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I've seen things in a 'letter from the mayor' before any public proposal was made, generally when regarding tax incentives. Regarding the land bank ownership, I don't know. The first thing I did when you mentioned the nature of PILOT incentives w…
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I don't know, the letters appear alongside a letter regarding the Abigail project which would somewhat imply that they're something else new. As for them being public or co-op housing, I'm not sure exactly what can and can't fall under the PILOT pro…
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While I don't know the specifics of the PILOT program, I am familiar with its existence as a development incentive. I was speaking more to wondering what the "Capital Park Center" and "Walnut Park Apartments" apartments might be. I don't know of any…
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There's also a couple of interesting 'Letters from the Mayor' regarding PILOT programs for "Capitol Park Center" and "Walnut Park Apartments", the actual letters are replaced by "not available at time of print" text so who knows what these actually …
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As long as it's built up to the street, uses quality materials, has a good design and includes at least some ground floor retail I'd be happy with this, four floors is about the minimum height I'd like to see but I'm pretty happy about it being a ho…
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@gbinlansing I don't want to go too much further down the political rabbit hole than I already have, so I'll just say that liberalism and conservatism are two sides of the same coin and both ideologies would be capable of destroying this country if …
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You seemed like you were beating around the bush, I was simply stating that I'm totally comfortable with a more overt political debate. These are political issues, there's no way to discuss them without being political and no point in not being clea…
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Just a note, I think Bernero unloading the River Trail and the zoo to the county were a couple of the best moves he made since he gained office. The county's stewardship of the zoo has been massively beneficial as things are looking brighter there t…
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@gbinlansing This kinda goes back to my rant the other day about the lack of vision and drive to really get things done (although I know this project in particular depends more on the State than the City.) So much seemed to happen on the public side…
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Reading over the Forever Park proposal and seeing the site plan/rendering I'm pretty disappointed in the design they came up with, the proposal from the 80's was vastly more interesting. The design they show seems like nothing more than a grassy fie…
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Regarding the neighborhood north of Willow, I'd always thought the houses up there looked like they were a significant notch down in quality relative to the neighborhoods south and east of there. They seem to be smaller with less of the craftsmen to…
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Yeah, I think the location for the zipline is right also, it's high profile but not highly utilized. My bet would be that this will happen, it seems like a relatively modest proposal and I expect it should do well. Little things like this can help a…
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I thought I heard this mentioned before, but City Pulse has a story on a developer who will be leasing part of Riverfront park north of Saginaw to build a zipline over the river: Let it Zip - City Pulse
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It's sad this city has been so lacking in vision for the past 40-50 years. Even now we only have a trickle of investment in the central city and most of the buildings built are mediocre both in design and quality. It's sad to see other cities exceed…
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I think I've mentioned an old failed project my dad told me about called SpiraMart, a 31 floor building proposed for the block that the Radisson and One Michigan sit on. My dad found a news blip from the Detroit Free Press while searching newspaper …
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This is a building that I would've never expected to see a renovation, yet here it is getting a new facade and it will occupied by a tenant(s) that makes total sense for the area. It's very good to see an off the beaten path building like this get a…
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The problem is that from Seymour to the Oakland-Saginaw junction there's no room to make Saginaw five lanes, much less allow room for right turn lanes or bike lanes, the exception being if you're willing to tear down one side of the street like on M…
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Not to get sidetracked, but I've wondered how the "Don't Tread on Me" flag ever became controversial. It's a symbol of the most important time in our country's history and represents a pretty good philosophy. If anything I think it would be worth fl…
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There aren't any simple answers when it comes to the one way portions of Saginaw/Oakland and Larch/Cedar. It's obvious that making them two way would be best for the neighborhoods and the businesses in the area, but accommodating the traffic is ulti…
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Penfil is its original name, I didn't know the new developer had renamed them. I assumed they were open as I've seen lights on and what looks like curtains/blinds in the windows as I've passed by.