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The LSJ has a story on Eastern as it graduates it's last class in it's 1928 building. It's a bittersweet read. https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2019/05/30/lansing-eastern-high-school-building-pattengill-sparrow/1177776001/ …
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It's typical in things like hospitals that you need long floorplates, and in that case, steel is the usually the only practical material. Concrete wouldn't have been practical for these spans, or at least less so. I'd always likened this one…
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Never been to the old one, either, but I'm at Frandor all the time so this would be way more convenient for me. Still, I'm not sure if they'll get me since if I want a good health food store I go to Better Health just to the north. This also app…
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Just check the site from time to time. Ha! Speak of the devil, the LSJ has a story up: Structural steel going up at site of new McLaren hospital in Lansing LANSING - Working in a steady drizzle, workers used a massive crane to hoist t…
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I'd posted the webcam back on February 19th. That definitely looks like one of the cranes. I'm also glad they refocused the camera, for a good few weeks it was out-of-focus.
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270-foot and 215-foot boom crane was cleared with the FAA, today: https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=403076573&row=0 https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayO…
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Only thing I can find is that there is a sewer interceptor cleaning bid Delta Township placed for Carrier Creek which runs through the site. The bid was due back earlier this month. I don't know if there is where the sewer interceptor is, but I kn…
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Was just through downtown. I must say the masonry on The Hub is far-and-away the best on any of the current high-rises, at least until I see what The Graduate and The Abbot are going to look like. The Hub looks better than it does in the rendering…
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Looks like the sunken gardens is nearly opened. I'm impressed by how exactly they've reconstructed it, if even still disappointed in how this all unfolded. Sunken Garden to reopen in June Years of meticulous planning and careful attent…
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The hotel at Saginaw and Canal will open next week. The name "Hilton Garden Inn Lansing West": $5M Hilton Garden Inn, Blume restaurant to open next week in Delta Twp. DELTA TWP. - More than two years after it began to take shape on Sag…
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The public service department's throwback Thursday this week is probably the highest quality image I've seen of its era from downtown. This is the avenue downtown in 1939: It's weird how the excellent quality of the photograph makes this fee…
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Yeah, zoning regulations in both Lansing and East Lansing that have been passed recently are quite stringent. The product can not be visible from outside the building; it has to be in a locked room apart from the waiting area, etc. Check out all…
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Yeah, they plan no alterations to the outside of it. It was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014, which I think would limit such things. BTW, looks like sub-county 2018 estimates are out from the Census Bureau, and Lansing…
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Not online yet, but this week's City Pulse has a story updating the plans for the Genesee School in the Genesee neighborhood downtown. The plans to turn it into a community center - originally proposed back in 2015 - failed, and the building was so…
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https://twitter.com/purelansing/status/1131205737567399936
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We were just talking about this building a few months ago. Glad to have a new business, though I wish they'd redevelop the site to something more befitting the district. But, this should fit the current usage quite well, and a hardware store is ex…
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The elevation for the dispensary is on the last page (19), and it shows a windowless building with uninteresting brick facades, largely, with a few stone flourishes. It strikes me as a below-average strip mall building mostly because of lack of win…
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I appreciate how much Corey's and Lucky's has kept their properties up and built the porches for seasonal weather. I'm glad they stayed in the neighborhood. I hear nothing but good things about the both of them. Speaking of restaurants in the n…
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Thanks!
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The City Pulse had a story last week about how the city is remapping its floodplain on the eastside, and is using money from the sale of the Townsend Street Parking Garage downtown to eat the cost for what would have other been assessments for resid…