I believe that when the project is finished it will look OK and will add a lot of activity to the south end of downtown. The pluses may outweigh the uninspired design and also attract some action on the rest of the surface parking lots downtown and the old State Journal building.
It isn't bad to have your city leaders right next to your public transit hub, instead of behind a gate on the edge of the city. (Not that that was a consideration this time, but I'm just sayin', location isn't bad.)
It is great to see the corridor filling in, I don't hate the City Hall location, just the building and site layout. Just fyi on the LSJ building, I believe Gentilozzi bought it and there was a rumor from someone at a neighborhood meeting that his intention was to put a car collection in there "or something like that". I'd take that with a grain of salt but it seems plausible, since hearing it I've been wondering if he may be trying to work with the R E Olds Museum to relocate there, more of a personal hope than anything.
Gentilozzi has his own car collection in a local former L&L...read an article on this awhile back, but they were very discreet on the actual location. Could it be his own collection he might be relocating and potentially opening to the public? I'll see if I can find that article...
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Here's the article. I think I placed it to be the L&L/Valueland that was on Waverly and Saginaw. The branding is very much Valuland and not Colonial Village.
I've watched a decent number of the Barn Find Hunters and missed that one, thanks for that.
I have no idea about how real moving his collection to the LSJ building is, the person who said that was a Lansing Housing Commission affiliate who just mentioned it casually. I certainly like the idea of the LSJ building as a car museum, whether for a private collection or involving the R E Olds.
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It isn't bad to have your city leaders right next to your public transit hub, instead of behind a gate on the edge of the city. (Not that that was a consideration this time, but I'm just sayin', location isn't bad.)
EDIT:
Here's the article. I think I placed it to be the L&L/Valueland that was on Waverly and Saginaw. The branding is very much Valuland and not Colonial Village.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/entertainment/barn-find-hunter-shows-us-our-new-favorite-grocer-one-stocked-with-classic-cars/
Could be entirely wrong, but maybe he found a better deal with the LSJ building to store his cars...
I have no idea about how real moving his collection to the LSJ building is, the person who said that was a Lansing Housing Commission affiliate who just mentioned it casually. I certainly like the idea of the LSJ building as a car museum, whether for a private collection or involving the R E Olds.