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So, the AA-to-Traverse City is priority not because of what you said, but rather because it's where the state actually owns the actual rails. A lot of us have been pushing our legislators to at least study how much it'd cost to buy the CSX Plymouth …
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https://x.com/LSJNews/status/1868853648605782049
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Council agenda for next week has over a dozen make-safe-or-demolish of demolish orders on it for dilapidated buildings. I remembe reading in the Pulse some weeks back that they've streamlined the process to make it go more quickly, so perhaps the ma…
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It's one project. The Monroe Street reconfiguration will keep some parking.
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No, there is parking. And, no, this isn't really like the mall because it's reversible to allow in emergency vehicles and/or different programming for different times of day. I don't think there'd be anymore pushback here against it than it was in D…
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Yeah, Detroit is about to do something similar to what you described with state funding for Monroe Street: It just takes local vision. In this case, the Greektown Neighborhood Partnership came up with the idea to put this out for prop…
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It's a proposal in the lameduck legislature to expand the "tax capture" district downtown. We'll see if it gets through. But I'm not particularly supportive of it, since it would steer more money away from the school district. They say the district …
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Looking like a lot of loose end approvals getting tied up on the 16th at city council concerning the ADU ordinance and the amendments to the zoning code. I think New Vision Lansing's stuff, too? We'll finally have all of that out the way.
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Looks like the public hearing for this is next Monday. I think there is one more council meeting left on the 16th, which I think means everything should be approved by then to end the year.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/michigan-avenue-construction-pause-bringing-relief-to-businesses/ar-AA1uS49Z
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Don't see any demolition permits filed, yet. But, yeah, it doesn't sound like they've at all been receptive to anything the advocates for the old school building have had to say, so I wouldn't be surprised if they are prepping for demolition. I s…
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While driving around I noticed crews cutting down all the trees on the SW corner of Oakland and Cedar, is this area part of the housing going up near Motor Wheel Lofts? No. As far as I can tell, this was just clean-up of part of the site afte…
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Looks like Windsor Township approved the final site plan for Consumers Energy's new service center at Billwood and Canal. It will be nearly 94,000 sq ft, about 22,000 sq ft of which will intitially be unbuilt but added as needed. The facility on Wil…
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I didn't read any hints in that story, and nothing we haven't talked about here or in the media (i.e. the city hall proposal). If something was planned, the city wouldn't be tearing down the building for them; they'd be doing it themselves. As I rea…
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Was looking through property records, and it looks like the Baryames sold their commercial property at the southeast corner of Grand and Kalamazoo to the housing commission, so that gives the entire block over to them for Riverview 220. This gives t…
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Parks millage - like a lot of city millages - isn't really for capital projects, but rather to help with maintenance. It was put in place after the Great Recession when a lot of revenue sharing to the municipalities was cut.
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Nothing much in next week's council agenda. It looks like all of the New Vision Lansing's approvals for their brownfield plan should be completed by early-to-mid December. In other news, our 5-year city parks millage is back up next year, so they ha…
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Local media is reporting that the Lansing Brownfield Redevelopment Authority approved the plans for New Vision Lansing, and that they will now go to council for a final vote on December 2nd.
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Looks like Gary went to both. Family must have moved his senior year or something. I've known members of the family as acquaintences, at least.
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Honestly, I'm not sure how the demolition process works. I can't really find anything clearly showing the process, though reading the resolution, this appears as if it's near the end of the process. The demolition board recently made a change to its…