The first is the site of the Red Cedar Flats development that Scott Chapelle is building on Grand River. Nobody working on the site today and it's been in this state for a few weeks. Not sure what the delay is for.
The second picture is of The Rocks development over at Chandler Crossings. This just opened in August and are right next to all of the other Chandler Crossings developments near Chandler Rd and Coleman Rd.
The third picture is of a site near the corner of Lake Lansing Rd and Abbot Rd, on the northeast corner just behind the strip with Marco's Pizza. The site is being cleared and trees are being removed, but I haven't heard about what may be coming in there.
See, The Rocks is a perfect example of how you can do little things, architecturally, to mitigate the ugliness of cheap, vinyl-sided apartment buildings. The stone (is that field stone, or faux field stone?) and the shingles take some of the edge of the otherwise ugliness off the thing.
I agree. It looks like there are only shutters facing Chandler Rd. It would have been nice if they included shutters next to all of the windows throughout the rest of the development.
The Rocks were already complete at the time that comment was made. The Cottages are supposed to be on the east side of Abbott just north of Lake Lansing on that site being cleared of trees (I noticed the trees being cleared around a month ago).
I'm dumbfounded that they're still planning more apartments that way, from what I understand they've had trouble leasing apartments at The Rocks, a girl I worked with lived there and she said there was lots of problems, people say the same thing about The Village and The Club. I'm really wondering how this area ends up as the bulk of student housing shifts closer to campus.
That's interesting. The sign for The Orchard was definitely at the site of The Rocks before construction of The Rocks and the website for The Orchard is no longer up. I guess The Orchard and The Cottages are different and I was confused. But The Orchard was a much smaller scale development before it got turned in to The Rocks.
I think the area is getting quite a reputation and not a good one. It might just be because it's so many apartments with young people and cheap rent, but there has been more than one high-profile violent crime (shootings, armed robberies, etc...) from that area over recent years.
I agree that the stone bricks and shingles are nice looking, but over all I wonder why so much pavement. I think that is really strange they would only put the shutters on the street facing buildings. How much could they cost per unit? Do you really think they did that on propose to save money? I also agree that the area is over built with apartments. I don't think the number of students is rising, who else would want to live there?
A lot of these developments seem to be sprawl for the sake of sprawl out there and all around East Lansing, do they make money, are people happy living there, does the development add aesthetically to the community, add value? There are not too many that can say yes to any of these questions.
It is not in East Lansing, but a good example of sprawl seemingly for the sake of it, is a lot on St.Joe just east of Waverly. There was a little house on a deep lot that must of had 75 big trees on it. It has taken months for them to clear that land pulling up all those stumps, the soil they dug up is black and rich looking. I can not help but wonder what great thing they are going to build there, on a street with hundreds of acres of already paved over empty land. I am hoping at least it is not more self storage units.
It looks like there are 24 windows per building above the ground floor. Shutters can be purchased from Home Depot for about $50 per pair. That would be $1,200 per building and the satellite view shows 8 buildings. Installation would probably double the cost, being conservative. So in total, shutters on all windows would have added $19,200 to the development costs.
Update on the development at the corner of Grand River and Spartan Ave on the site of the old Tasty Treat (née Tasty Twist). On February 25th it was approved by the Brownfield Redevelopment Authority. It will go in front of the City Council for public hearing on April 12th, after which it will need to be approved at a later date before work can begin.
It is now called White Oak Place, presumably after the 225 year-old tree that is becoming the focal point of the development. The development will be 6 floors, with 69 apartments and 213 beds. There will be first-floor parking and commercial, with the top five floors having residential.
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The first is the site of the Red Cedar Flats development that Scott Chapelle is building on Grand River. Nobody working on the site today and it's been in this state for a few weeks. Not sure what the delay is for.
The second picture is of The Rocks development over at Chandler Crossings. This just opened in August and are right next to all of the other Chandler Crossings developments near Chandler Rd and Coleman Rd.
The third picture is of a site near the corner of Lake Lansing Rd and Abbot Rd, on the northeast corner just behind the strip with Marco's Pizza. The site is being cleared and trees are being removed, but I haven't heard about what may be coming in there.
By the way, The Rocks is what ended up getting built at the site of "The Cottages", which was supposed to be 13 duplexes. This was previously discussed at http://develop.metrolansing.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=19&Focus=7528#Item_19
I'm dumbfounded that they're still planning more apartments that way, from what I understand they've had trouble leasing apartments at The Rocks, a girl I worked with lived there and she said there was lots of problems, people say the same thing about The Village and The Club. I'm really wondering how this area ends up as the bulk of student housing shifts closer to campus.
A lot of these developments seem to be sprawl for the sake of sprawl out there and all around East Lansing, do they make money, are people happy living there, does the development add aesthetically to the community, add value? There are not too many that can say yes to any of these questions.
It is not in East Lansing, but a good example of sprawl seemingly for the sake of it, is a lot on St.Joe just east of Waverly. There was a little house on a deep lot that must of had 75 big trees on it. It has taken months for them to clear that land pulling up all those stumps, the soil they dug up is black and rich looking. I can not help but wonder what great thing they are going to build there, on a street with hundreds of acres of already paved over empty land. I am hoping at least it is not more self storage units.
It is now called White Oak Place, presumably after the 225 year-old tree that is becoming the focal point of the development. The development will be 6 floors, with 69 apartments and 213 beds. There will be first-floor parking and commercial, with the top five floors having residential.
See http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2016/03/19/22m-e-grand-river-development-proposal-saves-ancient-tree/81930116/ for a rendering and more information.