Lansing Area Photos and Construction Updates

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  • edited May 20
    Thanks for those updates!

    I took these photos years and years ago, now, at Tower on Grand. It just feels so weird to finally see construction after so many false starts. Still miss the old City Club building, though. At the time, it was the one of the oldest remaining buildings in town, and they tore it down for a few extra parking spaces. :'(

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    Building next door was old, too, but had long since been stripped of its exterior beyond recognition.

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    But, better days ahead, finally.
  • 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.

    As you say, better days.
  • 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.

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  • 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.
  • edited May 26
    I grabbed pics of a lot of the construction going on around downtown and out at MSU...

    Grand Vista Place : The first elevator shaft is topped out
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    City Hall: The old parking lot has been tore up and footings are being drilled & poured
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    Riverview 220: The first elevator shaft is rising
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    Tower on Grand: There's a large drilling rig onsite, I think they've already been digging/pouring. Lots of rebar and caisson forms lying around
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    Walter Neller Building soon to be demolished:
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    Fish Ladder Music Park construction is in full swing, it'll be difficult to get good pictures of the progress:
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    Speaking of difficult to get pictures, the Student Wellness Center at MSU continues to be hard to capture:
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    MSU's new Outdoor Tennis Courts appear to be a bigger to do than I imagined. The new Digital Innovation Center should be getting underway next door as soon as Trustees authorize to proceed:
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    Plant and Environmental Science building is above ground:
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    The completed Multicultural Center and Farm Lane Bridge:
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  • Great Pics! thank you. I believe that the new landscaping by the Farm Lane Bridge was just put in last week, it looks great! It looks like the "Greater Lansing's great graffiti artist" waited until school was out to tag the walls under this bridge. If you take note of the poor style and subject of these tags, I'd say that it is the same person who tags walls and buildings all over Lansing. I hope that criminal gets busted one day and has to pay for cleaning up all the messes they made.
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