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I'd be a little surprised if Sparrow ends up razing Eastern, it's a perfectly usable building and tearing it down would go over poorly with the community. They could hold meetings and seminars in the (quite beautiful) auditorium, allow their employe…
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It's not surprising but I'm glad to see this moving forward, it's a nice looking building and adding office workers to downtown EL is no small deal. It'll certainly give that block of Albert an interesting feel, the street is quite narrow there and …
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To be fair that document shows the large parking lots being transformed into a park in the "2020 and beyond" phase so it's not entirely clear that the state isn't still pursuing something like this. I sort of wonder if the site plan in the second li…
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@gbinlansing There has been talk of turning the parking lots between Ottawa and Allegan into a park, there was a federal grant given to explore the possibility a few years ago. It looks like this is what came out of it, I don't remember seeing this …
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I noticed that arch on that house when I was at Papa Johns last week, it's sort of a nice touch. I'm surprised to see what looks like a renovation going on there, I'd honestly rather see most of those houses with storefronts tore down and replaced w…
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Yeah, I've been watching it and I'm not sure how to feel about it yet, I'm sure it'll be decent at worst. I'm really interested how it comes together with all the windows, particularly the first couple floors of facade and the top floor.
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I can't bring myself to pretend that I think that having the mission right on Michigan Ave with all the people congregating on the sidewalk at meal time isn't a significant detractor for that area, it may have well been a factor in that areas declin…
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I'm not a fan of this at all. There's no reason further concentrate the homeless population of the whole area into one of the most important business districts in the area, especially one that's struggling to get over the hump and reach sustained gr…
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@MichMatters Zoning variances can be made and a large entertainment complex is the kind of thing I could almost see the city accommodating in some farther flung location. That being said, I don't think that would be at all desirable and I'd expect t…
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If this were anywhere outside of the downtown core I'd be disappointed, the only other locations I'd even find somewhat acceptable would be the Frandor/Red Cedar Renaissance area or the Eckert site. It's hard to say what specific locations would rea…
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I'm pretty optimistic about the future of Cooley, I do wonder if they will stay in downtown Lansing over the long term given their affiliation with Western though. The number of Cooley students that were downtown 10 years ago was certainly a boon fo…
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I know I've mentioned it several times and I'll continue to say it every time the subject comes up, I think wind turbines suck as an energy source and they destroy the landscape, the problem will be multiplied when they're all left as rotting hulks …
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Oh, wow. That's impressively bad, it takes the spot for the worst new apartment building by a long shot. Trash windows, trash siding and absolutely no thought given to design. This would be unacceptably bad for the most nondescript suburb, let alone…
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I'm guessing that they're close to switching sides, I noticed them setting up the electronic signs (reading just dots right now) and tons of barrels along the sides of the westbound lanes.
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I like this idea and I'm sure there's lots of potentially interesting outdoor spaces that could be created through this. In particular, I always thought it would be cool to use some of the alleys downtown the same way EL and some other cities do. Th…
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Were any of these people involved in the sketchy ebay land sale a couple years ago?
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I've been holding my thoughts on this until it's finished, but as I see it now I agree with you. The materials/ construction quality on the first floor is genuinely good with proper brick and stone work along with good quality storefront windows, th…
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I guess it pretty much goes without saying that this is a really good thing for downtown EL. A modest but nice looking building of an appropriate height/scale with ground floor retail, several hundred employees and a fairly large community space. It…
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That's really good news, those projects should prove really beneficial for their respective neighborhoods. I was wondering about the Allen Neighborhood Center project in particular, it's good to see that it's moving forward. I think the Kalamazoo co…
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@MichMatters It doesn't look bad, just somewhat bland and the materials are just decent, nothing to be excited about. I guess this is sort of the norm for new apartments in this area though, I was just looking at Elevation in Okemos and it's not m…