Grabbed a few pics of construction on the east side of town:
A section of newly paved Michigan Ave:
The fountains in Michigan Ave median are finally working! In fact all the water features throughout the Red Cedar development and Ranney Park are up and running, with that the drain project finally feels complete
Neogen's exterior seems largely complete:
Multicultural Center progress:
The new Student Wellness Building is hard to photograph in its entirety with so many trees around, it's quite a sprawling building:
I was out on the trail today and wanted to snap a couple pictures of probably my favorite trailside scenery in the area, the Sycamore Park wetland area, while flowers were blooming as it looked quite nice despite the gloomy weather when I noticed a bald eagle in the dead tree. Just thought it was worth sharing:
That was a cool little building. In a different universe I could see the original portion still there, sandwiched between two skyscrapers. That being said, I can't say that I'd be arguing too much against its demolition even today if it still existed. It is a little sad that we had to see old buildings razed for new development on a street with virtually all surfacing parking with a bonus aging riverfront parking garage.
I snapped a picture of the beginnings of work on the fish ladder amphitheater early last week (below). I'll be around getting pictures of all the major goings-ons again at some point this week: both the LHC apartments have nearly completed elevator cores, work appears back underway at Ovation, a small crane is up at Tower on Grand, more work at the fish ladder, West Hillsdale apartments, MSU projects... It's good to have a list like that.
It is almost unbelievable to see all of these projects are actually happening, the fish ladder had become an eyesore imo, the plan looks great. It looks like this was always going to be an amphitheater but was never finished. It is cool that I have lived long enough to see this area go from industrial waste land to this great outdoor community green space and diverse active neighborhood.
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A section of newly paved Michigan Ave:
The fountains in Michigan Ave median are finally working! In fact all the water features throughout the Red Cedar development and Ranney Park are up and running, with that the drain project finally feels complete
Neogen's exterior seems largely complete:
Multicultural Center progress:
The new Student Wellness Building is hard to photograph in its entirety with so many trees around, it's quite a sprawling building:
Tower on Grand: (demo of three floor building done, on Monday the area behind the Atrium Building was cordoned off and the old Hacks Key shop razed)
Riverview 220: (foundation work moving along)
Grand Vista Place: (foundation work moving along)
City Hall: (barriers up, no activity)
Ovation: (the street curb was taken out when they delivered equipment a week or two ago but no work since)
As you say, better days.