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  • I see your point. I certainly agree that they need to move away from their social conservative ways. My politics lean towards being socially liberal/libertarian. As far as economic policies go I support tax rate cuts, which to many peoples surpris…
  • LMich - I definitely see your point but there's something about using absolutes like "never" that seem to grab my attention. My friends and I debate issues for the sport of it even if we don't agree with what we're arguing for to try and see other…
  • "I had already decided to never vote for a Republican" Why? Personally, I voted yes on all of the proposals, and i also voted for a mix of democrats, republicans and libertarians.
  • MSU's transit center is located in the middle of campus near Shaw and Farm Lane. Later on if a route ever went through campus down Shaw Lane from Harrison to Hagadorn it could tie into the transit center pretty easily, but I think that it would be t…
  • "Honestly, with this coming up and City Center II in the future (hopefully!), what is the city going to do about traffic?" light rail! i'm sure it's completely unrealistic, but can you imagine the effect that there would be on development and new b…
    in West Village Comment by jj October 2008
  • From what I hear the city is trying to get Abood to include ground floor retail on his Coleman Corners project. If the city forces him to have retail I wouldn't be surprised if it kills the project. Do we know if the residential will be rentals or f…
  • from what I hear there will be a new business announcing that it will be moving into that location within the next few months. also, in regards to phipps' comments about the status of the previous business owners, his quotes are completely inaccurat…
  • zaha hadid was announced as the winning architect this morning
  • from what i hear this project is "definitely" happening. i'm not sure if it will be the large overall plan that was originally proposed or something more scaled down, but i'm fairly certain that the main building on the corner of grand river and ab…
  • i went to pre-school in that building back in the day. somewhere about 20 feet to the right should be a hole i was digging to china...never quite made it :)
  • the items from the EL council agenda are about rezoning the properties where the new parking garage for the Michigan Museum/City Center 2 project is being built.
  • from what i heard they're supposed to be breaking ground on the second phase of townhomes in the next few weeks. as far as the bigger condo building with ground floor retail goes (corner of delta and grand river), i've heard that building design s…
    in West Village Comment by jj November 2007
  • when is this project supposed to be finished (inside renovation and outside improvements)?
  • any idea what might be going in there?
  • i remember hearing rumors a while back that majority might reopen in the hollister building...any word yet?
  • anything new about this project? is the city keeping things quiet while they're in negotiations or is this a dead project right now?
  • which building is the community center?
  • actually that picture is pretty old...there's some brick up now on almost half of the front of the building and i think it looks really good. i'd post a picture but i think i'm the only one alive that doesn't own a digital camera!