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General Lansing Development

hood — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:45:05 +0000

This is a thread for general Lansing development, the smaller projects and general discussion.

Lansing Area News & Discussion

hood — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:38:25 +0000

This thread is for Metro Lansing news (and discussion) not directly related to development. Post news on new businesses, local government matters, events and other local things here.

Southside Development

hood — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:12:08 +0000

Restarting the old Southside Development thread

There's a pretty interesting new development in the April 7th Planning Commission packet: https://lansingmi.portal.civicclerk.com/event/8224/files/agenda/14909

From the agenda:

BACKGROUND:
Lovejoy Community Services, with the consent and support of the property owner, Pentecostal
Church of God in Christ, is proposing the split of the subject property to facilitate a planned unit
development that would result in 6 detached single-family homes, 18 attached single-family
rowhouse units, 40 attached multi-family rowhouse units, a 14-unit apartment building, a multi-
use community building, and accessory urban agricultural farm spaces and buildings.

These aren't some fantastically high-quality buildings nor is the development trying to be some new-urbanist mecca, but I really like this project. Especially for its location. My biggest question is does it actually get built like these renderings because if so it'd be a quite cool little place. It's really worth checking out the rather extensive document included in the planning document, lots of renderings, elevations and more information.

Site Plan

Aerial

Apartment building

Townhouses

Barn

The Ovation Lansing

hood — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 01:30:18 +0000

I figured it's better to move this discussion to it's own thread.

The city announced the new performing arts center today, it will seat 1,530 and be located along Washington on the Lake Trust block. Construction is expected to costs about $21 million including apartments on the upper floors. No timeline is given for start or completion and there's talk of pursuing other grants and tax incentives along with securing financing for the apartment portion so this may still be a little ways off from getting started.

The design is somewhat interesting at least, but as with any interesting design it really will require good quality materials and construction methods to not look goofy. If our long awaited public performing arts center is built to same standards as all the cheap apartments around here I think I'm going to throw a fit. I'm obviously happy to see a performing arts center become reality but I can't say I'm impressed with what is proposed, I don't see why everything here has to be just barely good enough to be passable. I guess this is yet another project where it's a wait and see game to learn how it actually turns out, I don't want to be prematurely pessimistic.

https://www.lansingcitypulse.com/stories/lansing-to-build-performing-arts-center-on-washington-avenue,19770?fbclid=IwAR0RwWxXDZOJnoUX9_T7xRGWjLxd-DnY67XxjHrONwbL-b0_CWAg_93bnSM

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2022/02/01/lansing-unveils-plans-2-025-person-music-and-arts-venue-ovation/9291593002/

Sparrow Projects

hood — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:39:34 +0000

A forum for discussion and constriction updates on Sparrow Hospital.

Official Sparrow website for their construction updates: Building Sparrow

Capital Region International Airport

gary — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:45:55 +0000

The federal transportation funding bill for the upcoming fiscal year includes $5 million for an extension of one of the Capital City Airport's runways, enabling longer-distance flights to service Lansing.

The runway will be extended from the current 8,001 ft. to 8,500 ft.

Note: There's a misprint in the LSJ article... the runway's being extended **to** 8,500 ft, not **by** 8,500 ft. (Which is why you see the world record comments below the article)

http://lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070912/NEWS01/709120394
http://stabenow.senate.gov/press/2007/091207HUD.htm

New Vision Lansing

hood — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 22:19:40 +0000

Making a new thread for this project...

Tower on the Grand, a 25 floor 292 unit apartment building plus a five floor 315 space parking garage attached via an elevated deck. Slated to break ground in Q3 2024:

Capitol Tower, a 6 floor building with 80 apartments, 36k sq ft of office space and 102 underground parking spaces to break ground in Q4 2024. An additional 7 three floor townhomes (not shown) along Ottawa will be constructed later:

Washington Square Apartments, an existing 10 floor office building converted into 60 apartments along with the demolition of a modern two floor office building nearby to build a 4 floor 100 space parking ramp with ground floor retail. Work expected to begin Q2 2024:

Homeless Tiny Home Community

sabatoa — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:51:08 +0000

Not a typical or even attractive development, but it's a development nontheless.

The city purchased 50 tiny house units (aka ModPods) for providing shelter and support services for people experiencing homelessness. Lansing residents can provide input on 5 proposed locations for the tiny home community, and a final site selection is expected on December 18th.

Lansing announces 5 potential locations for tiny home community for homeless

Debbie Stabenow Park, cost $360k
Former El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Academy, cost $500k
Comstock Park, cost $500k
Hunter Park, cost $500k
Reasoner Park, cost $800k

Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/f3hi9

Lansing City Hall redevelopment and replacement

hood — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 03:52:23 +0000

I guess I'll go ahead and get this thread started, keeping this discussion in the general thread is getting cumbersome. (for future reference this is picking up where the General Lansing thread left off on page 333/334 on 2/16/2018)

I'll save this first post for adding renderings, links, etc in the future.

Lansing History

hood — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:47:21 +0000

This is a thread for historic pictures and info on the Lansing area. I'll start off by including the pics that I first posted on Urban Planet. I'm not sure what the photo limit is here, so I'll divide them into a few posts.

