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

hoodhood
edited May 2019 in Lansing
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.
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  • JaredJared
    Looks good. It's always nice to hear of another unused piece of land being developed. The renderings would be nice to see, but I wouldn't get too attached to them, as they will most definitely change with the market. The next step is to work on getting rid of the surface lots nearby.
  • hoodhood
    edited December 2007
    LSJ story from today: Developer set to build housing near downtown Lansing

    It says he hopes to begin construction in the spring with phased construction being completed in 2011. I hope he starts with the mixed use building and other structures along Ottawa.

    I scanned the siteplan & elevations out of city pulse:
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  • AdieozAdieoz
    This area must have been quite something to see when it was built...just take a drive by the homes that are still there. Does anybody have any old photos? I am excited to hear that the developer is considering how the development will connect with the existing neighborhoods. I think overall the design in quite good.
  • hoodhood
    I've had problems trying to find old photos of this area, but I still need to look at the CADL's collection of historic photos. Looking at fire maps though, there were quite a few rowhouses, low rise apartments and pretty large houses in the area that is now the Captiol Complex and Capitol Commons.
  • hoodhood
    I think that the state may even be open to the idea of giving up some of it's parking lots, I hadn't really given that idea much thought. I think at least the ones south of the state library, maybe the one west of the Cass building could be gotten rid of. Also the lot east of Constitution Hall is privately owned, so hopefully something will happen with that in the relatively near future.
  • AdieozAdieoz
    LMich, I totally agree. What a unique opportunity to create an entirely new neighborhood right in the heart of the city! It makes me a little sad to drive through there right now and see how disconnected this part of town seems...a parking lot waste land.
  • JaredJared
    Townsend closed today on a 5-acre parcel at Townsend & Sycamore for $460,000. The next step is to get it rezoned. I sure hope this project moves along fast, and I wish it the best of luck in today's housing market.
  • hoodhood
    I think the two developments will appeal to very different people though. Ottawa @ Butler is meant to appeal to a wider variety of people, including families and more traditional suburban dwellers. Kalamazoo gateway is targeted more towards urban dwellers, like the other developments going up downtown.
  • hoodhood
    It's a touchy market because nobody knows when the limit will be reached. Right now developers are simply filling pent-up demand, who knows how many units can be absorbed into the market. I seen in the LSJ some time ago that a company that did a survey said downtown could absorb 600 units, we're nowhere near that yet.
  • jwswritesjwswrites
    It's important, too, to remember that the housing project over at Ottawa and Butler can be phased over a number of years. So unlike Gateway, which has to be built all at once, Gene Townsend can build it one small piece at a time over the next few years. I would look for the pace to be slower than Printer's Row - but even those units sold fairly well despite a location by a freeway offramp.

    And there are a number of apartment units in the Gateway. Good apartments are filling up pretty easily downtown.

    If everything in both projects were to be for-sale condos, and he were to build all the units at once (which a bank would never let him do), then he'd be in trouble.
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