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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.
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It's great to see this little strip get some attention. I was really glad when the Eastside Party Store closed, I was only in there a couple times and the shelves were practically empty, the only things they seemed interested in selling were alcohol…
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It's good to see this project progressing so quickly, it looks like those are two elevator towers that are already above ground. I'd imagine they have to be getting close to done with the footings since they've been drilling them since demolition be…
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Marshall St is on the left, the field runs parallel to it, the taller part of the school in the foreground looks like a future addition. BTW I was using the two floor section with sloping roof lines to orient myself with the satellite view.
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@gbinlansing CSO stands for Combined Sewer Overflow, there's a detailed overview of what it was here: The CSO Story. If I remember right it was halted because federal mandates were changed so they needed a new program to meet the new mandate (I thin…
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They need to finish the south Washington streetscaping, it was supposed to be done now. I don't understand why stopping the CSO project meant stopping the streetscaping project.
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I wouldn't say what we see here is what we get. The apartment building will likely either get built or not get built, but the listing for the office building still says "build to suit," so there's certainly a chance that we could get something diffe…
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The bodies/chassis (which are the same piece in modern unibody cars), were built at Verlinden and then shipped to Plant 1 for final assembly. I'm not sure specifically what the building west of MLK was used for, but I think it was either where the b…
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I think the size of the apartment building here is fine, although I do wonder why of all the possible locations downtown they would build apartments here, facing the freeway. As I said before, I hate the two floor office building on the corner, I ha…
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There's an item in this weeks city council packet setting a public hearing for a PILOT tax incentive for the Saboury Building at 1113 N Washington. This was proposed quite awhile ago and I thought it was dead, here's a rendering of the initial propo…
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The brownfield packet for South Edge Lofts is in this weeks city council meeting packet, it includes new rendering and a site plans/floor plans: The biggest difference I notice is that the new renderings have an uglier top floor. Wher…
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@MJ I'm always glad to see an out of town developer come into the area, especially when they're taking on what I imagine is a challenging project. Hopefully they'll find some other properties here that interest them. @gbinlansing I'd be almost sh…
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For whatever reason the mobile version of the article has this new rendering where the desktop doesn't. It's higher quality than previous ones and show that the eastern wing of the building will only be 8 floors.