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Isn't the university club owned by MSU? I wouldn't think they would work too hard to interfere with any reasonable placement of a pathway around there. I'm not sure a playground further north at Riverfront Park would really get used that much, th…
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Each one of those is a potentially interesting project. I imagine/hope we'll see something similar to the old Kalamazoo Gateway proposal for that site, I honestly would kinda like if they just reused that design. I have no idea what to expect for th…
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I was recently looking for old aerials and came across this site that makes it very easy to switch between years: https://www.historicaerials.com/viewer . I feel like I might be late to the party, but I remember having trouble finding something like…
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My comment regarding the apartment building on Miller was more in regard to the state of the neighborhood to the north of there, specifically the apartments on Orchard and Richwood. When I had friends over that way 10 years ago there were a lot of p…
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It's not a great area but a small apartment building is very appropriate for that site, the neighborhood directly to the north is all apartments and duplexes. I'm not sure whether I'd prefer commercial space there but I certainly wouldn't argue that…
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I understand the hesitancy from the council, putting residential space into what was designed and proposed as commercial space is less than desirable. That being said, IMO it's very important to get ground floor storefronts in most of these sorts of…
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--How is someone going to build on a small piece of land along Washington/Grand/Capitol or even Michigan Ave without off-site parking for residents and/or employees? Besides, I don't think there are a ton of empty parking spaces downtown during peak…
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I'm still hoping for a simple renovation of City Hall, possibly moving the police into a separate facility. The performing arts center appearing to move closer to reality is great news, as is addressing the problems with the parking ramps/lots. A…
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@gbinlansing I'm not a subscriber, did the article mention anything about the Lake Trust project? I'm still not sure how serious their proposal was there, I don't even remember if it jumped through all the necessary hoops with the city or not yet.
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Yeah, that site plan is pretty much as I remembered it, just "meh". It's not bad but I do agree that having more of a grid-like layout would be good. It looks like they're trying to isolate each area of retail, apartments, townhouses and single fami…
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Well, if it isn't Gillespie developing this then that makes it even more interesting. If it's the Eydes then I think this will be our first look at a ground-up mixed use development from them, won't it?
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@sabatoa I'm torn with a project like this. I would strongly prefer to see the land developed but I agree that it sucks to see such a mediocre development get built there. I'd like to know why developers make the choices they make sometimes, I get t…
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I'm assuming Gillespie still owns this? He had proposed the movie studio here some years ago. This project certainly sounds promising, it would go a long way towards cementing the future of the Cedar/Larch corridor as an actual part of downtown. …
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I'll echo the disappointment here on seeing TechSmith choose such an uninspiring location. I do not support giving tax incentives to suburban office developments. Tax incentives are, in part, supposed to be a tool to encourage more desirable develop…
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Regardless of whether it's been formally vacated, I think rebuilding Washtenaw would be best for the neighborhood and best for the development prospects at that site. I hope Eyde or whatever developer ends up with this property at least considers re…
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The 7 block fiasco continues to disappoint me, has it really only been seven years? It feels like it's been so much longer. I'm not even too sure what I'd like to see here, it'd be nice to see Washtenaw rebuilt all the way through while the seven bl…
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@MichMatters I really have trouble wrapping my head around all the changes involved in the form based code, I haven't really dug into it yet. I'm pretty sure I remember you giving some explanations of it before here, can you point me back to one of…
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That's a nice picture, Agreed on your last point. I think one of the biggest things holding downtown back at this point is the fact our downtown commercial district basically consists of three and a half blocks of Wahsington Sq, to have a metro a…
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If you're ever interested in municipal boundaries in general you can just search a city or township on Google Maps and it will outline its borders in red.
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That rendering would make for a nice building but it clearly shows a five floor building, if what they build actually ends up being three floors and 100k sq ft it will be quite a bit different from what's shown.