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Oh, I was talking specifically about parking lots.
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Hmmm, so they are only doing a short-term lease (14 months, max, with a clause that allows termination of the lease if students aren't back this year), and the pandemic may make it so that parking isn't profitable. This is a good sign for developme…
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You are right; these are more than I thought there were. About the lot behind Peanut Barrel, looking at city property maps, it looks like the city owns the small part of the lot at the corner Albert and Bailey. You are saying they lease the rest o…
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This months planning board meeting next month doesn't have much on it. Namely, Sparrow is requesting the city vacate Jerome between Penn and Holmes and Holmes between Jerome and Michigan. The city is conditioning this on maintenancing various perm…
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I think one of the worst things the city ever did was essentially pushing office space out to the outskirts when they adopted zoning. It's certainly not impossible, but between a geographically small downtown, and the difficulty in buying up indivi…
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Looks like the MSUFCU has formally submitted plans to the city for this building. It will be 7-stories at 105 feet with 87,822 sq ft, with the first floor including an MSUFCU branch and leasable comercial space, the second floor including a communi…
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Update on the 496 project from MDOT's local office:
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GB, Went to the River Trail's website, and the construction you're seeing is bank and soil stabilization projects paid for by the regional parks millage. The projects include: * Land on the south bank and west of Washington Avenue. (completed …
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The Michigan Strategic Fund awarded some funds for community revitalization, today, in the face of COVID-19. Two Lansing projects that got them are the Temple Building redevelopment in Old Town, and the Allen Neighborhood Center expansion.
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To be clear, I'd personally not even consider paying those rents for the location for this quality of building, though I was surprised to find it had wood(-type?) floors. That said, this is like a cookie-cutter building you see going up by the doze…
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This one's now opened: Metro Place Apartments, a newly opened mixed-use development owned by Lawton Group first announced back in 2017, is officially open for business. Marketed primarily as upscale living for young professionals, it replaced the …
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Finally got down to MLK and Holmes yesterday, and saw the redo of the old Colonial bar into Gage Cannabis Co. It was really busy and it was nice to see this corner cleaned up if even I wished they've have redeveloped the site. Also, Skymint's seco…
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Looks like the old building at the northeast corner of Washington and Saginaw has finally been taken down as work continues on the Realtors HQ site.
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Those are all great ideas. There is so much wasted space west of their plant and it's a really bad look for those coming into and leaving Lansing on 496 from MLK.
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I can't imagine myself voting for him, again, for a whole host of reasons, his response to this whole situation being only one of them. Kind of thought having someone who appeared Bernero's polar opposite would be a nice change. But I've just hear…
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I imagine COVID-19 stopped a lot of work by the Parks & Rec and Public Service (who does city forestry) early in the crisis. I've noticed that the city and MDOT are behind on mowing. Unfortunately, without the regular tax revenue coming in, we…
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Speaking of GM Lansing Grand River, a big help all around their property would be reducing the size of their parking and product storage lots. There was some talk maybe five years ago or so taking out some of the parking on the west side of their p…
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It's weird how often the banks fail along this specific part of the trail. It seems like they are having to repair the embankments every other year.
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We were talking about this in the general thread, but I thought it was even more appropriate, here. I passed Marshall Park this afternoon, and in addition to the streets they were planting in the treelawn along Saginaw, there were folks out plantin…