gbinlansing
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Of course, I understand that it's all about money. Thirty or forty years is a "long term" investment that's for sure. Meanwhile, the rest of us get to look at a half-empty downtown. I know business people do not have to be civic-minded and many are…
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It's true that we tore down a lot of great buildings that framed the streets downtown. In hindsight, many of them could have been saved. It looks so busy full of people and businesses. I think that any restoration of a downtown retail district would…
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Thanks for the info...
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This may have been already happening and I just noticed, but I saw several dumpsters full of debris behind Old Eastern High School yesterday, which might mean the renovation of that building is starting.
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It was fun to watch this one go up over the past few years, as I pass by now I think of the enormous amounts of milk they must need everyday, and I can understand where the milk comes from, the giant industrial dairy farms where hundreds of cows jus…
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I was over at Preuss Pets this weekend and noticed they have put up a construction fence and closed the sidewalks around the Temple Building on Cesar Chaves at Cedar. It looks like this project is getting underway, which I believe means that these d…
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This is good news. Even during the current situation, there has still been a lot of sidewalk traffic here, so I would think that they will be successful in that location as folks already in the habit of coming to REOtown for food and fun.
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I have been to the Market a couple of times. I was also impressed with the store's decore and what they had for sale. I really like the locally baked bread department. The veggies and produce section was very nice and well-stocked. It is a smaller s…
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That is good news!
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I have seen a lot of patios at Metro Place [ymca] with furniture. and cars in the parking lot so there are people moving in there. Thinking of "Building 600" I guess that's the name, I would have built a couple more stories on the apartment side, th…
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The re-hab on the small office building on S. Washington at Elm is looking good. Nothing too exciting but they have replaced the old pebble stone-faced panels with dark green colored plaster panels in the window columns. They look good and go well w…
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There is a preview video of the Capital City market on lsj.com. The store looks great, a little more warehouse-like than I was expecting and it also looks bigger on the inside. It is very interesting that they will be, [at least to start] featuring …
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It looks like a very preliminary drawing, I like that the building will have a nice facade facing Michigan on the south and the also on the west side, not crazy about the surface lot but it is depicted as having nice landscaping. I would think the e…
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Thanks
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I saw in the "Eye Sore" feature of the City Pulse they featured the downtown traffic circle as the eyesore of the week. I agree that the circle should be a showpiece, not the afterthought it seems to be now. I am glad they did not put up a contempor…
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Thank you for your kind thoughts. Kindness and time are the only remedies.
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The City Pulse had an article about the tax levy area residents are being accessed. While I feel for those folks, one guy had just paid the tax for a house in Groesbeck, then he moved to Frandor and has another drain tax to pay. I think a clean rive…
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Are the "islands" in the middle and the connecting streets in the township? They are some of the worst and most confusing and that's saying something! I think I saw the access road behind the eastern Frandor building had been closed. I wonder if th…
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Last week when I came home from my cabin where I am off the grid, out of cell phone range, and always on a news blackout to hear that my younger brother was sick and the next day he passed away. I went back to the cabin to try to recover this week t…
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I agree that the building is looking good, the best so far built by Gillespie. They have also planted a nice row of cedar trees along the back of the parking lot on the little street back there with many more other types of trees and shrubs. Also, t…