Welcome to the forum MSUFTW! I didn't know about that project before, thanks for sharing! Do you know the addresses of the apartment buildings / duplexes? If you find that, it's possible to look up some of the details on the Assessor's website. I wish it were possible to find work/construction permits online.
Thanks Jared - 326 E Hillsdale St. is the one apartment building currently being re-developed, and then the next door duplex to the west (322 E Hillsdale), and then I believe the apartment building across the street to the east.
I live over in REOtown and I often travel through Cherry Hill. It is great to see that someone is remodeling these buildings. It is a nice downtown neighborhood, I hope someone will also redevelop the big houses that are for sale up the street. They are architecturally significant historic Victorian era homes that represent the neighborhood that was destroyed by 496 just to the south and west. It could be kind of a happening area with enough reinvestment. The shelter? there is a challenge to some I am sure, but I have never seen anything going on, and most folks are setting around having a smoke. Is that the shelter that puts folks out for the day? I guess I'm not sure what the old Cherry Hill School is.
It looks like 563 Cherry Street is a drop in center for the Justice in Mental Health organization. I thought I saw the school name over the door, I will take a closer look. Parking lots, why so many? Is there ever a time when these lots are full today? There should be some sort of ordinance that requires re-greening a paved property if it is no longer used for surface parking.
I did not see the new widows yet, the whole complex looks much better. They painted the buildings next door a nice green. I think that may have been the first paint job there in 30 years. I wonder if they are going to paint or rehad the yellowish corrugated metal walls facing S Washington. I would think that there would be brick walls and closed up windows behind there.
Does anyone know anything about the Holmes Street School? To avoid lights and traffic I take a little back route down Hazel to S. Holmes street under 496 to Kalamazoo. Is doesn't save time but I like driving through neighborhoods. The school building there is a really nice building with beautiful stone work, similar to Eastern High School and the MSU Union. It seems to be totally abandoned,neglected and vandalized. It is the only former school building I have seen in this condition in Lansing. It really is one of the nicer elementary school buildings, and it is just setting there falling apart. I could see that building repossessed as housing or lots of things. I do not think the neighbors there are being respected when they have this to look at across the street.
I think it's safe to assume the Holmes Street School project is completely dead, nothing has happened there in two or three years. I remember the building sitting dormant for a long time when I was surprised to see them putting up steel for the new atrium. Work then abruptly stopped and it's been sitting that way ever since.
I found a City Pulse article from just before the steel work was done: Development Problems
I was by Grand River & MLK and noticed someone (I assume Peckam) is building a two floor building near the southwest corner. It's not a large building but it's being built fairly close to the street, it seemed prominent when driving north down Grand River. Anyone know anything about what's going on here?
Also, here's a couple things of note from this weeks council meeting:
Someone is asking to rezone 3600/3525 Dunckel and 4600 Collins to "E-1 Apartment shop district." This is the site of the old Clarion Hotel / failed condo and student housing developments. All it says is that they are proposing a "mixed use development on the subject property consisting of residential apartments, a
hotel and various retail and office uses." It has to be nearing 10 years since the hotel closed and maybe 5 or so years since work stopped on the apartments.
They're seeking OPRA tax credits for that old church mentioned earlier at 221 W Saginaw.
Thanks for the information about the Holmes Street School. Sad to hear that something was started but not completed. I wonder why they have just abandoned a very nice building. I am going to note the broken windows on seeclickfix.com There are some nicer homes and lots of trees back over there, but is is an area that is kind of isolated making it easy for vandals.
It would seem like the Dunkel Road area would be a great place for a hotel, I think however they should knock down the old building and start over and build a complex of different buildings for the different uses. Maybe that is the plan already.
Great news! The paving projects are really starting pick up. North on 127 there is new pavement between Alma and Mt Pleasant so new it is still shinny! They have been doing some real patching on W. Barnes Ave. and some on Kalamazoo as well.
There is some sort of renovation going on at the former bank? building next to the tracks on the north side of Grand River in Old Town. Does anyone know what might be going in there. It is a very nice building. There also renovation going on in one of the storefronts next to the bike shop down the block. They really have put together and interesting group of shops and businesses there, now the city could repave the streets and it would look even better.
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Does anyone know anything about the Holmes Street School? To avoid lights and traffic I take a little back route down Hazel to S. Holmes street under 496 to Kalamazoo. Is doesn't save time but I like driving through neighborhoods. The school building there is a really nice building with beautiful stone work, similar to Eastern High School and the MSU Union. It seems to be totally abandoned,neglected and vandalized. It is the only former school building I have seen in this condition in Lansing. It really is one of the nicer elementary school buildings, and it is just setting there falling apart. I could see that building repossessed as housing or lots of things. I do not think the neighbors there are being respected when they have this to look at across the street.
I found a City Pulse article from just before the steel work was done: Development Problems
Also, here's a couple things of note from this weeks council meeting:
Someone is asking to rezone 3600/3525 Dunckel and 4600 Collins to "E-1 Apartment shop district." This is the site of the old Clarion Hotel / failed condo and student housing developments. All it says is that they are proposing a "mixed use development on the subject property consisting of residential apartments, a
hotel and various retail and office uses." It has to be nearing 10 years since the hotel closed and maybe 5 or so years since work stopped on the apartments.
They're seeking OPRA tax credits for that old church mentioned earlier at 221 W Saginaw.
It would seem like the Dunkel Road area would be a great place for a hotel, I think however they should knock down the old building and start over and build a complex of different buildings for the different uses. Maybe that is the plan already.