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It's disappointing to hear that the city vacated Washtenaw, it seems somewhat unlikely that Eyde would reopen the street as any part of redevelopment plan. And you're right about development shifting east. Washington really does need some major deve…
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Do you know if the city vacated that last block of Washtenaw? I'd really like to see that street reopened and the area developed as two separate blocks. I'd agree that I wouldn't expect anything very tall here but I wouldn't be completely shocked at…
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This one seems like kind of a wild card as to how much they get hassled by the EL City Council. I could see this project moving fairly quickly. I don't remember reading anything about them requesting incentives (are they?) and this doesn't involve p…
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I'm glad to see that building go. It looks like a big enough lot to actually be useful to someone so I'd hope that something gets built there sooner rather than later. Thinking about that stretch of MLKreminds me of the 7 block area, I still wond…
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That's good to hear about the soccer field. I haven't been down there recently but Simken was in pretty rough shape even after they tore the worst stuff down, this should do a lot to help that out.
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I was enthusiastic about a new City Hall but after seeing the proposals for the City Hall site and seeing the lackluster plans for a new city hall, I've completely turned against the idea. There's really no understating how disappointing it'd be to …
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Here's a link to the story: Lansing's Community Foundation commits $1M in matching funds for downtown riverfront development It's great to hear about a $2 million dollar investment in the riverfront, but I hope they don't spread the money too thi…
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I feel like the City has really slacked off on planting trees over the years, maybe they're getting back into it again. Going down Cedar in particular there are tons of empty planters, I think that's the case on a lot of other streets also (though t…
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The news about 735 E Hazel becoming apartments is great, that's one of the main buildings I wanted to see renovated in the city. The multi-floor area of that building isn't very large though, to get 160 apartments I'd think they'd have to use some o…
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@MichMatters I saw your post regarding the new form based code over on SSP, that's the first I ever really looked at it. I had been assuming that it was just another fairly meaningless master plan update, not a fundamental shift in the way things ar…
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I'm late once again buy I just wanted to chime in on the RE Olds museum sale. I'm really glad to see them own their building and I agree that their best bet is to sell and move to a more prominent location. If they had more resources I'd still love …
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@MichMatters No, I couldn't find it. I think it was under "documents placed on file" before, making it easy to find. I don't see it there anymore. It might be possible to find it if you knew the date of the council agenda it'd be in. As for City …
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Well that's disappointing, it would have been nice to see that building there.
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I'm not totally against even some of the crazier colors if they'd just use quality materials. Things like glass, ceramic or stone tiles; metal panels like on Knapps; or bricks that aren't just fancy cinder blocks. @gbdinlansing I think it's a saf…
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@deebomac I believe a major reason why downtown Lansing hasn't grown as much as it should have is the continuous demolition of some of the buildings nearer the Capitol Building while outward growth hasn't been encouraged, seeing that continue with C…
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@MichMatters I'm also glad to see infill development in that neighborhood, duplexes certainly aren't ideal but they're better than vacant land. The neighbors complaining is predictable and somewhat justified given the lack of duplexes currently in t…
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I hadn't really realized this was that serious of a proposal until reading the City Pulse article. I'll just say that this needs to be stopped. There's absolutely no reason to be pushing through a sale of City Hall at this point, much less for that …
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I'm not against moving City Hall but I'd much rather see the building preserved rather than reclad or tore down. Just like with the Farnum Building, the architecture of City Hall has grown on me. It's also a good point that there's just too much vac…
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It's great to see this actually happening, that neighborhood is in desperate need of something positive. I hope that someone can manage to build some retail on the remaining property.
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More good news for MSU, though I do hope they go with a fundamentally different design for the expansion. While on MSU: -Site work on the Interdisciplinary Sciences building has been underway for a couple months and it looks like foundation work…