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Local media announcing that the mayor will show off designs for the new city hall, tonight. A reminder that this site is an acre and the current city hall sits on about 0.7 acres, so not a major different in size; just the size of the sites would me…
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Photo from WILX: Very telling that they've been discussing this for years, and they haven't even released a preliminary rendering of site plan of what they propose to put here.
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I'm not exactly sure why it's not shown in this rendering, but the berm in front of the redone Marathon at Saginaw and Abbot won't be touched, because MDOT actually owns the triangle-shaped piece of land at the corner. There will also be a screening…
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It was exactly as I feared. The City Pulse made it clear recently that the actual facility would even stand in the footprint of the existing building. So, indeed, this is being torn down for parking and a green "buffer." This is exactly why I oppose…
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It's actually pretty common. Railroads typically hang onto abandoned railway lines in case new customers come up somewhere along the line in the future. It's kind of delusional given mode shifts, but that's what their reasoning is. I'm not clear on …
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Maybe I wasn't clear. The highlighted lots are owned by the railroad. Again, what this does, functionally, is make it so that the city doesn't have to deal legally with the railroad, anymore, particularly where the old ROW runs directly through the …
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It was vacated railroad right-of-ways, so it has effectively been greenspace for years. It could just be that the city finally got an opportunity to buy it. Or, like you said, maybe they have some more pathways planned, but now it means they don't h…
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I'd always wanted to see these parcels saved for some kind of transit lane (bus or streetcar) since it's a direct, non-street connection between Old Town and Downtown. Anyway, the city applied for, and won, a state grant to buy these four parcels to…
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Reading in the LSJ that Aldi's is planning a store in the township on Lake Lansing near Wood Road. Most particularly, right across from the new Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurant and next door to Asbury United Methodist Church. People who go by h…
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The flood zone kind of cuts diagonally across the area bound by Clemens on the west and Michigan-ish on the north. It really shows how if water gets in through the Kalamazoo Street opening in the freeway, how hard it is to get out since all the natu…
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WLNS reported that the Washington Apartments down in REO Town was added to the National Register of Historic Places, last year. The National Park Service program's desgination can open up federal grants and tax credits for helping preserve th…
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Ah, thanks. With Urbandale, it's actually understandable to leave it as is. I suspect with climate change increasing the chances for flooding, we're going to see that area flood a lot more like it did in 1975. It's why it's been city and landbank po…
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WLNS has some clearer renderings for Riverview and Grand Vista. Still bad, of course, but at least these don't make it look quite as bad.
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Yeah, I guess my point was that I'm kind of interested to see what law covers this just as a kind of academic exercize, because the laws and ordinances I've been referenced don't actually address building over streets. And, yeah, you know I'm in com…
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Yeah, citykid talked about an Act 33 review for Tower on Grand, before. Though, I still don't get how it would trigger that, or how the law is interpreted to require it: https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/55a2ef9b-e736-44f7-ba72-21effa45907…
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The LSJ story has the original rendering of Riverview, from what I can tell. Also, I just passed the site, today. Apparently, the story was published because it looks like they've already started demolition of the existing buildings on site. I hadn'…
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Looks like Riverview and Grand Vista Place in Cherry Hill have closed on all funding needed for these two buildings being developed by the Lansing Housing Commission & Chesapeake Community Advisors. I guess Cinnaire is just an investor. It looks…
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I posted this because this is where they are going to build the parking garage and amenity deck for Tower on Grand. You will be able to walk from the building entrance on Washington to over Grand Avenue to the tower. I'm still curious about how t…
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Was just looking through the mayor's proposed budget for FY25, and it looks like Lansing got a "historic" investment of $9.7 million from the state to invest in capitol projects for major streets, so that means a lot more "fixing the damn roads" thi…
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Slow start to the year in terms of council, commission and commission stuff. Only thing I've found of interest was some meeting minutes from one of these saying that some work has already begun in Michigan Building as part of Tower on Grand. I am ki…