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Yes, this is great news. Great to hear about a company that was not downtown relocating to downtown. I wish TechSmith would relocate to downtown Lansing. Between Dewpoint, TechSmith, and Spartan Internet Consulting, you could have a small IT hub in …
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Sorry, I didn't want to discourage discussion. I just wanted to make it easier for people to look up old discussions in the future.
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With no inside knowledge, I think there will be a project announced for the frontage of Frandor Plus, including the current National City building. That building should be demolished when National City moves in to the new Midtown development on the …
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These recent posts have gotten pretty far off-topic from the Capital Club Tower's original thread. I'm going to try to circle it back and redirect to the proper thread, so I'll post my reply in the General East Lansing discussion thread since that i…
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As much as I'd like to see a high rise go up, I'd rather see more infill throughout downtown first. This way we can have proper distribution of retail+entertainment/office/residential throughout instead of several anchor points. I think the State…
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Yeah, we were talking about it back in August 2005. Some of the most expensive real estate in East Lansing has sat vacant for almost 10 years now. It's also quite the eyesore. I don't know why the city was so quick to condemn Cedar Village and try t…
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What would people think about converting the Grand Ave parking structure in to a mix of apartments + parking. If you split the parking ramp in half lenghtwise, the river-side half could be converted to apartments and the streetside could remain park…
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The whole NIMBY argument here is so out of whack with the market. You only have to drive to the edges of East Lansing to see that the demand is not being let in to the city. The people fighting against this development are going to make developers l…
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My gripe about the Biggby curb cut aside, I do really wish that this gets built though :-) This will fit nice with the Gumby's Goomba's Pizza building across the street.
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It's a shame that Biggby is asking for a separate drive-thru here. The current location has done well without one, and we should be pushing for less curb cuts on Grand River.
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I don't have much hope for the casino, but a skybridge is the wrong solution. Basically, by building a skybridge the city is admitting that pedestrian crossings on Cedar St are really dangerous. However, the only people that would be able to cross i…
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Nothing that I can find about the Showroom Shine development, although I did find this news listing from mid-March about a rezoning of that area: http://statenews.com/article/2014/03/city-could-consider-ordinance-that-grants-grand-river-development…
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A bus down Saginaw would be immensely useful. Although due to the speed of traffic, CATA would have to do cut-outs for the bus to stop in. There are sections where the right-of-way may be too small for cut-outs. I'm not sure what should be recommend…
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Yeah, I'm surprised this wasn't pushed forward long ago. Although I do think it would be nice if they could preserve the Biggby location since it is the original location for what is now a very large chain of coffee shops and also it's unique archit…
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The Baskin Robbins there has it's own unique story. I remember it was located in a section of the mall that jutted out in to the parking lot. This section was removed when the mall was remodeled, and the Baskin Robbins moved to be located next to Me…
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Weird that Oldsmobile Park was still designated as light industrial.
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Yeah, I think eminent domain here is actually in the right direction. Years back the city took the odd step of condemning the Cedar Village area as part of their East Village plan. That condemnation was absurd, whereas these buildings are actually o…
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Nothing really new, but DTN is now saying that it is going to try to proceed without the Strathmore-owned properties. I'm starting to doubt that DTN will actually start any work on this project. http://statenews.com/article/2014/04/park-district
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Of those projects, I'm most excited about Moores River Drive and I96 as they should both improve safety.
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If I had control (and the money!) to determine what happened next with the Walter Neller property, I'd probably build something midsize (4-6) stories there. Mixed use with office and residential on the upper floors and retail on the ground floor. Al…