Yes, a grocery store would be huge for downtown Lansing. With Fresh Thyme opening in East Lansing (Trowbridge Rd) this week, I was thinking that something of that size (~30,000 feet2) would be more likely in the near term.
As for Costco and Ikea, I'd love to see them in the area but I'd be disappointed to see them on the far west side. The site of the old Waverly Golf Course might not be bad though.
Regarding the announcement about the GM sites, a 2 million square foot manufacturing facility is massive, almost the size of the Delta Plant. I can't imagine what this could be besides a full scale auto plant, the question is really whether this is GM related.
I wouldn't suspect it'd GM either, but this could be part of their $4.5 billion of investments they'll announce later in the year. I'd personally hope for a foreign automaker to diversify a little bit.
Wow, huge project! Yeah, we should probably start new threads more often. I resized the picture in your post so that it fits on my screen (and probably others better ).
BRT? Man I'm still trying to get a crosswalk put on Michigan Avenue somewhere between Harrison and Clippert! That development would be huge (quite literally). Wonder if I would be able to see it from my house...
No, I am aware of the BRT. The pessimistic side of me is still hoping it happens - actually I see now that they updated the blog without much funfare a month ago.
Oh dear. The optimistic side of me would KNOW it is going to happen because by golly that's the plan and look at all this work they've already done, of course it will happen. The pessimistic side merely hopes.
Jared moved this project to its own thread btw, and on a side note I agree that we should be making more individual threads to make it easier to sort through discussions.
To reply to MichMatters though, I do agree that this is grossly out of proportion with the area, but it won't be for long. I've said for awhile that I believe the Frandor area will become its own downtown, it looks to me like it may even rival East Lansing's downtown at some point. The Red Cedar development is already known to have at least one relatively tall building in the Hilton, and in the City's imaginative renderings of the area they showed 12 or 14 floor buildings where Sears and Staples are. The City plans serious growth here. I would love to see this in downtown Lansing as much as any of us, but this is student housing and MSU students haven't shown any interest in living in downtown Lansing as far as I know. But I guess that's one thing BRT could change also, and light rail, as wasteful as it is, could change more.
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Regarding the announcement about the GM sites, a 2 million square foot manufacturing facility is massive, almost the size of the Delta Plant. I can't imagine what this could be besides a full scale auto plant, the question is really whether this is GM related.
Michigan Avenue corridor gets major addition
It will be nine floors, 667k sq ft and have 359 apartments along with commercial space. It says it will break ground this fall.
Should this get its own thread?
To reply to MichMatters though, I do agree that this is grossly out of proportion with the area, but it won't be for long. I've said for awhile that I believe the Frandor area will become its own downtown, it looks to me like it may even rival East Lansing's downtown at some point. The Red Cedar development is already known to have at least one relatively tall building in the Hilton, and in the City's imaginative renderings of the area they showed 12 or 14 floor buildings where Sears and Staples are. The City plans serious growth here. I would love to see this in downtown Lansing as much as any of us, but this is student housing and MSU students haven't shown any interest in living in downtown Lansing as far as I know. But I guess that's one thing BRT could change also, and light rail, as wasteful as it is, could change more.