Here are some pics of the old REO Factory, which occupied the land from Washington to Cedar and Baker north to the RR tracks. The photos are from the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record.

1. Building #3 (Clubhouse), looking northeast from Washington Avenue.

2. Building #3 (Clubhouse), looking south from Grand Trunk Railroad Station.

3. Building #3 (Clubhouse), interior of ballroom.

4. Building #1 (Administration), looking east from Washington Avenue.

5. Building #1 (Administration), second floor offices.

6. Building #1 (Administration), first floor offices.

7. Building #4 (Engineering), looking northeast from Washington Avenue.

8. Building #5 (Engineering), looking west from interior of plant.

9. Building #5 (Engineering), looking west from interior of plant.

10. Building #2, looking south from Grand Trunk Railroad Station.

11. Building #8, looking northeast from Washington Avenue.

12. Buildings #8 (background) and #7 (foreground), looking northwest from Baker Street.

13. Building #5, looking northwest from interior of plant.

14. Building #5, looking northeast from interior of plant.

15. Building #6 (background) and #8 (foreground), looking southeast from interior of plant.

16. Baker Street Water tower, looking south.

17. Cedar Street water tower, looking north (beyond historic designation area).

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Michigan & Grand development

hood — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:46:05 +0000

Well, I guess we'll see if Granger actually pulls this off:
https://www.facebook.com/100064472181080/posts/1122071116618617/

Waiting on news stories for more info...

Neogen projects & news

hood — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 01:36:20 +0000

Neogen has completed a merger with a 3M division, I'm not sure what this means for their future in Lansing but given their upcoming expansion it doesn't seem they'll be going anywhere. The article also reiterates that construction on their new building is expected to start next month: https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/money/business/2022/09/06/lansing-neogen-merges-with-3ms-food-safety-business/65473623007/

GM

hood — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:54:27 +0000

I was just wondering what peoples thoughts and speculations are on what GM is currently doing and what they may be planning for Lansing, both the Delta Plant and their old sites.

GM seems to be up to something more than what meets the eye, they are constructing a massive railroad head just south of the plant, I heard from an employee it is one of the largest in the nation. GM bought some 2,000 acres at the Delta site and they are ony using a small portion of it. There are rumors that they may move their proving grounds there and/or build another sister plant to Delta. These speculations are not hard to beleive when you step back and look at the known facts about site size, and the large railhead also seems to confirm larger plans.

I realize there was already plenty of discussion about the fate of the old plants on UP, and for me, it really boils down to the fact that GM to my knowledge has never been so quick to tear dow old vacant plants. The sites are slated to be completely cleared within two years of their closing, which is very impressive. One thing I'm curious about is whether or not they are doing environmental clean-up...

And finally, What is to come of the Crafte Center and the Metal Fabricating Plant? GM origionally stated that the Metal Fabricating Plant would be the first to close, now it remains open (I think) and the closing date seems to be continually getting pushed back. And the Crafte Centre has been closed for some time, with rumors of a custom car company taking it over, I forget their name though. Like I said, I just want to hear others input, speculation, and/or knowledge about this stuff.

City Hall building

deebomac — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:53:58 +0000

I remember a few years back there were 4 proposals to revamp the city hall building in to a hotel. Has anyone heard anything new about this or, is this just another Idea that got flushed? The last update that i found was from 2017. Since then, any details if any, have been hard to find. If anyone knows more than i do, fill me in! I was excited about the tallest rendering "Westin Hotel" ...Thank you.

Metro Place (formerly Reutter Park Place, formerly The Lenawee)

hood — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:32:00 +0000

Found this on CBRE's website, The Lenawee AKA Association Project, WOW!

Basic info:
180,000 sq ft
12 floors
4 floor, 750 space parking garage (building sits on top of it)
LEED certified
Track on roof
Mid 2010 completion

The Stadium District

hood — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:24:35 +0000

A forum to discuss the Stadium District development and post updates.

Project Article: The Stadium District

Kewadin Casino

Jared — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:11:47 +0000

Plans were announced today for a 245 million dollar casino located next to the Lansing Center.

Links to more information:
Detroit Free Press
Lansing State Journal
Detroit News

Capital View (Oliver Towers redevelopment)

hood — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:36:00 +0000

It's official, Davenport intends on moving to the Oliver Towers site: Davenport eyes Lansing land swap

Davenport plans on building a 3 floor, 60k sq ft building on the parking lot to the north of Oliver Towers. They said that if approved, work could begin as early as this winter.

Capitol Park Center (formerly SOBI Square, Ottawa & Butler)

hood — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:34:41 +0000

Finally this development is announced: Gold Coast Revival

The renderings are too small to tell much from but they look decent and the siteplan is dense and should really help the area.

Developements as of recent

deebomac — Sat, 11 May 2019 22:16:37 +0000

I am having issues locating the actual renderings of developements in the Lansing area as of recent when i get on here. Is there any way those of you who have links or pictures can leave a comment to catch me up to speed on new developements in Lansing?

I know about 600 Block, and the green light on the Red Cedar developement, Ive also been to The Arcadia so i know about the developement across from there. Does anyone have picture updates or anything new with renderings? What about the city hall space being recommisioned?