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I'm not sure about EL's ordinance's, zoning codes or the specifics of the development agreement but I'll get behind the city forcing this issue. The redesign is ugly, significantly impacts the look of the development, and it would have almost certai…
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It will be nice to finally have some public access to the Bear Lake area. It's a fairly big natural area in the middle of the city, 161 acres according to MSU's site. It's definitely impressive how established forests have become in just 100 year…
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I misread the second paragraph of your previous post. I thought you said that the mayor was having a study done to see if it would cost more to upgrade city hall than to move it.
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I'm way late on this but I'm very glad to hear Andy Schor is at least considering a renovation of the current city hall. To me if they can do a proper renovation/restoration on the city hall building for even close to the same cost as new constructi…
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I have to say looking at it completed this building is impressive for the cost. This is a better looking design than either of the Gillespie's recent projects and way more timeless. I wouldn't be unhappy to see more buildings like this until develop…
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Sorry I'm late, but regarding the Grandview Plaza building... I think only a small portion of that building is a historic building. Going by my memory of others comments the old building was only a 3 floor building that was added on top of and aroun…
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Speaking of CATA, a friend of mine works for there and mentioned that in a meeting they were talking about redesigning the CATA logo and possibly advertising on bus shelters and/or the exterior of the buses. He said they were talking about those new…
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Those comments by Breitler are pretty laughable. I liked this one: “If I build, I build. If I don’t, I don’t,” Breitler declared. “It won’t be the end of the world for me, but it will likely be the end of the world for the city of Lansing..." I'l…
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Bringing Coleman road under the freeway should do wonders to reduce traffic on Lake Lansing. Navigating that area during the day is painful, they should have done this sooner.
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I'm not a fan of wind farms, they pollute the landscape. I understand that they be necessary as a stop-gap measure to reduce co2 emissions in the short term but windmills and large solar farms are not a good solution for our energy needs as their ou…
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I really like the idea behind the improvements to Foster Park. It'll be great to see how it turns out, it looks like they have a good plan. The decorative wall along Kalamazoo and the plaza ought to really improve the view from the street and make t…
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@Lymon89 virtually the whole site is in a 100 year floodplain according to the maps. While certainly not ideal, I don't see why being in a 100 year floodplain would be much of a problem for a city market building though, there's relatively little of…
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@sabatoa The Atlas Forge building (now Premier Thermal Solutions aka PTS) is the building within that complex but just west of the train tracks. I had imagined the two floor buildings in that complex as a mix of commercial and apartments. I have a 3…
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@MichMatters Are there new renderings for this or is it still supposed to look like the rendering a few posts back?
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I'm really happy to see them reusing the Shaw power plant and the additions look nice. It's been crazy to see them go from announcing it saying the designs aren't finalized to starting construction in weeks.
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I like the idea for turning the current City Market building into a wintergarden, especially if it could be expanded a little. It's worth noting that a group at MSU has been trying for years to build a domed winter garden near Abram's Planetarium: S…
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This new proposal is about what I expected and I think it's my favorite proposal out of the long line of proposals I've seen for the site. I did like one of the Michigan Museum Place designs but I still wasn't a fan of a single monolithic building o…
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@ratchetwrench There's also been a couple of proposals by Lingg Brewer for the building next to the Wild Goose Inn. He had proposed remodeling the existing building and tearing down the white house on Division for a 3-4 floor addition. I'm not sure …
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@MichMatters I haven't been up that way since I posted that picture of the progress, now that you reminded me I really am curious to see how it's shaping up. As for the former superintendents house becoming a rehab center, I'm not 100% against it…
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Seeing this projected growth in Lansing is truly a great thing. I'll be very interested in the 2020 census results to see what the real numbers actually are. @MichMatters I hope you're right and we are all pleasantly surprised by better than expecte…