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From the article: "Schor said all options are on the table, including selling the building and leasing its land." It looks to me like the City Market is being sold or leased to a developer, if the city were smart it would put out a request for pr…
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I'm not sure if they've poured any of the concrete but I think they've at least drilled all/most of the pilings, they've had the drilling rig taken down for at least a week or two now.
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Progress has been moving fairly quickly on this building. The site is fully excavated, some of the footings look complete, a tower crane was put up last week and it looks like there's a base for a second tower crane that I'd expect to be put up anyt…
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@MichMatters I've been wondering that myself. I think you brought up that property recently, didn't you? I think you had looked it up and noticed it was still owned by the state, or am I thinking of something else?
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I agree that just about all hope is lost for the market in its current form and at its location, I've thought that just about since I saw what they were building. There is still hope for a great City Market at a new location though, I think the size…
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This looks like it could actually be pretty helpful as an incentive for investment. It allows people who own a property for 10 years or more to pay no capital gains on appreciation and it if you invest assets that you currently owe capital gains on …
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East Lansing officials still seem confident that another proposal for Park District is imminent and I don't have any reason to doubt them. They've made it sound like Evergreen Ave may essentially stay in place making for at least two separate buildi…
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@sabatoa I had always thought that it would have been good to have those tracks be below grade, I never knew there was ever any official recognition of the idea. It would be massively expensive but it's still something that would be really nice to s…
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Yeah, the building does look larger than I thought. When I took this picture was the first time I'd been by the site since construction began, I'm going to try to remember to go by there in a couple months or so to see how the facade looks. Regardin…
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I agree with Jared that roads should have never fallen into the disrepair that they're in now, the fact that other states with similar climates can manage to have much better roads makes any excuses by Michigan's leaders hard to swallow. The situati…
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I was by this place a few days ago and grabbed a picture, they're pretty far along:
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I've never seen a picture of that building in the 100 south block, it would certainly be a nice one to still have around. If that facade does still exist under there it would be very nice to see it restored but I also doubt it's still under there si…
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It is weird and it will severely limit future growth if they don't allow downtown to expand north. I've complained about essentially the same thing in downtown Lansing, there's essentially one street with storefronts and that massively limits the wa…
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I'm still not a fan of these proposals. If it were up to me I'd renovate the current City Hall and have it remain as City Hall while finding a new location for the police department, possibly as part of a larger county complex. My favorite location …
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I've been in favor of burying utilities for awhile, it's something I've brought up from time to time here on the forum. I'm glad to see that other people agree that it's something worth looking into, I would really like to hear from the BWL what the…
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It's great to see that Gillespie is looking at a larger redevelopment for that corner. One thing I'd like to see is for him to build a street from Michigan to Barnard. If he owns the dispensary building he could just extend Pere Marquette across Mic…
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I expect that when Sears closes Gillespie will tear that building down and begin redeveloping the property and I'd bet that most or all of the new buildings that occupy that space will be multi floor and mixed use. I've said for awhile that I think …
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I like the sound of leaving Evergreen and breaking up the block, based on that I'd bet that I'll like the layout of the next proposal better than any of the previous ones over the years. I'm still not betting on this being a significantly downsized …
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I don't know how to feel about that Walter French news. The fact that Eyde chose to donate the building has me worried as to how feasible it will be to reuse. I suppose it is worth noting that the Eyde's don't seem too interested in residential proj…
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By all accounts I've read there's no sign of a recession or even an economic slowdown. It's true that we're "due" for a slowdown but the last recession was unusually severe, probably the worst economic downturn since the great depression, so we may …