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  • I think that's a fair point and a reasonable expectation. The more the student/non-student populations can start to live together, the better for the city and region. Right now there is still a pretty strong divide (at least in East Lansing) between…
  • Why should this project keep undergrads away? It's one of the best locations for them. I would much rather see undergrads living in the Red Cedar development than in Chandlers Crossings our out by Jolly and Dunckel.
  • So this is how I remember their proposal (off the top of my head, I could be wrong): They wanted to build where the lots are, and put a parking ramp where the houses are. This needed the city to sell them the parking lot so they could build on it…
  • After thinking about it more, the Capitol Club Tower did benefit from the parking ramp located next door, but a building could also have below-ground parking or a few above ground floors of parking built-in to it (see Stonehouse Village 2). Yeah,…
  • A similar proposal will definitely go to voters during the next cycle. But I don't necessarily think the voters were wrong. Many of the people in East Lansing have watched as the city-initiated projects have failed and don't want to keep piling o…
  • The proposal for the city to sell the parking lots to DTN failed at the vote yesterday. DTN has said that they won't be able to do the project without the city's property, but I think they need to be a bit more creative here. Potentially scale down …
  • I took some pictures of the demolition last week on Wednesday night. It was dark out, but hopefully you can still see the progress as well as the amount of construction equipment on site. http://imgur.com/a/BMp7x
  • Yeah, it's hard for me to see $1.6 million creating a "temporary" terminal. Seems like enough money to put in a building that can maybe be part of the large plan? What makes this terminal different than most is that Michigan Flyer usually only has o…
  • The Michigan Flyer is trying to move forward with building a terminal on their lot that they own at the corner of Michigan Ave and US-127 (the old Bud Kouts used car lot). They ideally would want to put a hotel and/or coffee shop there to go along w…
  • The State News is reporting that the little cottage-style apartments at the corner of Gunson and Beech are going to be torn down to be replaced by five 3-story apartment buildings. The buildings will have parking on the ground floor with apartments …
  • I don't really like that the entrance will go on one of the less visible sides of the building but I guess there must be some logic to it. I guess I'm not too sure. Looking at an aerial view of the building, it seems that all sides are pretty s…
  • I had been planning to upload that photo too I think that will be on the Munn Field side.
  • For the Element 903 building, I didn't realize that it would have a significant 2nd floor patio/green space. Nice to see that built in to the building
  • Wow, Hulett Road is really far from central campus. It seems like this center will not have a commercial side, but it still would have been nice for MSU to put these jobs closer to the central campus or downtown East Lansing (since it sounds like th…
  • The lawsuits from Lansing Township and the owners of Frandor have been thrown out again, on the same grounds that they were thrown out in July. East Lansing agreed to drop their lawsuit before it could get thrown out. http://www.lansingstatejourn…
  • The LSJ posted an article giving an update on the hotels at Eastwood: Eastwood hotels on track for 2015 openings Hyatt Place: The $15 million, 128-room hotel from Chicago's Hyatt Hotels Corp. should be open by April 2015, said Kent Gregory, one of…
  • A new plan will be presented tonight to the East Lansing Planning Commission: East Lansing's Park District on the table tonight Park District Investment Group LLC, the project's developer, wants to tear down the former Citizens Bank building at 10…
  • Developer seeks more tax money for Trowbridge project Dropping from five to four floors for the apartment building has put the project in a financial tight spot, and there also appear to be some miscalculations about expected tax costs. The devel…
  • Thanks, yeah I enjoyed it too. Thanks for coming out.
  • I'll be heading there shortly. I'm wearing a black hoodie with "Firefox" on the front.