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Honestly, I'm not sure how the demolition process works. I can't really find anything clearly showing the process, though reading the resolution, this appears as if it's near the end of the process. The demolition board recently made a change to its…
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Missed this at last night's city council meeting. The council had up a resolution to start the process of bringing down the old Walter Neller Building (built 1938) at the northwest corner of Grand and Allegan. Here's a picture I took of it years ago…
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Oh, the brownfield plan has information on everyone involved. Yes. Hobbs + Black designed this one, and the firm isn't that small. It has multiple locations; it's one of the more professional and capable firms we have in town. I've been checking the…
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BTW, if anyone can find out the height of Tower on Grand (to its highest point. i.e. elevation overrun, parapet, etc.), let us know. I've not seen a number given anywhere.
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Reading more of the brownfield plan, it seems the pedestrian bridge, while it'll add more connectivity to the east bank, is really just a front to allow utilities to cross the river to serve the property. lol Which, I'm totally all right with, becau…
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Hood was just talking about this in the New Vision thread, but I'm glad that they are looking to revamp the west riverfront area of downtown. Years ago, I took this picture of the boardwalk on this side. I was so sad to see them take this all out (a…
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Office space really makes sense that close to the capitol. They are going to get a lot of interest in it, I'm sure, for associations and such. I was a bit sad to see them chop a floor off of it, but they made it up with the additions to the project.…
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Big update. The Lansing Brownfield Redevelopment Authority has had plans submitted to it with some changes. The project will now include the renovation of the Ingham Building on Ottawa just east of the State House Office Building, and a 7-story buil…
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I honestly seriously doubt that. She just doesn't have any kind of urban agenda; it's just not something that crosses her mind or that she apparently cares about. And it be completely opposite what cities all over the state are doing - including Lan…
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Hey, what's the app where you report things like bad roads and such, again? Since they've switched Allegan and Ottawa to two-way, for those of us who rarely or never drove in the southern most lane of Allegan and have to, now, you notice that betwee…
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I heard from a little birdy that apparently the ONLY obstacle to studying consolidating or trimming down surface parking in the Capitol Complex is Whitmer, which kind of blew my mind, since she would know bettert than others in government about this…
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There's also this map from the city showing all existing non-motorized trails and such + proposed ones. I'd like to see something cleaner or that more clearly differentiates between existing and proposed, but this is what we have for the moment: …
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There are various maps of completed works. https://www.terrain360.com/map/tri-county-regional-trails/embed?continue=1#11.89/42.68815/-84.54056 https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/b6665077-115d-492d-8d46-458b6bdee9b4
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They will be just fine. All of these places are outgrowing everything because so much development is happening over that way.
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Looks like the EDC got a grant for the Barber College at the old redone plaza (North Point Plaza) at Lake Lansing and Larch - it looks really nice! - to move to 4414 South Penn. It's a nice, glass faced modernist building just south of Cavanaugh; I'…
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Anything along I-94 gets more cross-thru-state travels than anything off of it in the state. Always has. It's not that Kzoo can do more than Lansing; that's not what I was implying. It's that it can punch far above its weight. In any case, in additi…
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BTW, the CADL executive director did get in a nice dig at the city, I can not lie. She said she hoped the the city of all parties would be empathetic about wanting to move from an old building in which they didn't want to pay to upkeep. She did get …
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City Council unanimously approved the resolution, last night, opposing a move of the downtown library, so they are on record about that. An LSJ article quotes CADL's executive director as saying any move would be years off, so it sounds like they've…
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Kalamazoo is pretty nice and forward-thinking; its' development pattern/built environment sort of reminds me of a smaller Lansing. I get the sense that their institutions are more on the same page/better coordinated than our's (i.e. city, county, st…
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Being on I-94, they are naturally better placed, and take better advantage of it. They highly promote that they are equally distant between Chicago and Detroit. But, also, they don't have anything like the Lansing Center downtown, currently, so this…