Has anyone heard anymore about what is happening with this property? I am soon going to be moving back to the general area and am really interested in what is happening to the property.
As far as I know the project is still moving forward, albeit slowly. They just rehabbed one of the buildings on the property into a Neighborhood Empowerment Center and an old house on the site into commercial space. I still haven't seen any site plans renderings or anything about the further plans for the site though.
This will be good to have on the edge of Old Town and downtown. Lots of people living walking distance of both centers is going to be great for business and for the people who live at this urban campus. I thought this was all underway with the Mayor giving a speech in front of one of the buildings about a year ago. I hope this is the real start of the development.
My Lansing note, our neighbor girl who was partially deaf and blind, had classes there with Stevie Wonder right when he had his first song out on the radio. All the kids at that school were very excited about it. He was from Saginaw, and lived in a dorm as did all the children who did not live in Lansing.
I hope they are able to save most of trees there.
Virtually all the small buildings on the site were demolished a few years ago (check out Google Maps to see what's left, imagery is up to date for this area). The Mid Michigan Leadership Academy has the building directly south of the administration building and may have the small gym-looking building just to the west of them also.
I'm just happy to see some real plans for this property, the western portion of the site will be another project for another day.
Looks good like it belongs in Lansing. It seems like they should wait until they have all the funding and tax breaks in place before they announce the development plans. Maybe that is part of the PR campaign that has to take place in order to get the tax incentives. I hope it all just rolls along like the Skyview project on Michigan Ave. The LSJ was using "if's" today when talking about this project.
I checked out TWG's website -- http://twgdev.com/properties/ -- very impressed with their work! (kind of made me want to swing through Indianapolis sometime). Lots of senior housing, many in rehabbed pre-war buildings. Their new construction buildings looked good too - with an urban sensibility.
I'm pretty excited about this project. Hopefully they can pull it off, it does seem to be the right team and time.
@MJ I'm always glad to see an out of town developer come into the area, especially when they're taking on what I imagine is a challenging project. Hopefully they'll find some other properties here that interest them.
@gbinlansing I'd be almost shocked if this project moves along like Skyview has. They didn't give dates in any of the articles which doesn't give a great deal of hope, but I do still think that this is a serious proposal and it could move quicker than I expect.
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My Lansing note, our neighbor girl who was partially deaf and blind, had classes there with Stevie Wonder right when he had his first song out on the radio. All the kids at that school were very excited about it. He was from Saginaw, and lived in a dorm as did all the children who did not live in Lansing.
I hope they are able to save most of trees there.
I'm just happy to see some real plans for this property, the western portion of the site will be another project for another day.
I'm pretty excited about this project. Hopefully they can pull it off, it does seem to be the right team and time.
@gbinlansing I'd be almost shocked if this project moves along like Skyview has. They didn't give dates in any of the articles which doesn't give a great deal of hope, but I do still think that this is a serious proposal and it could move quicker than I expect.