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This sounds great, I guess this sounds like a high end deli maybe with table service as well as counter to go. My first thought was "another sandwich shop?' But hey if that is what we need I hope it's a nice one. The city also needs to replant all t…
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I am thinking much the same thing, it is still at the could be stage and right now it is not so great. But I have found the conversion interesting, and I think may be the point if this site, to talk about what is and what might or even could take pl…
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It was were the finished cars rolled out. You could often see the "bodies from Fisher Body" come over to the assembly plant. That was about 3/4 of the whole body which was painted and finished, of other words the passenger compartment,doors, rear qu…
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I do like that they included the old facades, I was just wondering why they don't use them as a reference for the new building. I find the old facades visually more interesting, they look more urban than building that will surround them. This plan s…
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I sorry and I won't go on about it but I just don't understand this plan. Including the old facades looks forced. Nothing relates to them. It's kind odd they depict the old rusty fence next to 496. The building design looks dated.
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From what I saw on their web site the company seeking to redevelop the School for the Blind campus should be hired by Sparrow. It looks they have done many old school buildings very nicely. I hope they can retain the facade at least. Also build some…
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Looks good like it belongs in Lansing. It seems like they should wait until they have all the funding and tax breaks in place before they announce the development plans. Maybe that is part of the PR campaign that has to take place in order to get th…
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This will be good to have on the edge of Old Town and downtown. Lots of people living walking distance of both centers is going to be great for business and for the people who live at this urban campus. I thought this was all underway with the Mayor…
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Yes that is true I was kind of responding to the comment about the Mac Donald's. I guess I was on the wrong page. As for city hall I would like to see them build something with the style and interest the city put into the past two city halls. The …
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It's too bad about your favorite MacDonald's. I hate when that sort of thing happens. I know I have been away for a long time but one place that has been really stripped of any local identity is the Colonial Village Shopping Center. Of course it loo…
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David, did you see the ice skating path they built in Chicago? It is so great. It is a refrigerated meandering ten or twelve foot wide path through a park. They could do that here at the Adado Riverfront Park or along the downtown river trail. They…
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I walked by that block the other day and it true I wondered why it has this big ugly empty building with 60's rehad panels crumbling onto the sidewalk. Wasn't that parking lot where the Tiffany Lounge Restaurant was? I wonder what happened to that p…
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I would like to say that I agree with hood. I know that I am not impressed with many of the plans talked about here because I want them to be better. I think someone here said that a good design does not necessarily mean more expensive. Here in Lans…
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I think that neither is very exciting, and now that you point it out I forgot about the loading dock door,and I thought maybe the siding was marble or white stone. Which ever the case they could both use a revisit to the design desk. It will be grea…
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It looks like a good start, the lSJ used a different rendering which I like slightly better the the one pictured above. I am hoping they could have a couple of store fronts maybe a coffee shop or something like that. Perhaps the developer will hol…
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Do all these developers have the same architect? Except for the building on Harrison many of the drawings look like the new building on Trowbridge. Which is to say not so good. I know it is a cost vs. ascetics issue and ascetics almost always loses.…
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No big deal but it was you Mich that asked what building I was talking about and what do I mean by GM. It's the only building with a billboard and I just think it looks bad. I do also believe the company that owns it is called GM. I could be wrong.
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I am talking about the big black glass and white marble building that they use for a billboard, it's the only one like that at the Grand River plant. On Townsend Street. When I lived here 35 years ago it was the administration building I do not know…
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Another REOtown update, over at GM they put up a new billboard. It's mainly white and has a big man's face in it. I am again having a hard time understanding why this is what GM has come up with as a good use for these iconic and historic buildings.…
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Thanks for the photos. I do tend to be overly critical of corrugated metal as an outer siding, and here again I will have to go and have a look myself. I can not say that I really like this building's facade treatment. Is it suppose to be a referenc…