ratchetwrench
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Agreed - do what you have to and thanks for hosting this site! I personally never click on ads. However, if you choose to adopt a membership model or need donations, I'm happy to contribute.
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Jared - My guess would be that they don't want students congregating in large numbers anywhere in the downtown area. My hope in the long run is for EL to convert Albert to busses, bikes and emergency/delivery vehicles only at some point in the futu…
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I saw that. I, for one, am really excited that the EL city council is now made up of a younger group of individuals with strong levels of community involvement. Although Woods, Altmann, Beier, Meadows gave the appearance of community involvement, …
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Offhand, I think the dealership site is probably about as far from campus as the dispensery that is under construction on the east side of East Lansing. I agree that would be a huge waste of space for a dispensery... I would have to think a muliti-m…
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Sounds good to me. My fear was that it was going to become a commuter lot by default, and slowly fall apart until the owner got a hot offer on the site.
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Wow... I was driving by the Red Cedar site and happened to see that the old pontiac dealership has been knocked down! I haven't seen any recent info on development of this site. Last I heard, the owners put in an unsuccessful bid to open a recreat…
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Thanks for the info everyone!
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Also while riding around town recently, I noticed that all of the numerous Vision auto repair locations are getting new branding as "Gerber" auto repair. Anyone know if this is a rebranding event, or did the franchise get sold?
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Mich - I would guess a MJ growing facility. Last time I was through that area, all of the older industrial/warehouse buildings on that side of the road were getting blocked up, perhaps for security purposes.
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Yeah, they're really moving quickly on this project. I always wished they'd incorporate some better decorative elements, particularly as 496 runs through Lansing proper. Like maybe a 3-6' retaining wall along this section to better separate the gr…
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As an East Lansing resident, yesterday's news on the firing of Yeadon and the resignations of Meadows and Beier was nothing short of Christmas in July1!!! Yeadon, in my opinion, is a incompetent slimeball who was wasted hundreds of thousands (millio…
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I agree Mich - when done right brutalism can be interesting. But unfortunately the vast majority of brutalist structures are cheap, ugly fortresses drained entirely of any spirit.
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That's not a bad idea - there is a ton of vacant commercial space across the bridge near the Saginaw/ Center st. intersection that would be perfect for that. I could see some sort of public-private partnership to provide low cost apartments/townhou…
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Yeah, brutilism stinks!!!
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While I support the idea of reducing car traffic for an urban campus, I think upping parking rates that would interfere with the core mission of LCC, which is to provide low-barrier education to the community. I'm guessing that a large portion of t…
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Yeah, QD is a bit perplexing. On one hand, they are sprucing up some stores (like the one in Holt) and bringing their retail model up to date, but broadly their properties are really outdated (and dilapidated...), and don't seem to offer much more …
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I think campus routes are effectively free for anyone these days - most of the time when I board one of those buses the deposit box is under a cover with "free rides" or something like that printed on it. It is odd that MSU doesn't provide system-w…
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Just think of what this area will look like in 5+ years, once the DDA properties get upsized... and if the Delta area and the underutilized parcels between the Hopcat building and the DDA properties finally get developed, this area could end up look…
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gbd - I expect beyond just the size of the Greater Lansing area, from a development perspective it helps that the GLA checks a lot of boxes in terms of having large insurance, government, health care and educational institutions. Plus being a capito…
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Very glad to hear that vast, horrible Kmart parking lot will be dealt with. I hate huge surface parking lots for numerous reasons. I am a big fan of the idea of penalizing/incentivizing property owners to tear out excess, unused black top!!!