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Yeah, we talked about this in the General Lansing Development thread a few months ago. GB even brought up at an LSJ article spoke of a March demolition. I'm not sure what has happened, but it's just good to see New Vision finally happening.
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I see that a permit for foundation construction was pulled on March 3rd for Tower on Grand, so this is definitely officially a go. The permit talks of a 27-floor tower and a WLNS article said it will be 320 feet tall. There was also a demolition per…
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They held the formal ground-breaking for these projects, today, and on the site of Tower on Grand: New Vision Lansing project, including 28-story skyscraper, breaks ground in Lansing LANSING — The dirt was carefully prepared, hidden from …
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Certainly, I can always do with less surface parking. But it fits in with the surrounding neighborhood, which is suburban. You're not going to build a new "downtown" off of Trowbridge; you wouldn't want to. This is far more dense than anything I exp…
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I'm so glad to see them reuse this space on campus. I'd worried they were going to leave this area "greenspace" and sprawl their development, so I'm pleasantly surprised. It looks like they really want to bring up the Harrison corridor as another ax…
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Had not even heard of this one. Wow. Pretty nice siting. I'm not sure I understand the ground lease and all of that. Would that be for the whole site or part of it? I don't understand why they wouldn't just be co-developer with whoever they partner …
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The township board approved the site plan for the ALDI. The chain is not providing any information about construction, but the township planning director expects it to be built this year. At 20,600 square feet, this will be a bit larger than the 17,…
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Not much new going on. Looks like they are well into grading and preparing the foundation for Riverview 220. The part of the site fronting Cherry has been raised a bit to bring it more in line with the elevation of Grand, which gets it out of the fl…
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BTW, just found that the city has a map of local, state and federal registers on their website: https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/2fbd3892-820b-4b83-8e7a-f6be6e80bb96
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Chimneys are from 1981; there isn't much reason to save anything beyond the original building. But the original buildings is certainly in danger given that very few people in leadership of anything have any vision, anymore.
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Sexton was the first one that came to my mind, today, watching all of this. Fortunately, I think all of the school buildings are zoned "Reuse Adpative" so that'd be at least one obstacles any new owners would have to jump over. Eastern should have b…
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Sad to say that the developer is demolishing this for another Starbucks. BTW, this is in Okemos in Meridian Township. East Lansing city limits along Grand River start just a few feet west of Northwind Drive/Shell gas station.
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He was a "love him or hate him"-type of guy, but I didn't really mind Virg, tbh. I sometimes had disagreements with his style and sometimes his policies, and sometimes major disagreements. But what I appreciated about him is that you never had to gu…
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There is nowhere for him to "fail up" to. He's already had damn-near every job in the region, already, short of state senator. And that seat's not opening up anytime soon. He might leave for the private sector, but it'd have to be for a very cushy j…
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From the article: She said the organization’s focus from the beginning has been on the other two properties and that the “house just came along” with them. Only when the need for a detention pond became clear did the Glaister House become a fact…
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While LCRM is doing this, I have no real problem with them, otherwise. Holy Cross? That's a whole other conversation. lol But, yeah, as usual, there is no need for this. It's weird, the organizations in our town in the early 00's used to value sa…
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I skimmed the article earlier, but the mayor's disinterest in the design comes through very strongly, and always has. His entire framing of a "city hall" is where "customers" come to do "one-stop" shopping, instead of a city hall being a place where…
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LSJ reporting, tonight, that LaFontaine Ford is going to build a Mitsubishi dealership at their current used car location at Cedar and Jolly. I think it'll be in addition to it. Hopefully, they'll update their exist property on that corner.
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Miller is not some local or neighborhood stretch, but literally connects one side of the city to the other. And the building is setback far enough and is not a solid vertical face. If you can't build stuff like this in a literal industrial zone beca…
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That old commercial property is being totally rebuilt, but it's been like that for years, now. Maybe one day they'll actually finish it. lol I know part of it used to be an old ugly dollar store with vinyl-looking siding. I think the other unit may …