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I am also impressed with the new building; it is a rare case in Lansing of "nicer than it had to be". It's great to see a company showing some civic pride. I have been wanting to try the new restaurant in the train station, I have not heard much ab…
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In my last installment for the Ice-Skating rink discussion! I saw a really cool ice-skating park with a serpentine skating path and a large rink on one end. They are also including a fire pit and a warming house. Let's do that! Maybe on the 496 cap.…
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It will not surprise me if the mayor thinks it is a good idea to cap a portion of 496 that that would be a square of grass and some trees with a plaque with a picture of what used to be there. As a person whose family was very much affected by the c…
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I don't get down to Detroit often and I did not know that they had covered some of the freeway downtown, or was that the concept drawings, it really looks like grassier version of the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston. It may be expensive but not impo…
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Perhaps you meant Sec. of Transportation! We have talked about topping 496 for a while now, maybe someone has been listening! My dad's service station at Logan and Main was one of the first properties they took over and destroyed. It was very traum…
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Out in New Hampshire in Portsmouth there is a really nice rink in an historic neighborhood of 18th Century buildings called Strawbery Banke. You can see it on many New England live webcam tours, it is near downtown where a lot of people still live. …
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While taking my morning walk along the Red Cedar over on campus, I noticed several small trees had been cut by animals. Today someone in Okemos posted a picture on "neighbors" site which come up on my msn feed page, anyway they posted a picture of t…
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GM made sure to put an end to the reasonable and reliable street trolleys and street cars, my dad used talked about taking the Inter-urban out to Lake Lansing [Pine Lake].
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When I was a kid in the '60s we had more reliably cold winters, the city would flood ball fields in at least four different parks to create huge ice rinks. I believe they all had warming houses and were open at night. Our rink was in Quentin Park an…
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I noticed crews marking underground utilities along East Michigan Ave by Frandor before the snow the other day. I am hoping this is a sign that the paving of the street is going to begin soon. I would not expect that they would do this during the co…
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I read an artical about how the "skating rink" [ice patch] in Rutter Park does not get much use! As an ice skater I would feel kind of silly taking about three strokes to go from one side to the other on that tiny rink. I don't know why things like …
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Wow these pics take me back. I Remember these views very well. Note there is no greenery anywhere! another East Coast refinance for a pedestrian and vehicle use street is in Provincetown where the main street Commercial Street is a narrow one-way st…
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I was walking in Scott Woods/Hawk Island yesterday. The Scott Woods area is kind has kind of a hunted feeling in the winter with all the huge fallen trees across the landscape, and the very old and knurled standing trees that are easy to spot withou…
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Sounds encouraging! the hint about new housing in Old Town along with the New Vision development on Turner sounds interesting. One thing that caught my eye was the larger trees that are planned for Michigan Ave. I was sure they would plant skinny li…
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I was looking at google maps for a possible pedestrian way from the Motor Wheel area perhaps to the river trail along May Street or Monroe Street. Maybe a wide sidewalk along Saginaw Street with some sort of protection or separation pillars and a fo…
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The top floor of the MSUFCU building downtown is being prepared for occupation which I can see from my patio. I believe with the MSU Museum leasing also renting a floor that the building is fully leased out. Perhaps this is a good sign that business…
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thanks for posting the pics, I think the new MSU buildings are attractive contemporary and fit into the campus landscape. I have enjoyed watching their progress.
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The new "I-M" going up on Harrison is quite the impressive building, the exterior facades and glass works are going up and it looks like it will be a nice looking very modern and interesting building. It resembles the "1855" building on Kalamazoo in…
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I agree of course, it is better just not great. I wonder if when finished the new street will help getting all the vacant spaces and buildings fixed up and rented, between "M" Sparrow and Collins there so many poorly maintained houses and buildings.
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I know the project is not finished but the new Michigan Ave improvements are very basic. I love the new paved street but, there are no finishing touches on the sidewalks like brick work or even textured patterns in the cement. Right now, what really…