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The Ampitheater has no funding, unless someone knows something I don't. The mayor's initial idea was to use proceeds from the sale of the city market to build the stage on the other side of the river. But that (quietly) changed when the proposal shi…
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The current main library building is owned by the Lansing School District. It's a holdover from the deal when CADL was formed: Local communities were to provide the buildings, while CADL was to provide the staffing and materials.
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The online version of the LSJ's story on Saturday includes a breakdown of each community's share of the millage. Unfortunately, the second table that was prepared wasn't included. That shows the breakdown of where the money is spent. That data is…
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It's important to point out that the downtown Capital City Books and Community Newscenter are owned by the same person. It's not a coincidence that they're both closing. Obviously the model they were running wasn't working in either the downtown …
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Odeena isn't the company Townsend is using on the Ottawa property or Kzoo Gateway. My understanding is Odeena was a partnership, and that partnership (which did Printer's Row) isn't doing the other projects. And given the national economic downtu…
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It's at the entrance to Capital City Airport, just off Grand River Avenue. Peckham already has a giant warehouse at the site and its adding onto that going north toward the airport. Depending on how you think of the city, you might call that the …
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The text of the mayor's speech. His only reference to an unannounced project: "Stay tuned for even more good news. Soon we will announce yet another major new development in the heart of our downtown."
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Suite level, according to the Lugnuts Web site.
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Alas, no Trader Joe's in East Lansing. See the LSJ story.
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It's important, too, to remember that the housing project over at Ottawa and Butler can be phased over a number of years. So unlike Gateway, which has to be built all at once, Gene Townsend can build it one small piece at a time over the next few ye…
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On the economy, we do still have some issues with losing lower-end manufacturing jobs and even some good auto jobs (as evidenced by the on-again-off-again third shift out at GM's Delta plant that will eventually cost several thousand people jobs by …
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The Lansing State Journal published a site map and there's a small head-on view of it at the LSJ's downtown project interactive map.
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This project now has a name: Capital Club Tower. A banner was put up this week on the Goodrich building (just south of the old City Club building, that will be part of the high-rise's footprint). The city council's development committee today mov…
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A replacementis supposed to be lifting up next Sunday.
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Here are the renderings you all want to see:
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The sewer issue has nothing to do with the site work at Eastwood. Eastwood is served by East Lansing sewers. The work, however, has stopped. I was told it was because of a dispute with the drain commissioner.
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I think the key word there is "may."
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The existing buildings in the flood plain area near Frandor were built at a different time, with different rules (either on the part of government - from the locals to the state DEQ - and insurance companies, which don't want to insure places that a…
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More on the dispute between Lansing Township and Lansing over sewers (and, further below, a look at a few other sewer disputes in the region): Fight for the pipes: City wary of tie-ins with Lansing Twp. growth It's a struggle over money, a gra…
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If I remember correctly, the only thing Campus Village and Riverwalk have at street-level is parking. Any living or commercial space is raised above flood level - which puts those spaces up in the air nearly a story from the street. Could there b…