Develop.MetroLansing

MSU Development

Jared — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:24:36 +0000

Please post your thoughts about MSU's Campus Master Plan here.

The site can be viewed at http://www.2020vision.msu.edu/construction/update.jsp

Streets & Transit

TEXigander — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:37:21 +0000

I am surprised I didn't see anything about this information in the news. Right now it's pretty popular to talk about mass transit records in the news all across the country. Based on the press release the average weekday ridership for route 1 is about 6,500. The route was up more than 25,000+ riders form April 2007 vs. April 2008. Anyhow, I figured I'd post this information on here for discussion in case there are any other mass transit buffs like myself.

Record Numbers Turn to CATA for Transportation

Lansing, MI-CATA increased fares and pass prices on April 7, 2008. Ridership normally drops after fares go up. Contrary to that trend, CATA recorded its highest April ridership ever with customers taking 1,154,241 CATA rides. This marked the 6th time in 7 months that CATA monthly ridership exceeded 1 million rides. This total represents a system-wide (all services) increase of 5% compared with April of last year...

here is the link for the full press release:
http://cata.org/news/releases/recordnumbers.html

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

Lansing Area Parks, Trails and Nature

hood — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 18:14:36 +0000

A new thread to replace the lost parks thread...

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

Lansing Area Photos and Construction Updates

hood — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:23:20 +0000

I made this thread to aggregate pictures and construction updates from around the area.

I finally made it out and took some pictures around downtown and the Red Cedar area. Flickr album with pictures: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmX8agT8

[Edit by Jared on June 1, 2024: I've had to remove these pictures from this post as our bandwidth is at peak levels and these are large images hosted on our server. The images that were on this post can be found in the flickr link above.]

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

Off topic thread

Coolbrezze — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:53:07 +0000

Off topic thread

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.

General Lansing Township Development

Jared — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:57:45 +0000

These pictures are of the Riverwalk Apartments located on Clippert by the Red Cedar Golf Course. They should be completed and ready to move in by Fall.

My PhotoStream on Flickr

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...

Website Updates

Jared — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:12:49 +0000

Do you have any features or additions to the current website that you would like to see?