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There's no good way, of course, because of the riverfront houses after Cambridge. It's just going to have to be a missing link.
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Public Service Department told me that someone of the path will be on infill and some on boardwalk. I'm so glad to hear it's not just a marked street-path.
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The city is giving notice of the extention of the River Trail between Frances Park and Cambridge. It's supposed to start the 7th and last through the end of the year. I haven't seen any renderings of it, and I'm curious of how they are going to engi…
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I was over this way yesterday during the localized downpour, and I was just really glad to see the new rain gardens in the various parking areas. The region is getting wetter with climate change, so I was glad to see that something being built to cl…
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Yes, they mentioned the return of campus service. Still, the heart of the system is Lansing riders, and I'll be interested to see how many years it's going to take for us to recover.
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Got the 2020/2021 CATA Community Report in the mail yesterday. Apparently, between October '19 to early March '20, CATA was on track to post record annual ridership. The initial COVID hit in March cut ridership 69% over February, and 60% compared to…
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Local media picked up the West Junior story: https://twitter.com/MattMillerWSYM/status/1430980619543134208 LANSING, Mich. — The downtown building that once housed Lansing's West Junior High could become a low-income senior apartment complex…
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Wow, quite a difference they did with the former Lake Trust Headquarters. However, I vaguely remember the residential building renderings. BTW, apart from West Junior High, the other PILOTs are Walter French, Port Senior Apartments dow…
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Looking at last nights council agenda. Lots of PILOTs (payment-in-lieu-of-taxes) have been making their way through the agenda, but I just noticed one I'd not noticed before. There are plans to convert the old school building behind the LSD's admini…
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Yeah, the sheer size of the rooms and floors really doesn't lend itself to residential or hotel use, to be honest. I'm glad the Bojis think they can do something with it, but I think if they are thinking either of those uses, it's going to be a lot …
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Looks like the LSJ is saying the Bojis bought it, and are looking at making it into residences or a hotel. https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2021/08/20/boji-group-considering-residential-use-former-masonic-temple-building-downt…
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The rain gardens in and around Frandor are starting to take shape as the concrete is poured to define their edges. There is a particularly large swale they've formed on the northside of Vine Street between Homer & Clippert. They took some of the…
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https://twitter.com/MattMillerWSYM/status/1428359308991897609 Cooley is not saying who they sold it to, and the city hasn't updated their website to show the sell, yet.
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I think it's fairly common, but not very, very common and especially as political organizations have spent money in recent decades to make sure that students switch their voter registration to where they live most of the year: their dorm. And, reall…
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I still advocate my strategy to neuter Lansing Township: Do what we did in 2018 with the Jolly/Wavlery intersection annexation. It's unlikely we'd get many residents of the township to want to join Lansing, but you can take their commercial and indu…
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I've been under the impression that MSU was still in-person on the date of the Census (April 1), but apparently they were ordered closed on March 11. Did they reopen by the April 20th like they had planned? I don't know how I forgot this; I guess ev…
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Whatever was ultimately approved there doesn't look like the concept above. In any case, one that concept map up top it would be where the hotel is.
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More bad news to deliver. I was looking through the Lansing Township Planning Commission agendas, and it seems in June they considered a special use permit for 5 acres of the golf course site (right across from the nice homes fronting Saginaw) to be…
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I don't believe the Lansing or East Lansing numbers. For someone whose lived here since the 90's, the different between the 2000-2010 period and the 2010-2020 period is night and day. Just way too much construction and not having seen enough hemorra…
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The corner party/grocery store that's been under construction at the SW corner of MLK & Allegan for seemingly ever has finally gotten it's signage up. Looks nice for what it is. This section of MLK is definitely starved for nearby/walkable neigh…