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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…
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That seems particularly expensive for the somewhat out of the way location and mediocre quality of the building, I'd like to see what that unit looks like. I continue to be disappointed in this project overall, it's an example of what I don't want t…
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I certainly wouldn't vote for him again but I don't see anyone on the local political scene that I'd like to see in the position either. My political views are complex, a heap civil libertarianism, a decent bit of economic conservatism and a good am…
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Random question: Are any serious people behind the push to remove the mayor? I'm not a fan of Schor for his lackadaisical attitude and somewhat weak leadership but I hardly think that makes for grounds to push for resignation, I don't think any of t…
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@MichMatters I considered going to one of those meetings, I wish I had. I thought it was discussed on here but I can't find it. I've always wanted to see Reutter Park become a well maintained formal park, there's many beautifully maintained examples…
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@MichMatters I'm glad there's no ramp going there but if it remains a surface lot for decades then I'd rather have had the ramp. I can't imagine LCC using all the land they currently own anytime in the foreseeable future, I'd really like to see them…
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That's "The Citadel", there's renderings and info in the Park Place West thread.
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Yeah, I think there's a lot more work that could be getting done right now with minimal risk of increasing the rate of the virus' spread, if we have to go through this again in the fall they should have a much better idea as to which measures are ne…
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Yeah, this will no doubt be a rough patch. I'm betting there will be a pretty strong boom when the smoke settles from all this though, the economy had remained surprising stable before this and now there will be stimulus money and low interest rates…
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@Jared Thanks for looking into that, sucks it doesn't have anything built in. @gbinlansing I agree on the design, and it really doesn't take more than a box with good quality windows and authentic facade materials to make a nice building. If this…
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Ah, good point. The whole coronavirus thing is barely getting started so if they're going to totally wait it out it's gonna be quite a while.
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Good to hear. Any idea what the path forward is on this? It sounds like the kind of thing that will move very quick once MSUFCU owns the land.
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Agreed. This turned out really good and I didn't even think they could make this building look decent at all. @Jared The more I look at the Metro Place apartments the more I realize even an abandoned YMCA building isn't that bad. I hope the apart…
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I always appreciate hearing about little things also. I always liked the furthest south building on that block of Hosmer, I think it could make for a cool space. @Jared Does this forum software have a "like" function at all? I always found that…
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I'm glad to see the planning board pushing LCC to put commercial space on the ground floor of their ramp, that would make it palatable for me. I've always liked the idea of LCC building some housing or partnering with someone to do so and I like the…
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It's just so easy to use a car in Lansing, I'd never consider using mass transit here unless I had to. To me the solution is density. With increased density will come increased mass transit use, but without the density it's hard to justify a much mo…