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Came across this which has been in development since earlier this year. Earlier in the year, Grand Ledge and Oneida Twp entered into a 425 Agreement to conditionally transfer 78 acres to the city along Saginaw Highway just outside/non-contiguous wi…
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Pulled it up: Michigan Retail Hardware Association, so a trade association headquarters, which makes sense. They usually have nice little buildings like this. Yeah, North Point surprised me, because I really thought they were just going to tear i…
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Oh, on the cleanup on the old Fisher Body plant, the EDC approved acceptance of the grant. The one thing extra we find out from the meeting minutes is that it's being prepped for future manufacturing development, and they say the remediation is a 5-…
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Looks like the EDC got a grant for the Barber College at the old redone plaza (North Point Plaza) at Lake Lansing and Larch - it looks really nice! - to move to 4414 South Penn. It's a nice, glass faced modernist building just south of Cavanaugh; I'…
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Monkey see; monkey do. lol We'll see what comes out of it, I guess.
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The central problem with East Lansing that has shown itself plainly in the last two decades in particular is that it's still a very "small-town"-minded local government. It never grew with the physical growth of the city, and the regular city voters…
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Trying to figure out where the child development lab would be in Lansing. As for the MSU Foundation, that's interesting. Techsmith is already there, so it looks like they are trying to create a district. I do like that the uni is finally doing some…
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I don't know, but this is always a problem with rain gardens. As you've probably noticed over the years, the ones on Michigan Avenue can get quite bad with trash that water brings with it. Those are the city's responsibility since they are in the ro…
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Oh, the ones in the parking lot would be Frandor. And the city in the park. The drain commissioner's office doesn't own any of that land.
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@citykid I noticed in the Planning Commission meeting minutes from earlier this month the piece of business about the sale of the Lansing Building Authority's parcel for the new Public Safety Complex that I'd brought up recently. It's mentioned t…
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I feel like people don't often realize just how much larger GR is in every way (urban population, metro, etc). You stack that on top of it being run by a handful of ridiculously wealthy families, and it's just not comparable to us in any real way. I…
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Thanks for the heads-up. And the D&P Committee documents correct what I'd reported on a few days back in the full council agenda packet, namely the number of units, for which only the number of subsidized units was given in the latter. So Riverv…
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This all started with them announcing that they were perhaps moving their offices to the housing development being planned.
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Okay, had to edit that out. Had a major brainfart. lol But since I inadvertently brought it up, I wonder if they've had any formal talks with CATA about how to fit them in? This could end up being quite a substantial and Grand (to match its addre…
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Two PILOTS (payment in lieu of taxes) are submitted next week for the housing in the Cherry Hill neighborhood, finally. The first is Riverview 220 (56 units) that we've been talking about, the the other one is the 500 South Grand/Cherry (55 units) w…
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I hadn't even connected the Walter French renovation to this one. lol That building caught on fire multiple times, too. The last one was in January of last year, in fact. Same with the old Genesee Elementary finally about to be renovated. Eastern ha…
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We live in the state of Michigan where we've seen buildings as far gone as the Book Cadillac and Michigan Central Station in Detroit saved from this: There should be not even an inkling of entertaining that Michigan Medicine - which is pr…
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Perhaps it's not legally permissable to say publicly, but at least within the city government there needs to be an understanding that if they want to take this building down, there will be absolutely no help from the city for this; no tax incentives…
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but I think there will be backlash when people see them be built You think so? I don't imagine there will be any significant pushback. As you said, I think the regulations you guys have put on them (particularly the height ones) are conservat…
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@citykid how did the Planning Commission meeting end up with the ADUs and such?