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  • I could see a Lansing- Art -History and Culture Center. This could include history galleries, retail, gallery spaces, classrooms practice studios and the like. There only a small space in the downtown Library basement to display historical items fro…
  • I saw a WILX report about the affordable housing that is going up downtown on the south side. The depictions are awful. I hope they are just first concept drawings.
  • I am visualizing an awesome design right now!
  • I would say the red brick looks like many of the buildings built in the '60s like Erickson Hall, with some modern touches. It's OK. I wonder about the ornate Academic Gothic designs of the central campus and what they would cost in today's dollars, …
  • How about that! I read in last Sunday's New York times about Michigan's turn around in housing, from having an overload of old bad housing to a shortage of good housing now in 2024, with rents and home prices rising even in rural areas like White Cl…
  • While I do comment on this page and The Daily Kos rarely, I have been off of social media like Facebook since I was following a foraging group that became political when discussing where and what one should feel free about foraging wild plants and m…
  • Very Cool! thanks for posting! Is the River Trail still closed at 127?
  • I understand that GR is bigger and richer than Greater Lansing, I would just like to see a little more imagination and excitement I guess in the projects we do have. There are exceptions but it seems to me that many projects are not really special …
  • I saw a report about the huge redevelopment of the Grand Rapids riverfront. In includes a soccer stadium, hotels, retail and housing, a new riverwalk with bridges across the Grand River and has had the State funding approved. Wow why can't we dream …
  • I believe that Walter French was in much worse shape, but somehow it will soon be full a lot of residents who will become a community of neighbors. I may have adolescent opinion, but I believe the U of M seems to take some satisfaction in placing th…
  • Today I walked up to check on the Farm Lane Bridge and a there was an opening ceremony going on and I believe I saw the university's president drive over the bridge in a green and white '70's Cadillac convertible. After watching this construction al…
  • Thanks for posting some great looking projects happening around here.
  • Over at the new International Student Center on Farm Lane they are starting to install the exterior facade panels, which are dark green? with darker and lighter panels both shinny and mat finishes. The treatment looks good, and the building seems to…
  • I hope the city would not allow a cyclone barbed wire fence in front of what could be called an historic building. Is crime that bad around there? Over on Michigan I noticed a new building going up at the GM auto dealership.
  • Wow they finally have taken up "my" idea for the fish ladder. I wonder has anyone ever seen a fish going up the ladder? I was around when they built it [for the new introduced salmon] and I never saw any fish.
  • I don't "hate" this depiction, it looks like the apartments will have balconies which will make the building look like an apartment building not an office tower. However, is looks more generic than the last drawings, I would like to see a design tha…
  • It is kind of a miracle but they city sold City Hall and the hotel plan is going to happen!
  • Meanwhile the Farm Lane bridge is looking very nice. Crews are installing the streetlights, they have a vintage look, similar to the lamp posts around the central campus. There are two tall lamp posts at each end and several shorter lamp post in bet…
  • Yes, it seems like a new "artist" is inflicting his ego on us around town recently. The new sound barrier walls next to the Cherry Hill neighborhood has been tagged with big dumb tags, nothing artistic about it. I would like to see the fools who do …
  • I hope that the development of the Genesee School does happen. It is such a great building, quite different from other Lansing elementary schools. Maybe they will hire the same people who did the Holmes Street School, they did a really nice-looking …