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Pictures from around downtown (also more pics in that Flickr link): There's not much visible progress on the outside of the Lake Trust Building, just some trash shoots out of windows. They finished drilling the foundation for the new building a cou…
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There was that mention of the local venture capital guy who wanted to build a high rise, I wouldn't be surprised to see him partnering with a developer. One of the downtown organizations' Facebook groups recently posted a picture of that abandoned b…
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Fox 47 had a story today about less state workers and they interviewed Gentilozzi, he said they will have details of a new multi family development within a few weeks. They alluded to it involving the Atrium Building, he also owns the parking lot at…
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@Lymon89 Agreed, I've been fulling stripping and reglazing all the windows in my house. I don't think the stained glass windows should even be that difficult to fix if you're not dealing with broken glass. I managed to regrout and repair some of the…
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@gbdinlansing I have mixed feeling about the Clara's thing. Seeing the a chain place go in there and the place divided up isn't the most ideal use of the space imo. They also mentioned replacing windows, I hope they retain as many of the stained gla…
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I think the fate of that pool at IM is up in the air, MSU had announced they were going to drop swimming sports after the 2020-2021 season but I'm not sure if they followed through with that or if it was supposed to be a permanent move. That being s…
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I somehow missed this: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state/spartans/2021/02/04/michigan-state-football-basketball-mat-ishbia-donation-tom-izzo-mel-tucker-facilities/4390156001/ Here's a longer video presentation: Accordi…
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I'll concede that the world economy can be described as capitalist and that China has never had a very free society, certainly not in recent history. They have learned how to prey on that world economy and exploit it to their benefit, by all means b…
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Eating the meat or being exposed to blood & fluids would have nothing to do with the transmission of the a respiratory virus, living breathing things being in confined spaces is the risk for this type of virus. More often than not when a zoonoti…
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Great to hear about those extra lanes there. Now if we could make 127 three lanes from 96 to Lake Lansing and do something better with the 496 interchange I'd be quite happy with our freeways.
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I personally love to talk about politics and the like passionately and without grudges, certainly no apology needed for me. I considered myself a liberal throughout my youth but the seeming shift to the far left to the point of embracing socialis…
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I agree that the aircraft themselves are always an impressive sight. But when it comes to covid rhetoric both sides seem to be full of grossly inaccurate views of reality but in opposite directions. I've kept up with science news for years, followin…
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Yeah, as an independent who wears by beliefs on my sleeve (civil libertarian, pro-capitalist, foreign policy conservative admittedly sometimes bordering on neocon) who doesn't identify with any party (and loves discussing these things), I'm not seei…
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I'll miss that little lot at Shiawassee and Pere Marquette as a spot to watch the fireworks from but it is a good spot for apartments. I'd love to see Gillespie to a simple brick building with the look of an old warehouse converted into apartments t…
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Of course they can physically fit two way streets there but I'm not sure what traffic would be like. If they were to ever reduce lanes on Saginaw/Oakland there'd have to be a lot of thought given to where they push traffic to, you'd probably have to…
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I'm happy to see Sparrow expanding, the additional jobs will be nice and I'm glad they're not tearing down Eastern for this. That being said I'm still not a fan of the surgical center project, I don't like the vacating of a street and I don't like t…
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I can't say I'm a huge fan of the building but brutalist designs have grown on me over the years and the Lake Trust building is decent. I'm not optimistic about what they'd end up doing if they were to heavily alter the facade so I'm content to see …
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I've long thought that the stretch of Cedar in between the river and Cavanagh has good potential to become sort of a semi-urban district with some mixed use buildings and apartments along Cedar along with a general trend to build closer to the stree…
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I finally looked at the rendering on the banner for the Lake Trust site and all I can say is "meh". I don't mind them leaving the concrete facade largely or entirely intact but I do wonder about what they'll be adding to it, it's hard to tell from w…
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If they actually do the entire Lake Trust block the way that's depicted there then I'd be a pretty happy guy. I noticed they had some new equipment there today, including an excavator over by the small office building, they may be tearing that down.…