parking ramp with ground floor retail. Work expected to begin Q2 2024:
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Comments

  • hoodhood
    Nah, it look like the elevation marks are cut off on the right of that floor profile view. 25 floors with a 30' first floor should make for the tallest building in the city by a good margin.
  • hoodhood
    edited February 2024
    City Pulse has an article on this project. They're somewhat critical of what they say is a change in workforce housing from all 450 units to 150 units. I don't remember them saying in any of the articles that all of the housing would be workforce, I thought they said initially that it would be mixed income housing? Regardless, there's not much new insight in the article but it is probably still worth the read.

    https://www.lansingcitypulse.com/stories/new-vision-lansing-downtown-development-plan-advances-to-city-council-gentilozzi-workforce-housing,87872
  • hoodhood
    I don't see any watermarks on any of the renderings or mention of the architects or companies involved. From the look of the buildings I wouldn't be at all surprised if they are from different architects, they're very different designs. I still wish they'd drop the idea of covering Grand Ave up, the tower looks like a beautiful building, it'd be shame to make it so hard to see from close up.


    I watched the committee of the whole meeting on YouTube and Gentilozzi mentioned that the riverfront walk on the back side of Tower on the Grand will be cantilevered out over the river to be wider with city approval. They will also build a pedestrian bridge over the river at their expense.

    On a side note, I haven't watched Council in a very long time. How is Adam Hussein on City Council? He was combative and borderline unprofessional. Anyone watched with any frequency? Is that a typical trait or unique to what I saw today?
  • hoodhood
    What I had a problem with today didn't seem related to his political leanings but absolutely gives credence to your theory on intelligence. Check it out beginning about 1:55:00

  • hoodhood
    I definitely like the golden colored facade better, but even if it ends up like this Lansing could sorta use a glass tower in the skyline. That being said I don't know what to make of it, the TV spot showed the previous rendering as does Gentilozzi's own site. On his own site he shows a different, uglier, Capitol Tower rendering that hasn't been used anywhere else. Go figure.

    My understanding from his comments that he's just waiting on brownfield approvals now? I didn't miss or forget any such thing going through council in past months?

    https://www.gentilozzi.com/new-vision

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  • gbdinlansinggbdinlansing
    I don't "hate" this depiction, it looks like the apartments will have balconies which will make the building look like an apartment building not an office tower. However, is looks more generic than the last drawings, I would like to see a design that says "this is Lansing's skyline" when you see it. Many cities have unremarkable skylines that could be mistaken for any other. I would like to see a distinctive building to go along with the Boji Tower and the Capitol Building. I do like the smaller building; it has a more unique look and does not look like so many of the other new developments.
  • hoodhood
    Yeah, the addition of balconies is welcome. Either way we're not getting an architectural masterpiece, especially if the over-street parking garage holds. I couldn't agree more on wanting a unique skyline moving forward as well. I'm just crossing my fingers hoping this building doesn't get scaled down and is a harbinger of what's to come, if they can build a nearly 2000' building in Oklahoma City it doesn't seem unreasonable to get some 30-40 floor buildings here.
  • hoodhood
    I still find it hard to believe that Gentilozzi would leave all the free money on the table and I'd be surprised if that money couldn't make financing the project relatively easy. It'd be nice to know what's going on, but there's a lot of projects hanging out in the ether that there's no updates on. Perhaps the city will get that project update page up and running at some point.

    As of now it could be argued that they're only four months behind the schedule that they were pitching before the money was even approved. I think these projects will happen but I do worry what their final form will be.
  • hoodhood
    edited October 2024
    This is very, very welcome news. The nighttime rendering of Tower on Grand is great, the new building in Old Town and the Ingham Building's renovation into apartments are unexpected and significant positives. I did not expect to see stuff added to this group of proposals.

    There's so much there to digest, one little bit of info I read was that the new parking garage on Washington may include a podium for "future expansion", that's a promising statement. I find it interesting that they insist on including office space at the Capitol Tower, I'd imagine having office space on the top floor would lock them into a more expensive structural steel or concrete reinforced structure, maybe they can do cold formed steel for the apartments while still putting office up top?

    Regardless, this is all great to see. I won't rest easy until concrete is poured for Tower on Grand.
  • gbdinlansinggbdinlansing
    I am a bit confused! Are you talking about 116 W Ottawa? Also is the building depicted at Walnut and Ottawa still an apartment building? The new drawings are quite a relief, the nighttime lighting will add a unique building to our skyline. OK let get on with it!
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