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Yes, from what I've seen the Allen Farmers Market is doing OK, better than The City Market at this point. Bottom line is if Flint can have successful new farmers market, than Lansing can too. I've really been trying to think of what Flint did bet…
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I wonder if the time has come to open up Park District to smaller scale developments. After 15 years it looks like the market just doesn't want to build up that site the way East Lansing wants. The more I think about it, while Abbot and Grand River …
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It's really amazing what Gillespie and Potent Potables has done for this community. They've been crucial in creating a critical mass of development of Lansing. Though we're still plagued by the occasional rash of closings, the good news is starting …
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Detroit's big problem is that it has way too many neighborhoods that don't generate much tax revenue. Big commercial roads like Gratiot and Grand River are mostly inactive and in need of serious redevelopment, not to mention other commercial streets…
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Looks like the article was called or "A Complicated Legacy: I-496 Slashed through Key Black Neighborhood in the '60s" or "Looking back: I-496 construction complicated legacy". Wikipedia has a link to an archived version of the first page of the art…
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I think the biggest problem is that, for some reason, knocking down old, architecturally uninteresting homes in East Lansing is considered impossible. Downtowns grow by redeveloping adjacent residential areas. To give an extreme example, Harlem in M…
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Ann Arbor got it right. Don't plow a freeway through your historic areas. They avoided that impulse and, lo and behold, cars still find their way to U of M and the downtown just fine. I think if you could erase 496 ever happening and magically mo…
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In my experience it's tough to get Americans to walk over freeways. It really seems to kill pedestrian activity. 496 was a big mistake. They should've just built 96 farther north in the Jolly/Holmes area and used MLK to route traffic in and out o…
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I noticed a lot of talk about linking REO Town to downtown in the articles about the redevelopment of City Hall. While that sounds great in theory, with the freeway, the river and the new substation, there's a lot dead/inactive space between the two…
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East Lansing's downtown is becoming quite a unique beast. It's building up along a single corridor almost to the exclusion of building out. Most American downtowns the size of East Lansing would have a couple of north-south and east-west corridors, …
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I'm sure upgrading the existing QDs would probably be better for sales in the long run. But the current QDs are very endearing. People love QD. The logo/signage could be spruced up a bit, but at this point I think staying retro is the way to go, a l…
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I think QD's image is perfect as-is. It screams, "We're fumpy, sour cream in everything is our secret ingredient and we love to get hand-dipped ice cream from decrepit gas stations! Oh, and I think I have just enough money for another lotto ticket t…
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I'm very excited about Walter French Junior High School. I bought a house in that area and I keep wondering if I'll see much appreciation in the next ten years. It's hard to say, though projects like that would certainly be a help. I'm hoping that r…
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@gbdinlansing: I don't like riding in the streets on the main roads unless there's a bike lane, and even then I'm not a huge fan. I'll stick to the sidewalk and cut over to side streets if there's a lot of pedestrian traffic. I will ride my bike …
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I guess for me, I've noticed that I can bicycle to where I'm going a lot faster than the bus can get me there. So I only take the bus when the weather is bad. I live and work in Lansing and my bike is over twice as fast as the bus. For me it takes a…
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CATA could use some updating. Route 1 is the only that I'd call convenient and even that could be improved. The two main things I'd like to see is an updated app that allows you to buy tickets, and routes that continue going east-west or north-so…
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I should've elaborated in my last post that in my dream world, GM would partner with the RE Olds Museum and improve it. Not that it isn't already a fine museum, but certainly it could be expanded.
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I believe I remember reading about a time not too long ago when the city asked GM about the huge parking lots. GM hinted that maybe one day the company would use the parking lots for a new development, and that shut the city right up, of course. Lan…
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@Hood: That was great information. Thanks. Still makes me think GM is the clear #3 economic pillar in Greater Lansing, which is undoubtedly a very important role. I wouldn't want to see GM leave. @gbdinlansing: GM World in the Renaissance Center …
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I know as a millennial that GM/the Big 3 are not big on our radars. When they do hire our parents and aunts and uncles will freak out and repost the job ads on our Facebooks, but when you really look at the offer it's usually not that great. I can g…