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East Lansing Info is reporting that the city's lease for the parking lot (Lot 11) behind Beggars Banquet is set to expire in 2020 (a 5 year lease with 3 renewals built in). The owner of the property is the Metzger family, and they could decide to de…
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This thread goes back to April 2008, and before then there were rumors of a big building coming (though this eventually got reduced in size). I'm still sad to see this large building being replaced by a smaller building but the increased population …
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Demolition of the YMCA has started and is expected to take 8 weeks: https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2018/10/15/demolition-downtown-ymca/1646642002/ The article doesn't say when construction might start on the building. Given that …
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The Ann Arbor to Traverse City line doesn't make any sense to me when we should be pushing for a Detroit-Ann Arbor-Lansing-Grand Rapids line first. Until we can connect our major metropolitan areas then we shouldn't be trying to plan a much longer r…
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Yeah I wish the developer used the presence of the river to the site's benefit. It might be really nice to have a back porch overlooking the river in the middle of the city. That could fetch higher rent than a parking lot.
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Indeed those were beautiful buildings and could have been a real source of pride for the city. They could have made for beautiful law office or any other type of business even if the city built City Hall at another location. Similar to the Grand …
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Speaking of the post office, I saw on EastLansingInfo today that the post office location in the MSU Union is closing. People will be redirected to the East Lansing branch at Abbot Road and Saginaw.
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Yeah this layout looks really awkward to me. I do expect that they will ask for city money to pay for changes to the stadium, of which I hope they're denied. Public money should stop going towards professional sports.
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I think you've interpreted that ordinance in the wrong direction. 700 members, if half can fit would be 350. But the ordinance says "one for every three seats in the pew" so that would be close to 116 parking spaces, not 1000+.
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Wow this is very insightful. I didn't know about all of these different data points. Thanks for sharing these when you come across them
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Yeah, there are honestly tons of surface lots that could be bought for the right price. People only propose deals that benefit themselves, not the others. The city would be getting the short end of the stick here and honestly a little inconvenience …
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Yeah the mayor is out of the country I believe. This article has more information, https://eastlansinginfo.org/content/draheim-says-council-members-pulled-bait-and-switch-leaves-absence
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The city council is also operating on a skeleton crew with only three regular attendees and they need votes of at least three in the affirmative to pass anything so each member has a veto now. If Ruth Beier manages to attend (she's taking night clas…
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Looks like a basketball court except they put a cutout of the state on the wall instead of a backboard. The high fences also lead to the basketball court. But the other circles could get confusing. The court reminds me of the Pigalle court in Par…
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Demolition of the YMCA should start in a few weeks according to a new article from the LSJ. Demolition is expected to take 8 weeks. They said that a new sanitary sewer line must be built before demolition but that the developers sent out a two-we…
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I didn't expect the east side of the building to have those angled wedges. I wonder why they did this as I would assume it costs more and definitely reduces square footage.
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Thanks for the screenshots. Yeah the building will be much larger than what is currently there as the power plant portion is only about 1/3 or less of the final building.
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At the Atlantic Terminal in Brookyn, the Target store is two stories and there are escalators to go between each floor. A separate escalator next to the human one grabs a hold of your cart and brings it along side of you.
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Aside from Gillespie's projects, yeah I agree a two story deck that connects to the building on both floors would probably make most people happy and comfortable enough as compared to a surface lot.
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I thought from the press conference they had mentioned that Liskeys would be moving, but I wonder why your bottom rendering includes their building and their separate parking lot?