I like this building, I would say it looks like a "Lansing Area Building". The design reminds me of the converted power plant downtown, or some of the buildings at MSU. That is interesting that they need even more room, they already have that huge building up there.
The City of East Lansing is going to extend the Northern Tier trail. One of the paths currently ends at a parking lot in the Whitehills neighborhood. That path will now extend to the corner of Lake Lansing and Birch Row. Another extension will bring the path that ends at Tower Ave (behind the Aquatic Center and softball fields) down Towar Ave to connect it with the sidewalk. The third addition made will be connecting the sidewalk on Lake Lansing Road between Birch Row and Abbot that has a missing gap in it. More than half of these additions ($520,000) will be funded through the Trails Millage and the rest ($300,000) will be funded through the Michigan DNR Natural Resources Trust Fund.
Big story in the LSJ about the Grand River Ave development. I like the drawings, there may be a bright shiny group of buildings to welcome people to downtown East Lansing for real this time!
There is a purchase agreement for the office portion of the Marriott building in East Lansing for $3.25 million. I haven't heard anything more about who the purchaser is or what they plan on doing with the office portion once the sale goes through.
Conrad's at the corner of Abbot and Grand River will be closing. A note was posted on their front door. From the looks of it their landlord didn't want to renew their lease. They said they will be looking for another location in downtown. They currently have two other locations.
Maybe it was the landlord's fault but I always found Conrad's store front very dirty and unappealing. I think that block is going to be much in demand with developments across the street.
The old Rally House location will be having a new pizza place opening up there tomorrow.
I was surprised by the closing of Conrads. The store there was doing really good business. I was thinking that maybe the owner was planning on getting a bigger tenant in there to take over multiple store fronts or potentially redeveloping the whole building but the opening of the new pizza place kinda goes against that.
There's still development opportunities on Lot 1, and a grocery store/retail store with underground parking would be perfect for the size of downtown and increasing the quality of living for residents downtown.
They really are a good resource, I never check their site on my own but every time I'm reminded it exists I wander over there and find out something new. I wish there were an equivalent publication for Lansing.
Seems like a very good spot for a decent hotel, and it will be an improvement over the old Ho Jo's[when did they do the re-hab on the old place, it is so terrible], it would be nice it the did something more interesting there. Trowbridge should be a nice gateway to Greater E.L. and Lansing.
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Conrad's at the corner of Abbot and Grand River will be closing. A note was posted on their front door. From the looks of it their landlord didn't want to renew their lease. They said they will be looking for another location in downtown. They currently have two other locations.
Maybe it was the landlord's fault but I always found Conrad's store front very dirty and unappealing. I think that block is going to be much in demand with developments across the street.
The old Rally House location will be having a new pizza place opening up there tomorrow.
I was surprised by the closing of Conrads. The store there was doing really good business. I was thinking that maybe the owner was planning on getting a bigger tenant in there to take over multiple store fronts or potentially redeveloping the whole building but the opening of the new pizza place kinda goes against that.
There's still development opportunities on Lot 1, and a grocery store/retail store with underground parking would be perfect for the size of downtown and increasing the quality of living for residents downtown.
EastLansingInfo, who I've linked to in the past, is fundraising to continue their independent journalism (of which I must note is top notch quality).
I just donated to them and I am asking that readers of this site donate there too: http://eastlansinginfo.org/donate
Tomorrow is their deadline to raise enough funds to stay operating.
They really are a good resource, I never check their site on my own but every time I'm reminded it exists I wander over there and find out something new. I wish there were an equivalent publication for Lansing.
Seems like a very good spot for a decent hotel, and it will be an improvement over the old Ho Jo's[when did they do the re-hab on the old place, it is so terrible], it would be nice it the did something more interesting there. Trowbridge should be a nice gateway to Greater E.L. and Lansing.