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I'd really want some kind of commitment to change how the existing revenue is used before I'd feel comfortable voting for something like this, definitely something more than a hint. I don't mind voting for tax increases of this size IF it comes with…
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Shifting my attention away from the Tower on Grand portion of this, I went looking around the parcel viewer to see if I could find anything new. Well, no projects filed with the Washington Square Building. However, I was able to find that New Vision…
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Nice to see someone in power is taking note of this: https://x.com/LSJNews/status/1844468176521699808
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It's taken a bit longer than I thought, but was looking through Windsor Twp's planning commission agendas and saw that they they brought up the site plan review for Consumer Energy's new service center. Was kind of wondering what was taking them so …
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The thing is that that's not really the "front" of the property, at least not functionally, which is kind of what the variance is trying to get around. Since it's a parcel surrounded by public streets, every side is technically the "front." But even…
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Yeah, I almost didn't want to post it. But it's exactly these kind of tiny things that get my blood boiling. I've been complaining forever that they let that entire part of their property become blight. You can literally see it on aerials of the sit…
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Union Missionary Baptist wants to put a common metal storage shed on its property along St. Joseph in the middle of the abandoned and rotted out portion of its excess parking lot fronting that road. Instead of making them tear up what is blight, t…
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Nothing much for council next week. Just stuff making it through the process. Consent agenda has the OPRA for the old gas station in REO Town at Washington and Elm. Ordinances introduced and setting of public hearings are for the Form-Based Code stu…
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Honestly, there is no good logistical reason from them to move from their current building (which is a piece of art) or site. As you correctly pointed out, there is almost not a more perfect site as far as accessibility is concerned.
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I'm not sure if they killed the plan, but all 425 Agreements have a time period in which a project has to be executed, and it's usually a year. So, yeah, that land transfer expired. The 425 Agreement was supposed to be one of the last steps; you ent…
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Yeah, a few years back, Emergent was trying to do something up that way, far enough along that they got DeWitt and Lansing to do another 425 Agreement land transfer for some land up that way. But the land reverted back to Lansing after Emergent drag…
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Yeah, I know those weren't directly comparable, but comparable in that in that, as you say, they are already doing this work at the MLK facility and have for decades. I wasn't even arguing this needed to be downtown; personally, I'm not sure I'd eve…
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I'm surprised that they actually spent on architecture for this one. This is a very nice-looking facility, inside and out. Do wish they'd have kept this in Lansing, but it is what it is, I guess. And, yeah, public health and safety isn't really a re…
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Looks like Grand Ledge approved the rezoning on Saginaw for the massive housing development. They also approved further transfer of land from Oneida Township right across the street for a 55,000 sq ft Sparrow medical office building. This is just on…
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I forget which one, but one of them has 2,000 sq ft of office space on the ground floor. I think it may be Grand Vista Place. I'm not concerned with the tenancy; I feel like that's an old trope. It's not that they are low-income that the design i…
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Okay, I was able to dig back through some packets so we can have these on the record. Riverview 220 Grand Vista Place I'd seen the Riverview 220 rendering. Had not seen Grand Vista Place. I don't want to belabor the point much more …
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Well, some level of "downtown," anyway. DT-1 and DT-2 have what I'd consider pretty stringent height restrictions, 4 stories and 6 stories, respectively, which is honestly basically the same as the lesser commercial districts. The big difference is …
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My baseline for success of the FBC is that a property owner should at least be able to redevelop or develop land to the same densities as in the 1920's or 1930's. I'll accept or tolerate sensible regulations that acknowledge how much more popular au…
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The thing a significantly larger metro population does help is with things that are funded at the county level and those things that factor in potential revenue. I'd say that's why you see something like the Schuster Center in Dayton.
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City council meeting packet for new week: 1. Setting public hearings for the PILOTS (payment in lieu of taxes) for Riverview 220 and Grand Vista Place. Still no attached renderings or site plans. 2. Introduction of ordinance and setting of publi…