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Sparrow announced the new cafeteria I mentioned a before. The design is more or less the same as in the rendering I found: Sparrow unveils plans for new cafeteria
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Regarding 927 E Grand River, I saw an elevation in the council packet or somewhere and it looked pretty bad. I hope they deny this request, I don't care if they develop that block as a large building or individual properties, but there should be max…
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I'm still not a fan of the setback but at least it looks better than their west wing addition. As for the height, part of me thinks that they will build it to allow for a vertical expansion, it would make perfect sense in this case and I'm not sure …
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All of those properties are within the footprint of the main building in that site plan. The rerouting of the streets throws things off when looking at it, for reference notice the street behind the main building is an extended Albert Ave.
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This building would be an infinitely better location than those run down, forgotten about storefronts on Southland. The area would have to be bustling for those to fill in with any high value businesses. The EDS location however, would be as good a …
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According to the property information page at the link; 100, 124, 128, 130, 136, and 140 W Grand River along with 341 Evergreen are owned by the same entity, which is listed as City Center Two Project LLC. Property records aren't always totally up t…
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I've always thought Krogers should take over the EDS building as it's a better location, it would also allow them to renovate it while staying open in their current building which is getting pretty rundown. I would think it will be some kind of reta…
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I found the real estate listing for that building and posted in on the last page of this thread, that was back in August, I'm surprised it's just now up for rezoning. Here's a site plan from CPIX: Site plan (pdf) As for the building you're talksi…
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Not surprising to see this. The move should have very little effect on downtown in the short term, but it would seem that this would make an expansion of the building a little more likely at some point in the future. BTW, I doubt the City has for…
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A drive through with space for six vehicles could mean a Sonic, it would be a vastly better location than Penn and 96. The article is very vague about everything else, just saying that they plan multiple new out buildings.
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They sorta work as an elevator for ships/boats: Locks - Wikipedia
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I think it's wishful thinking for the foreseeable future. The dams stand in the way, and if they weren't dams they'd be rapids, either of which would require locks to get around. I used to think it would be cool if the Grand River were made navigabl…
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I haven't seen a site plan. When they mentioned that they were planning a larger development later on I kinda figured they'd do something shoddy in the meantime. Hopefully they at least make the parking lot look nice and their office/hotel developme…
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It serves the developer well also as those meetings essentially act as brainstorming sessions and marketing focus groups in one. If I were a developer I'd want all the ideas and opinions I could get, even if I choose to ignore all of them in the end.
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As difficult as a might be to reuse, I have a feeling it won't be empty for too long. Seeing who ends up reusing it and how should be interesting though.
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I've never been in there, but it sounds like the interior is unique throughout the building. I hope that someone can make use of it as is, I can't imagine who would though. Maybe a large law firm?
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It would certainly make sense to to build the apartment building in conjunction with or after completion of the renovations. Everything I've heard so far says that the apartments will be ready by the Lugnuts opening day in 2016, but maybe they'll ju…
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I was under the impression that the apartment building was going to be built after next season. Is that not the case?
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To get a four floor building, spanning an entire block and built out the the street is great, the fact that it's going in a relatively off the beaten path area of downtown makes it better. My only gripe is with the vinyl siding and cinder block-like…
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The central city could use few hotels and one near Sparrow wouldn't be a bad idea at all. I know the subjects been beat to death, but I still can't understand for the life of me how downtown or even Michigan Ave hasn't got even a moderately sized ho…