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Hopefully soon I will be able to buy a house here, and I think the west side is really nice and I have been looking there. It will be great if they tamed Saginaw/Oakland streets. The speed limit could be lower. When they build what ever it is that w…
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Do you mean that it was burned out when you moved to the south side in '03? Wow that would be a long time. I hope they move sooner on the print shop. It is always strange to drive by the empty expanse on the west side, with 1,000 jobs it would see…
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I have said something similar about lighting along the trail especially downtown and under the bridges. It's kind of creepy walking under the wide bridges even when there is no one down there, really creepy if there is. Of course nothing has ever ha…
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I will be volunteer for the clean up. I wonder if the city can compel property owners to clean up, as there is a very visible bunch of junk thrown over the high bank next to Moores Park. It looks like the trash may have been there for a long time. I…
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I walked downtown yesterday and noticed the shops that were open had people in them. I went on down to the City Market to check out the new grocery. It was pretty nice, and I found a few things to take home, and they did have things like milk bread …
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That is going to look so huge there on Michigan Ave. I do like how the building is right up next to the street. It is very cool to see these big cranes rising up of the skyline.
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There is an interesting article in The City Pulse about the development on E. Michigan. I am very glad to hear that they have gone back to the drawing board. It is nice to hear that the developer has listened to the concerns of the neighborhood. Lik…
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A few REOtown notes. Lansing Uniform moved out of their S Washington store over to Pennsylvania for better parking I guess they said. I think that is too bad because that shop brought a lot of people to the block. When I saw the sign announcing the …
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The new landscaping seems to be finishing up, and it looks really nice around LCC. I really like the rolling lawn in front of the new student center. It is unusual in Lansing to see a project that is nicer than it has to be, as it seems like they pu…
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It would be so great use all the little rail routes that cross the Lansing area to move people. Out east they used a self motorized diesel passenger cars on some lines I think they were called BUD cars. Basically a bus on rails. I could see that so…
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Thanks for the great tree info., it is nice to know I am not the only tree guy around. I have not been over to Baker wood lot since I moved back, I use to go over there a lot when I went to MSU. I am not sure if there is visitor parking near by, a w…
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I can not really comment on the politics of East Lansing, they have always wanted to be separate from Lansing, maybe they will take the Trump route and build a wall.
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Thanks for the tree information, now I already have two stops on the Lansing Big Old Tree Tour! I guess nearly every tree that the 19th century settlers could get to, they cut down. The photos of that time in all of Lower Michigan show a treeless la…
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It is at least interesting that the builders offered a different looking face to Grand River. I want to like it more than I do, I know I can be over critical of these new buildings, but it seems like many of the new buildings in East Lansing have th…
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My last ice rink comment is when I googled Washington Park Ice rink I got a few pages that seem to say that there is a rink in operation there. It could be old pages I am going to drive by there and have a look. The brew pub sounds really great. Lo…
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When I was a kid in the 60's the city would flood the ball fields at at least four parks in the winter for ice skating. We went to Quentin Park. There was a warming house that the neighborhood called the hot house, with no frills like a snack bar, j…
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I went to the Silver Bells celebration downtown for the first time last night. I was very impressed with the whole event, and enjoyed seeing all the folks and kids having so much fun downtown. The shops and restaurants were packed as was the little …
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I also think a more urban design would be so great, buildings up front at the street side, and parking out back. It does make me angry as well in the sense of why spend millions of dollars to make an ugly building in the first place. why such short …
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While driving around these past few sunny days I really noticed how nice the Capitol Building looks after the rehabilitation. They replace many missing details on the dome which make it interesting just to look at it and to pick out the different fa…
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Today is a good day to think about what is French about Michigan. Michigan was a part of France for over 140 years. French was commonly spoken here until the mid 19th century. The explorers, traders, and settlers left us with the sound of French tha…