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I read on the Mayor's site that they are slowing down this process to put together a plan that includes the police courts and lock-up facilities. The Mayor thinks and I would agree that all of these issues should be planned before moving forward wit…
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I heard on local radio news that the mayor is holding a news conference today about the City Hall project, the headline of the story was "Is the City Hall Project coming to a sketching stop"!... I wonder what's up?
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Art's Bar on Kalamazoo is looking good with the new windows and doors on the building. Looks like they will have an outdoor patio with a big overhead door in front.
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I think the case in Boston is that the new growing Seaport area is on a peninsula across the harbor from downtown, with traffic choke points at the bridges. Go over those points without adding more traffic to the street level is the idea. It was jus…
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The LSJ wrote that they are taking another look at building a new courthouse and police facility behind the current courthouse [formerly Auto Owners] building. There is a half block wide parking lot there so there would be room if they build up some…
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I saw an interesting idea being proposed in Boston on the boston.com page. They are considering building an overhead gondola "ski style" cable car system that will connect the expanding Sea Port District[South Boston] with Downtown. The traditional …
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I am very happy to hear that they are are making plans to improve the downtown riverfront.The public/private funding is not really encouraging, but it seems like some companies have already pledged funds so maybe it will work. I hope this is a chanc…
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It is interesting to think about how downtown Lansing would be different if the University were located downtown, or if East Lansing had a layout that surrounded the campus as do many campus towns. I think this is the site to consider such thoughts …
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You can find that article at Curbed Detroit.
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I read about a very interesting project called The Great Lakes Hyperloop. Cleveland to Chicago in 28 minutes! Via a tube with magnetic levitation "trains". Let's get Lansing in that loop!
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I read where Lansing is the number one affordable {mid sized} city to live, in the whole country! That is pretty cool, that is one reason I live here. Maybe having the worst streets to drive on helps to keep home values "affordable".
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That is great news! Maybe we will get some new drawings or new ideas for the design. I guess Lansing is happy with lowrise buildings, which is fine really. it is kind of a distinction of our city. I hope they will build low rise buildings that are o…
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It is good to hear they are at least considering these things.
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The park on W Mt Hope pre-dates almost all of the buildings there now.I knew some kids in college that lived there. It was not so bad back then but I would not say it was nice either. Way back it was kind of the edge of town in the middle of an area…
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I wrote with some of my ideas for tree trimming and road paving to the BWL, and they wrote back! It seems that they will put utilities underground if each customer along a line wants to pay for it. I was speaking about an overall plan of putting all…
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In REOtown the river level is pretty close to our parking lot's level and is higher than I have seen it in the time I have been back here. I parked on higher ground. From the two Elm Street bridges you can see the water is very high. The north bank …
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What is happening in Detroit is really amazing when you think about what it looked like in recent history. The Detroit District and arena look great on TV. I look at the Curbed Detroit page often. I wish the wealth was spreading out into the vast ne…
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I have not been all over Detroit, but I did notice that much of I-96 has been rebuilt recently [when?] and they have nicely landscaped the sides of the highway and around the overpasses. Our expressways would benefit from the same treatment. The "B…
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I do not have any pictures, my Dad had a Sunoco station on the corner of Main Street and Logan. On Main Street, there was a couple of churches small corner stores and lots of small bungalow type houses very old and very used, on down to fine big hou…
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In the 60's this was the site of the Jupiter Department Store, which we called Jupiter's. It was a five and dime kind of store. There was a lot of that type of store downtown. In this photo, you can see the first idea they had for malling S. Washint…