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Miller is not some local or neighborhood stretch, but literally connects one side of the city to the other. And the building is setback far enough and is not a solid vertical face. If you can't build stuff like this in a literal industrial zone beca…
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That old commercial property is being totally rebuilt, but it's been like that for years, now. Maybe one day they'll actually finish it. lol I know part of it used to be an old ugly dollar store with vinyl-looking siding. I think the other unit may …
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Saw this in the Board of Zoning Appeals agenda from today. Nationals Soccer Club wants to build a 125,000 sq ft sports dome down on East Miller a few properties away from the Hope Soccer Complex. It would have fields for soccer, 4 basketball courts,…
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Thanks for the update! So, what happened at the D&P Committee? I always forget the steps in this volleyball-like process. I think what may be effecting it more than the colors is the darkness - of lightness - of the property lines overlay? Ma…
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Looks like the form-based code amendment and the ADU ordinance are up for review at tomorrow's Development & Planning Committee. I think this means this gets passed at the next council meeting (March 24)? https://lansingmi.portal.civicclerk.c…
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Something for anyone that may have time to go:
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Lymon, I had never heard about Krieger Klatt, but apparently it's a small shop based out of Royal Oak. It looks like their bread-and-butter are high-end customs homes, though they do commercial stuff, too. But it really does seem like a weird choice…
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I am almost tired of complaining. Almost. lol What is clear is that even with Bernero, the singular focus was on getting the current City Hall to Beitler for their hotel, and literally everything else was of secondary concern to these city administr…
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I'm in a bit of disbelief, I think; like, is this a prank? lol I'm just now realizing that this will basically maybe be as tall as the neighboring Riverview 220 and Grand Vista Place? I'm genuinely confused. This is like a standard issue suburban of…
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Narrator: It was not something substantial. I like the use of what appear to be high-quality materials on the front, and that's really about it. The scale of this is not befitting a city of 112,000 in a region of half-a-million people. To be …
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Local media announcing that the mayor will show off designs for the new city hall, tonight. A reminder that this site is an acre and the current city hall sits on about 0.7 acres, so not a major different in size; just the size of the sites would me…
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Photo from WILX: Very telling that they've been discussing this for years, and they haven't even released a preliminary rendering of site plan of what they propose to put here.
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I'm not exactly sure why it's not shown in this rendering, but the berm in front of the redone Marathon at Saginaw and Abbot won't be touched, because MDOT actually owns the triangle-shaped piece of land at the corner. There will also be a screening…
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It was exactly as I feared. The City Pulse made it clear recently that the actual facility would even stand in the footprint of the existing building. So, indeed, this is being torn down for parking and a green "buffer." This is exactly why I oppose…
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It's actually pretty common. Railroads typically hang onto abandoned railway lines in case new customers come up somewhere along the line in the future. It's kind of delusional given mode shifts, but that's what their reasoning is. I'm not clear on …
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Maybe I wasn't clear. The highlighted lots are owned by the railroad. Again, what this does, functionally, is make it so that the city doesn't have to deal legally with the railroad, anymore, particularly where the old ROW runs directly through the …
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It was vacated railroad right-of-ways, so it has effectively been greenspace for years. It could just be that the city finally got an opportunity to buy it. Or, like you said, maybe they have some more pathways planned, but now it means they don't h…
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I'd always wanted to see these parcels saved for some kind of transit lane (bus or streetcar) since it's a direct, non-street connection between Old Town and Downtown. Anyway, the city applied for, and won, a state grant to buy these four parcels to…
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Reading in the LSJ that Aldi's is planning a store in the township on Lake Lansing near Wood Road. Most particularly, right across from the new Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurant and next door to Asbury United Methodist Church. People who go by h…
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The flood zone kind of cuts diagonally across the area bound by Clemens on the west and Michigan-ish on the north. It really shows how if water gets in through the Kalamazoo Street opening in the freeway, how hard it is to get out since all the natu…