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This would of been on the north side of the street, I'm pretty sure at the northeast corner of Washtenaw & Townsend.
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Lost Lansing has an article and pictures on the original Scott House, the namesake of Scott Park where the new substation is proposed for: The Scott House - Lost Lansing I also came across a story about a proposal from the 1930's for a seven floo…
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A couple of stories from Greater Lansing Business Monthly... First, a short article giving a status update on the Red Cedar Renaissance and Kewadin Casino projects: Lansing developments move slowly towards completion. The second is a feel-good st…
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The consolidation of some area fire departments is already being seriously considered, while a police consolidation is less likely I think it would be fairly realistic. I doubt schools will be consolidated any time soon, but the parks and roads are …
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I've been checking in on the webcam from time to time and work on the cancer center continued as the parking ramp was being completed, construction has just been slow. I can't imagine it'll be that much longer before the building goes above ground.
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I totally agree that regionalism is necessary to make Lansing more competitive, I think it's going to be awhile before the suburbanites warm up to the idea though. in the meantime some less visible services can continue to be consolidated between co…
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My last couple of negative rants about Lansing have been largely in relation to seeing the multitude of positive things happening in Ann Arbor. I'm to the point know where I accept and understand Grand Rapids' success, it's notably larger than Lansi…
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@gbinlansing I like the idea of a zipline off of Eckert's smokestacks, it almost seems like a very likely use of the smokestacks as part of a larger reuse, maybe there could be a skyswing between two of them also. I've thought before that turning th…
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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…