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An LSJ articled and some new renderings: Original Biggby Coffee store in East Lansing to be razed, replaced as six-story building I'm happy with this design. If anything it's a sign that Studio Intrigue is maturing. It's certainly their style all…
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I'm almost certain it will become mixed use someday, and I think the Red Cedar Renaissance project will probably make it happen sooner rather than later. I'd bet the Frandor area ends up like a second downtown over the next few decades, it's already…
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I think I mentioned before that MSP was moving to the General Office Building out at secondary, their move hasn't exactly been a secret around the State. The rumor at first was that the Feds wanted the building, which makes more sense. MSP's buildi…
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This adds to the concerns of the LPD's move to HIll: The hidden cost of moving LPD. It also adds the interesting twist of Hepler trying to get first right of refusal on City Hall, he thinks apartments or a hotel would go good there. Whatever happens…
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I've been thinking about the factory complex at Mt. Hope and Washington for awhile now and its potential for redevelopment, I think I've mentioned it before. It seems like such a great opportunity for something special because of its location along …
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Yeah, I'm not a fan of eminent domain but it may be the only option here. If Strathmore won't sell/demolish/develop the property soon I'd be totally for the city taking it and using it as a park or something. Given the way Strathmore has handled thi…
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The Deluxe Inn site will almost certainly be a major part of bringing together Downtown and Reo Town. I just hope the Land Bank holds out for a good project on the site. The City could do a lot to spur development that way if they'd finally get arou…
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Yes it does. I have a feeling that development along that stretch of Washington will be a ways off unfortunately. There just seems to be zero interest or talk of anything, not even in the past.
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I was by there earlier tonight also. I'm really impressed by the job they did on this building, at least judging it from the road. I really have to stop being lazy and go take some pictures, I'd really like to take the time to get a look up close.
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City Hall is nearly twice the size of Farnum, which is only 78k sq ft. I can't find any official square footage for City Hall, but I remember hearing it was around 150k sq ft, which would agree with my SketchUp model. I'm pretty certain that if the …
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I just saw the old pawn shop on Larch also, I think it said something about Lansing's first distillery. I remember hearing something about a distillery in the news, I looked back and found this story from Capital Gains: Sleepwalker Spirits and Ale a…
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I'd find it incredibly hard to believe that Bernero or anyone on the council would go for a plan to sell CIty Hall unless there was a plan to move seamlessly into a new building downtown. The idea they always discussed before was to combine all c…
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Yeah, Logan Square is going to make for a helluva redevelopment project someday, I'm not sure what exists now will ever be able to be put to good use though. I think the only way to bring life to that property would be to raze everything there and b…
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As someone who spends a lot of their time driving all around the southside, I'd have to agree with you. To point out the positive first, things do seem to have bottomed out somewhere in the last 5-15 years and are slowly getting better. It'd be easi…
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My logic is that I doubt they'll just be able to build a foundation that close to the outfield wall without disturbing it. Therefore I figured they would already be digging fairly deep under at least part of the building to do whatever they have to …
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Yeah, I can't tell. But even with the ramp, you'd still have about 3/4+ of the basement that could be used for parking. I'd imagine having to put that ramp in already goes a good ways toward what they'd have to do for underground parking.
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The ramp is under the building itself, it comes in off of Cedar. If you look at the renderings you can see that there's no first floor (you can see clouds and trees though the building in the close up rendering of the overhang) on the east side of t…
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I think the restaurant is the building at the northwest corner. At the northeast corner there's no first floor for the length of that overhang, it's the ramp to the field. That's one of the things I was trying to decipher in the rendering because th…
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I'm glad to hear that Zoobies is doing well. I had some doubts about how they'd do in that block. Hopefully this will mean better things for the eastern edge of Old Town, especially the old Temple Club. Is it just me or does it seem that Lansing …
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I'd have to disagree with you on a few points. I don't think the building should be moved back at all, for one, its current placement should allow Museum Dr to fit just north of it. The current plan does put a walkway going around the outfield and I…