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What constitutes conservatives amongst the council? I'm extremely pro-development but I'd sorta like to be more selective with tax incentives, that's my most important city government issue. I'm also pro marijuana industry for whatever that's worth.
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I missed that there was an election. Who's up this time? Do you have any opinions on the candidates?
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I would agree that a Grand Ave site, and the old Michigan Theater in particular, would be just about as good as the Lake Trust site. I vaguely remember in a previous article about the PAC them mentioning that several developers were interested in a …
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As far as I knew the Wendy's was bought out by the people who built the new apartment building there. I think they were going to tear it down when they were planning a larger second building at the West end of the site.
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City Pulse has an article on the early results of the performing arts center feasibility study. The consultant they spoke to suggested a main hall capacity of 1,400 and a smaller venue holding around 200 people, he says these are conservative number…
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This definitely isn't a great looking building but I just keep reminding myself of how many market rate units are being added to the neighborhood. It looks like the building proposed for the Lake Trust site a couple blocks away will be at least a sm…
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According to the cpix listing the Prudden Tech Center is 133k sq ft total and there's currently 115k sq ft for lease. It looks like they are/were planning solar car ports over the 630 spaces in that lot.
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@gbinlansing I'm all around that neighborhood pretty frequently, up and down the streets including the dead ends and I have to disagree. This neighborhood is too isolated from main thoroughfares and commercial districts, too many of the houses are s…
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I'm content without any crazy colors here, I'm just still surprised at just how much difference those windows make. I wouldn't call it eye-catching but it's design is simple and the materials are quality, it'll age well. Now just to get LCC to do so…
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It's nice to see this is becoming reality, I really hope he puts some nice windows in there. Regarding the demand, I'd say if the prices for the units are appropriate for their size then he shouldn't have a problem leasing them. I'm also glad t…
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I'm still so-so on the Cherry Hill project. I just wish they'd do a little something extra with the facade and roof. I'd like to see a little variation in the facade, maybe more prominent porches, bay windows or something similar. That, coupled with…
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That makes a lot more sense, but it still seems like a pretty realistic hurtle to get over. If I were in the section of the township around 127 from Michigan to Kalamazoo I'd definitely be petitioning to become part of the city because it would like…
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I agree that the scale here is pushing it, but if they were to actually adhere to what I'm seeing in these renderings I wouldn't have any objections to this project at all and it's not crazy in the context of East Village. The architecture is pretty…
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Well that's interesting, you'd think there's some sort of reason this hasn't been applied with Lansing Township, be it later laws on the books or case law, but who knows? I'd really, really like to hear a definitive answer on if this can apply to th…
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I was by it today, it's mostly at three floors, even that looks shorter than I would've expected. They do have part of the fourth floor up along Townsend though, even that looks somewhat short. They also have some of the parapet wall up and that see…
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They said they only approval they'd need from the city would be for a site plan. They're going for a competitive MSHDA loan (hence the mixed income), they said that the project in it's current form is contingent on that financing. I'm torn on s…
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I was at a neighborhood meeting for Cherry Hill this week and there's a developer proposing to build a 52 unit apartment building at the NE corner of Cherry St & St. Joe. The building is slated to be "mixed income," with 20% market rate and 80% …
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Well, it's not going to be pretty but it won't be trash either. It will still be good to see a sizable market-rate apartment building on that end of downtown. Board and batten is a common name for a siding style with vertical boards. When they…
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I've been by there also and I'm impressed with the look the new windows give it. I really had my doubts about this one but I think it's going to turn out ok, maybe even better than ok.
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That is odd that the north half is zoned for higher density, I guess that gives any potential developer a lot of options for what they could build. And I agree that the apartment buildings will likely look better in real life than in the rende…