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Ah, got in contact with someone in the twp, and this makes more sense. The TIF is actually structured so that the TIF district doesn't get ALL revenue on the tax value increase. A TIF is usually structured where they get 100% of the taxable value in…
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Yeah, it's all quite confusing; like, I have no idea what a "20% pass-through" is, for one. I see the Lansing Mall gets $3 million for something, but I'm not sure what. But, yeah, it sounds like Saginaw eventually gets better streetscapes in parts.
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Delta Crossings is the new one on the north side of Saginaw just west of the freeway; Brookside is the land along Carrier Creek on the south side of Saginaw across from Carrabba's. But, the more I think of this, the more I wonder if they aren't usi…
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Was looking through the township boards agenda as it related to the 425 Agreement, and came across something else I'd missed. In February, the board approved the creation of the Saginaw Highway Corridor Improvement Act (CIA) as a way to use the new …
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Looks like Committee of the Whole just unanimously greenlit each of the GM-related issues on the agenda, so this should pass council tonight in the same fashion. Pretty big thing we landed, though it was always the point of the original 425 with the…
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It's in next week's council agenda. GM subsidiary requesting a Michigan Strategic Fund Renaissance Zone designation, and an Industrial Facilities Exemption, the latter of which exempts a company from personal (and/or real) property taxes for 1-to-1…
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Their concept in Detroit seems to work, but they just have a lot more people and money to work with in a big city. Detroit Shipping Company is a competent business model, I'm just not sure it fits with Lansing. What I do think some people are mis…
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https://twitter.com/MIStateCapitol/status/1462813623756083206
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It wasn't really anything behind the scenes; it was right out in the open. They had a fight over back-rent and healthcode violations; it played out publicly in the courts and Waterfront lost. And there were plans between that fight and the shufflebo…
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Interesting little renovation in the stadium district. Across from Holy Cross/VOA shelter, the old warehouse that has most recently housed Ellis Cleaning (and before that Inline Design) is being refurbished. I was suprised to find that there was an …
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I highly doubt it's going to be a tower; there would have been rumors about this since stuff leaks. Read through this month's Planning Board meeting (Oct 5th). It looks like the board held off on approving the sell of Lot 50 (Shiawassee and Pere …
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Yeah, saw the parking garage today, too. They are going more retro with it than I'd have imagined; the brick veneer is nearly identical to the old 60's-era buildings.
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The Michigan Realtors headquarters at Saginaw and Washington on Durant Park had its ribbon cutting, today.
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In tonight's city council packet an ordinance for a noise waver for the reconstruction of 496, next year, between the Grand River and Lansing Road (i.e. the downtown section of the freeway). What I was not aware of is that they are adding auxillary …
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Planning Board has been really missing over the summer; might have something to do with the change of the zoning code and people trying to figure it out. Anyway, this month is the first meeting of the board since June; the only two items of business…
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A larger scale, of course, but Lansing is not unfamiliar with two-waying one-way streets; we're doing a major turn-over right now. I think it will eventually happen; it's really about the will to do it and if it's even on the radar of the city gover…
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Very nice and interseting study done by urban planning students at MSU that the Saginaw Street corridor improvement authority is looking at. This is my old hood, so I really liked to see how others view the area. https://civicclerk.blob.core.wind…
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Lansing wins $2M in state funds for a performance hall TUESDAY, Sept. 21 — The Lansing area will receive $2 million in state funding to go toward a future performance hall as part of the coming year's state budget. The shot in state funding, wh…
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Yeah, it's really contrary to the zoned use of that land. It's oriented to its parking lot on one of main streets, so it will do nothing to activate the sidewalk out front. And the backhouse operations look to be facing another thoroughfare: Pennsyl…
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That they call this a 'tower' kind of amuses me, but they are building a new building along Jerome. They do say that like it's other tower, this one has the ability to grow 5 more stories when warranted. Sparrow unveils $800 million investmen…