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Unpopular comment maybe, but I think the city just needs to give up this idea that *downtown* needs "diverse" housing. There is a better case to be made that the city as a whole benefits from having a diversity of housing types of available. They ne…
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We live in the Chesterfield Hills neighborhood, a block or two north of Michigan Avenue. Was chatting recently about this problem of extremely loud vehicles (often but not always motorcycles) running up and down Michigan Avenue. Seems to be a nation…
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Per some recent conversation, I will say the present airport terminal can be quite nice, although I do think some of that niceness is just the result of "not that many people around". I had that in extreme this morning because I was just dropping…
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Just playing around this evening, decided to ask four different LLMs to rank the churches in East Lansing by size of congregation. I then discovered (because I know some of these churches) that the numbers Grok and ChatGPT were giving me were waaaaa…
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We just told the front desk "an infrastructure guy told us we could walk around and see the place" (which was true, a friend works for MSU facilities), and they had us sign the visitor's log and gave us two visitor passes.
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Toured MSU's new student rec center yesterday. Certainly the largest and nicest gym I've ever seen.
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British travel "influencers" Josh and Jase are apparently in Lansing today: https://x.com/joshandjase/status/2082135095981248823 I don't really know them. Someone, excited, sent me that obviously under the impression I would know who they are.…
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MY BAD ON THE TERRIBLE TYPO. Sorry about that. Yes, I wrote a comment on FB defending the cameras. Guy replied to me and basically said "I agree with all of that, but a human should be doing it". And I don't theoretically disagree, actually, and …
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Cedar Village sidewalk widening.
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Missed this, but looks like the EL City Council also approved "up to 30" of the little cameras downtown to automatically issue parking tickets. Installed by MSP, so it costs the city nothing. A ticketed person pays $42. MSP keeps $25 or that, the…
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The DDA (which would be the owner of Peanut Barrel) and the Planning Commission had both recommended the development proceed, only the Council said no. It does seem odd, in that almost everyone seems to agree that the lot will eventually be devel…
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EL city council last night approved the proposed 12-story development where the Student Book Store presently sits, vote 5-0, with a requirement the developers lease 224 spaces from city parking lots instead of their proposed 157. (People living in n…
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Based on an East Lansing city council agenda item tomorrow, the city actually installed seven cameras downtown to automatically mail people a ticket if they are illegally parked. No one has been mailed a ticket (it is / was just an experiment for no…
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Hello, I am sharing old development again. I think "Bowl Above" is two years old, now, in East Lansing. And I've probably DoorDash ordered from them half a dozen times. But never actually walked inside until today. Pretty cool Japanese / East Lan…
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I kid you not, LSJ published a photo gallery about "abandoned Spartan Village" today!!!!! https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2026/07/14/tour-the-abandoned-spartan-village-at-michigan-state-university/90913534007/ G…
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They have now also painted white "stop here" lines at Clippert and Michigan, so a pretty sure sign traffic lights are going in. (Still no traffic lights yet.)
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This is actually anti-development photos. Took a bike ride through Spartan Village these evening, actually having FORGOTTEN that this is now, *abandoned* Spartan Village. The tall grass and complete lack of people around clued me in. Kind of a creep…
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This is probably, for a medley of reasons, low-reliability data, but went through HUD data this evening to make a plot of total homeless population, and unsheltered population, for Lansing + East Lansing area from 2005 to 2025.
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Maybe I shared that piece by Chris Arnade a while back where he commented that, in South Korea, even the drunks behave themselves. He gave an example of some drunk men walking 500 feet to use a public restroom, and leaving it immaculate when they we…
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https://www.wlns.com/lansing/capital-region-airport-reconstruction/ Tiny additional details there about the new sidewalk from the airport to Grand River Avenue. "The project also includes a new pedestrian walkway along the full length of Capit…