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You can still see the stairway the went up to Michigan Ave. on the south side. It was part of the original river walk. the signage is still there and looks cheap and dated. They could rebuild those stairs or maybe have some sort of cool "steam punk"…
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I think these photos are very interesting. Even I am not old enough to remember Sears downtown on Michigan Ave.. So downtown had at least six large department stores! I know that parking and the idea that shopping centers became the ideal place to s…
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I do like the new artwork, I am sure the after 5 part was added at the businesses below request. I have seen people stopping at the new REO Clubhouse mural posing in front and snapping photo's. So theses types of projects really do create "places" w…
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The electric bus is an interesting idea, it would be cool if just by running they recharge their own batteries. May they could get a charge somehow at each stop. Lansing loves internal combustion so it is hard to imagine CATA going electric, but may…
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While it is true I think the should tear the building down and start over, it does not seem like that will happen, not until they build the casino anyway. So I do think that this a positive thing for market and neighbors. I have seen some pretty sma…
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I have never seen that fakey trolley bus in service. They use those things for tourist tours in the little town I lived in out east and I always thought they looked bad and the people on them always looked kind of embarrassed, which leads me to why …
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That is very interesting I had not heard of the other trolley lines. Before they dug up Washington Ave in the 60's you could still see the rails for the street cars, they had trolleys that went all the way to Lake Lansing. History tells us that GM …
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It may not have been on this page I also brought up the idea of connecting Lansing's Classic Neighborhood, Old Town, Downtown, and REO town. I thought it might be interesting and fun to have classic urban buses run a loop through the three areas. …
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This is a great photo, I think they could build a pedestrian version of this bridge to replace the ugly one that goes to the Lansing Center. I wonder what they did with the s…
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I did not live here in '07 so I guess they must have removed the siding at some point,I think this summer it was an entirely field stone facade as it was in the 60's when I grew up. I pointed it out perhaps as an example of a house or building that …
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Thank you to everyone for your interesting thoughts, it is so great to find others who think about these things. I had not thought of it but a R.E. Olds/Lansing history museum would be great in either the old Olds buildings or the Eckhart site. I…
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I am not sure this is the page for this comment, I noticed the little field stone building at corner of Aurelius and Cavanaugh has been clad in vinyl siding. I know that it most be a privet home but it is kind of a shame. Years ago it was kind of a …
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I live right around the bend from the Eckert Plant and I find it have a kind of steam punk personality with the noise it makes as you go by on the river trail, it kind of goes like clunk clunk woerrrrr woerrr pishisssh which seems like such a small …
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Thank you for posting this photo, I have never seen it. I like how they have nice wide plank side walks on both side of the street. I am sure that was a point if civic pride. It is also interesting to note how developed the area is only 30 or 40 yea…
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Thank you for posting this photo, I have never seen it. I like how the have nice wide plank side walks on both side of the street. I am sure that was a point if civic pride. It is also interesting to note how developed the area is only 30 or 40 year…
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I think that when they built WJIM as the TV channel was called then, the building was called the "Country House" or something like that, I guess as a mid-century modern home of course they would have a kidney shaped pool in the backyard. I have not …
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It is great news to hear that they are going to do something with the Oliver towers building. I hope a plan involves re-doing the generic facade. It never was an attractive building for such a prominent spot. I would think that apartments in that bu…
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I think Michigan Ave could connect with a path that goes through the museum area and down to the river trail. That whole area of the trail could use an upgrade, as I have suggested lighting under all downtown bridges would make those parts of the tr…
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I don't know anything other than what I have read here and in the LSJ but I am pretty sure Republicans do not like Lansing or it's Mayor, and their efforts to block this deal seem aimed more toward trying to defeat the Mayor rather than any concern …
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Thank you for your interesting thoughts on the subjects I have brought up. Like you said the drive up Turner is really nice, the landscape is nice rolling fields, big old oak trees covering the roads lots of real farm houses on real farms. The flag …