I've heard of TechSmith before, do you know about how many employees they have?
About Spartan Internet, has anyone heard what's going on with their Holmes St School headquarters? I thought the project was dead awhile ago, but a little over a year ago they started putting up steel on the back of the building then work stopped again and nothing seems to have happened since.
I feel I've noticed the same thing about downtown -- the loss of some retail shops and gain of bars/restaurants. I miss Michigania also. I wonder if some of the retail that has left downtown has moved to Old Town. (In other words, is the general growth/revitalization of Old Town inhibiting the growth of downtown shops? Not sure that REO Town is having an effect yet -- I think it's too soon for REO.) Don't get me wrong, I'm happy about the growth and renewal of Old Town. Just a thought.
Poached business, no, but Old Town has benefited from more locally owned businesses. Downtown really needs at minimum a medium-sized grocery store. It would be such a boon if downtown Lansing could convince Goodrich to open there. Besides that, I think many of the retail will follow as more units open up and more people live downtown.
This sounds great, I guess this sounds like a high end deli maybe with table service as well as counter to go. My first thought was "another sandwich shop?' But hey if that is what we need I hope it's a nice one. The city also needs to replant all the missing trees on Washtenaw and Kalamazoo. That would make the area around Knapp's have bit less overlooked feeling.
They need to finish the south Washington streetscaping, it was supposed to be done now. I don't understand why stopping the CSO project meant stopping the streetscaping project.
What is the CSO project?
I checked out the web-site for the new deli and it looks pretty nice. It looks like they may have table service, which I hope they do so that maybe it will be a step above just another sandwich shop.
I do not know what they planned to landscape, but a nice tall hedge row would be nice for the surface lot next to Knapp's. I wonder what happened to the store front buildings that were there? That brake makes it feel like that is the end of downtown.
Some more shade trees and benches down that block and the next would really help. The folks who are standing in front of the party store would have a place to sit and perhaps make it seem a bit less scary to not have to walk through a crowd of people standing in front of a liquor store. They don't scare me but it could be scary for others.
@gbinlansing CSO stands for Combined Sewer Overflow, there's a detailed overview of what it was here: The CSO Story. If I remember right it was halted because federal mandates were changed so they needed a new program to meet the new mandate (I think it's called the SSO).
I wasn't around to see the buildings next to Knapps myself, but apparently they were the same early 1900's 2 floor buildings found elsewhere on Washington. It's my understanding that they were tore down for Cooley's parking lot with no greater intentions (I think this was in the early to mid 90's).
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About Spartan Internet, has anyone heard what's going on with their Holmes St School headquarters? I thought the project was dead awhile ago, but a little over a year ago they started putting up steel on the back of the building then work stopped again and nothing seems to have happened since.
There's also an article on the fashion incubator "The Runway": The Runway, a Lansing-area 'incubator' network, prepares to open in Knapp's Centre
I checked out the web-site for the new deli and it looks pretty nice. It looks like they may have table service, which I hope they do so that maybe it will be a step above just another sandwich shop.
I do not know what they planned to landscape, but a nice tall hedge row would be nice for the surface lot next to Knapp's. I wonder what happened to the store front buildings that were there? That brake makes it feel like that is the end of downtown.
Some more shade trees and benches down that block and the next would really help. The folks who are standing in front of the party store would have a place to sit and perhaps make it seem a bit less scary to not have to walk through a crowd of people standing in front of a liquor store. They don't scare me but it could be scary for others.
I wasn't around to see the buildings next to Knapps myself, but apparently they were the same early 1900's 2 floor buildings found elsewhere on Washington. It's my understanding that they were tore down for Cooley's parking lot with no greater intentions (I think this was in the early to mid 90's).