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I'll miss that little lot at Shiawassee and Pere Marquette as a spot to watch the fireworks from but it is a good spot for apartments. I'd love to see Gillespie to a simple brick building with the look of an old warehouse converted into apartments t…
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Of course they can physically fit two way streets there but I'm not sure what traffic would be like. If they were to ever reduce lanes on Saginaw/Oakland there'd have to be a lot of thought given to where they push traffic to, you'd probably have to…
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I'm happy to see Sparrow expanding, the additional jobs will be nice and I'm glad they're not tearing down Eastern for this. That being said I'm still not a fan of the surgical center project, I don't like the vacating of a street and I don't like t…
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I can't say I'm a huge fan of the building but brutalist designs have grown on me over the years and the Lake Trust building is decent. I'm not optimistic about what they'd end up doing if they were to heavily alter the facade so I'm content to see …
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I've long thought that the stretch of Cedar in between the river and Cavanagh has good potential to become sort of a semi-urban district with some mixed use buildings and apartments along Cedar along with a general trend to build closer to the stree…
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I finally looked at the rendering on the banner for the Lake Trust site and all I can say is "meh". I don't mind them leaving the concrete facade largely or entirely intact but I do wonder about what they'll be adding to it, it's hard to tell from w…
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If they actually do the entire Lake Trust block the way that's depicted there then I'd be a pretty happy guy. I noticed they had some new equipment there today, including an excavator over by the small office building, they may be tearing that down.…
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That is very good news about the old West Junior, I was wondering if the school district still owned it and how long it would take to see redevelopment. The building could look quite good with the reversal of the modernization efforts to the facade …
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A hotel would seem to me to be a lot better use although I don't think the building is very good for that or residential. If they owned the parking lot next door building a high rise hotel there would make a ton of sense using the Temple building's …
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From my anecdotal experience many kids put their parents house as their address regardless, enough of the few people that I talked to about it did that to make me think it is a very, very common thing. Given this affects everywhere, but I'd expect i…
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I can't say I'm surprised, it is Lansing Township after all. That stretch of Saginaw really needed a boost to get it pointed in the right direction, these businesses will not do much if anything to further that cause.
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I really think some of these trends are attributed to students and young people in general keeping their "home" address at their parents house, mostly in order to keep their parents health insurance until 26. Sure, they could technically answer the …
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It doesn't seem right but it is what it is. Perhaps with the resurgence of the east side there's been a significant uptick in students renting over there, or throughout the city for that matter. It doesn't take a huge chunk of 50k students to make u…
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I noticed that the Lake Trust block has been fenced off, maybe something is finally moving forward with that project?
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At one point part of the plan was to build rain gardens in Frandor's parking lot, I'm not sure if that stayed part of the plan. I'm in the same boat of being very interested to see what all this looks like when it's done.
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They haven't done anything with the building yet. As far as I can tell that rendering is just a conceptual rendering showing what a prospective tenant could do, I think they had another rendering for that same property at one point.
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I wouldn't complain if someone moved forward with that vision for that property, it looks fairly nice.
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I'm happy to this moving forward finally. Looking at the rendering behind them it looks like it's been downsized to 5 floors, was that already stated before?
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It's a nice looking low-slung design, if it's built well I certainly won't have any complaints. Well, besides wishing they'd of located in one of the downtowns. @MichMatters When I made that post June 18 it looked like they were digging trenches …
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I haven't seen any renderings or site plans, nor have I heard any details on the building. I'm not sure if they ever even said the square footage. Being a corporate headquarters, even a small one, I'd expect it to be fairly nice.