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Actually Demonstration Hall got renovated about 5 years ago and is now the home for the MSU Marching Band which practices from inside of the building at times. If you walk by the north side of the building, make sure to peek in the windows and you'l…
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The City of East Lansing is considering selling the small park at the corner of the Abbot and Albert Streets to the developer of the Park District. This will need to go before a vote from the city's population first though. http://statenews.com/art…
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Video of the planning commission meeting for the showroom shine project is online. The building was initially constructed with the plans to support three more floors on top of the detailing portion. They will use metal for the construction so they c…
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I found some renderings of the Showroom Shine development. They were in the packet from the East Lansing planning commission meeting on the 11th. http://screencast.com/t/XuXRvxV1dCYQ http://screencast.com/t/69pJgFGrSsC http://screencast.com…
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I remember that plot of land before it was Brentwood. There used to be a house on the land that had a sizable yard (the lot was the full size of the Brentwood development). The property backed up to a dirt pathway that connected Pin Oak Lane and Eas…
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Last I remember they had around 200 employees. They take up a good chunk of the office park at the corner of Okemos and Jolly Rd.
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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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I think you make a very good point here. Meridian Township, with their behavior, act somewhat to stop developments from leaving Lansing/East Lansing. At the same time, they close their eyes on their own problems. This being a downtown (at the inters…
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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…