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I assume the easement must mean that they are going to punch windows into the blank northern facade. I've never even thought about the south end of this block because it's an active parking lot owned by BCBS, and it's never been mentioned in discus…
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Interesting find in a planning commission meeting. The city is requesting a "visibility eastement" on the small parcel immediately north of the Masonic Temple so that the Bojis won't develop it. It's only 54 feet wide and 165 feet deep. It's current…
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Looks like we're nearing an end to the drain project portion of this development. Drain commissioner website is saying they are installing new sewers under west-bound Michigan Avenue and part of Homer Street between Michigan and just north of Vine, …
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A great example of what can be done to a property like this is the Plainwell City Hall in southwest Michigan. It was the old Plainwell Paper Mill. Even the old warehouse/factory at the east end of South Street here in Lansing is a good ex…
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I'm going to read this, but I'm kind of worried this is the same-old/same-old. He's saying he's building these for 20-somethings and that he's making them "affordable", but... Hepler said his target audience is 20-somethings. To encourage them t…
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The Pointe West Condos across from St. Lawrence are looking nice, probably a bit better than the actual rendering. Pointe West is the 5 attached units on three former detached single-family home lots on West Saginaw in between Bartlett and Carey. Mo…
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Which is funny, since all of the development is taking place in the 4th Ward, But Kost seems to be super-involved in constituent services relative to the other ward councillers, so it makes sense knowing that. lol Thanks for the heads-up.
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I'm still confused about what council approval is needed for the tower, or would it just be the brownfield (and maybe the garage over the street if that's still in the works)? There won't need to be any rezonings or anything. Glad to hear of updates…
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Signage has been put up, and it's nice. There are vertical signs on the northeast corner of the senior building at Larch and Erie, and one on the southwest corner of the 'workforce' building on Cedar with nice, clean fonts. They are marquee-like.
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My understanding of the Consumer's service center on Willow is that the ground is too polluted for any kind of residential usage and no one is going to put in the money to clean it to that degree, so it'd have to remain industrial or rezoned to inst…
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Of all the things she could have legitimately hit us on - and she hit a few - here basically saying there is no good Mexican food in town is probably the silliest of all. We generally do food pretty well for such a small city; it's one of our strong…
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I'm still confused about this mix, but this would still be substantially better than the vacant lots at the location currently. That said, I'm still disappointed in som of the conditions placed on the development, which just seem totally arbitrary a…
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Nice!
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https://twitter.com/LSJNews/status/1728943229201002572 Genuinely confused if this is a legit excuse, or something they are using to procrastinate. As far as I know, whatever the redefinition of the floodplain, the actuall "floodway" will contin…
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The Penn stuff is apparently under an existing NEZ.
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A new Neighborhood Enterprise Zone (NEZ) is being proposed, and this one much larger than the previous iterations. It's to be called the "Wheel District" NEZ: NEZs reduces property taxes temporarily to induce housing development/redevelopment…
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From WKAR: Councilmember Noel Garcia Jr. expressed some concern that the decision would expand density downtown... Mayor Ron Bacon also voted against the proposal over parking concerns. But he maintained the city and private owners of th…
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The council blocked the plans over concerns for...parking. They were literally arguing that the parking lot is needed. In the middle of a downtown. In a college town. Broke my whole brain.
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Nope. The state still doesn't allow it. Ferndale has had it since the early 00's, and East Lansing passed earlier this month, too. None of this can go into effect until state law allows them to.
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I wouldn't even call these plans; we're at the very beginning of this. What is being shown is a concept, at best. It really does leave questions as to who they've talked to in the state on this. But like you said, that they've conceived this would i…