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I really enjoy Old Bag of Nail over at Red Cedar Renaissance. It's going to be so cool to see the water flowing when the drain project is completed later this year.
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We keep calling it a tunnel, but that would essentially be a skywalk, which wouldn't be the worst thing. The problem is not that it's a tunnel, it's that it's a whole damn parking garage built over the street. We literally just corrected that mistak…
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I heard someone say that the parking was required to get financing for this; I hope that's not true. I'm not a fan of building over the street, either, but my thing is that you literally have a parking garage next to another parking garage; it's ove…
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Reading more of this, I'm a bit excited that so much of this will be workforce housing, and because so much of this is funded with the affordable housing grants we got in the state budget, this isn't a wishful-thinking set of projects. A huge part o…
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Oh, not today. We're not going to start pessimism, today; not with the tallest building proposed in downtown Lansing in since forever. lol Initial complaint to me is that having your tallest book-ended by parking garages in 2023 seems to be going…
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Was trying to see if I could pull up any clues about tomorrow, and noticed the three lots immediately south of the South Grand Parking Garage and north of the Grand Tower sold for $2 million (I'm not sure if it's apiece or altogether) back in March,…
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The QD thing was just some big dumpsters outside and the windows looked new, so it's possible it wasn't even any construction. The Lansing Industrial Center behind it looks like it was also getting new windows or something. I feel like "transform…
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Looks like at their meeting last month, the Lansing EDC is set to repurchase the small surface lot at the northwest corner of Michigan & Cedar next to the Lansing Center for $280,000, the price they sold it to the Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa back …
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Notice some more work going on at QD's headquarters building down on Mt. Hope and Washington. Property assessor page shows a few projects permitted, but most appear to have been completed/expired, so I'm not sure what's going on. The Lansing Industr…
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I was going to mention the old Kalamazoo Gateway proposal. It's funny, though, because I don't expect anything that nice, anymore. It's interesting around that time how nice the architecture being planned was; even the Gillespie's were putting up st…
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I'm just glad because the Michigan Ave location is cramped for them, and this new location will still be centrally located, but have much more room for the Mission to house and deliver resources better. They will apparently develop a new structure o…
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Next week's Planning Commission agenda just dropped. - The Lansing City Rescue Mission is looking for a (spot) rezoning and special use permit for moving its single men's and women's shelters from East Michigan Avenue and Cedar Street, respectiv…
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They'll have to, but it won't mean anything. If the public's opinion meant anything, this wouldn't be taking so many years and they wouldn't be so uncoordinated in planning these things. I don't understand this town, sometimes; it's so small-brai…
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One bay of parking already exists in front of the existing building, so I wasn't surprised to see that. It's just overall shitty urban planning. It's just overall too much parking and poorly sited, to boot. How are they going to justify this on a li…
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As expected the, public safety campus siting is mostly wasted space. Looks like at least half the space on the combined parcels is some form of surface parking. This is kind of what I'd expect a new city hall site to look like, too. Just ZERO…
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Speak of the devil. Beitler wants another bite of the City Hall apple Chicago-based developer J. Paul Beitler is still ready to buy Lansing City Hall and renovate it into a hotel. “Right now,” as he put it — six years after his first attempt…
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The LSJ did an update on the public safety headquarters the other day. I was glad to hear that they were able to shave off about 10% of the cost because the mayor was able to convince some ratings agencies to upgrade Lansing's bond rating; it's $175…
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Yes, it's my understanding that when they get through with all of the heavy work, that the street will be repair as part of the overall project. It's supposed to happen some time this year.
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Yeah, it is a pretty basic street reconfiguration, not really a streetscape project. What I'm excited about is the elevated pathways next to the sidewalks. It's funny, because I've been down Michigan the past few days and can't even imagine there…
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Looks like Delta beat everyone else in the region to this. lol Delta Township officials approve measures to allow 'cottage housing.' DELTA TWP. — Township officials have voted to allow developments featuring homes as small as 440 square feet.…