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The Lansing School District lot for sale next to its headquarters is along Lenawee, between Walnut and Chestnut. See the CBRE site.
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The important thing to remember about this building is that it's also going to be an office building for BWL - so it's really a mixed use building from the get-go. They're moving their headquarters.
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More on Arialink's move to the former MDA building, now being called 230 North, from the LSJ: Internet and telephone service provider Arialink is moving its headquarters to downtown Lansing from Delta Township as a primary tenant of the former M…
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Richard Karp bought the building. Arialink is on one of the floors. Not sure who is taking up some of the first-floor space - the back half remains vacant. I think they're doing lobby renovations to the building at the moment. The first floor is …
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The story from the LSJ: Townsend bought the property in 2008 with plans for an $11.9 million residential and retail complex in the area bounded by Butler Boulevard and Ottawa, Sycamore and Ionia streets. But later that year, the banking and h…
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Bad news for this project, from the minutes of the 11/5 Lansing Brownfield Redevelopment Authority meeting included in the City Council Packet for Monday's meeting: Ottawa/Butler Property Discusslon : Bob Trezise reported that he has been conta…
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I think Jared is dead on. The city of East Lansing sought out proposals for the Albert Avenue surface parking lot a couple years back. This proposal is likely a result of that process. Given how the national economy has changed in those two years, a…
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Rentable class A space in the central business district: 1,991,834 SF Total rentable office space downtown: 3,200,452 SF.
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The building did have some major vacancy issues for quite some. The state once took up a bunch of space in that building - I think the AG's office? - and they never really started to recover from that loss until the new ownership and bringing Troppo…
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4Q 2009, central business district: 14.8% overall; 6.1% Class A. Overall market: 17.7%; 8.9% When One Michigan Avenue was bought by local investors, I think they realized the potential of the space at the north and south ends of the building to …
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Demolition of an existing building also could be held up by any mortgage holders on the property. If there is any value in the building being torn down, the bank may not want it demolished until financing can be lined up for the new project - that w…
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7 block was Sam Eyde. Knapp's is George and Lou. While family, they operate completely separate real estate operations. As does Mike Eyde, who's behind much of the Eastwood area. Most folks probably don't realize that because of the shared surname. …
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BWL has plans for a new natural gas electric and steam plant in REO Town. The project includes the vacant train station there. LSJ has the story.
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Interesting. Here's more info on the propose Wells Hall addition.
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Realistically, I doubt we have enough housing units immediately downtown to woo in a grocery store. There's a pretty good analysis of what could come next - and how soon we could expect retail growth downtown - in today's City Pulse. The new city ma…
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Blue Cross/Accident Fund owns the lot next to the Temple building, at the corner of Capitol and Washtenaw - not Cooley. Cooley's only undeveloped parcels, according to city property records, look to be those empty two-story buildings next to Knapp's…
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Cooley owns those buildings, which leads me to think their days probably are numbered. But who knows? The law school bought them from Accident Fund, which had been amassing land around downtown before it decided to move its HQ into the power plan…
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Recapping: Here's the LSJ story from this afternoon on the announcement. Plus, they have some old photos and some stuff from their archives. The project includes residential on the top floor, office in the middle floors and retail/restauran…
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Cross your fingers on this one: Eyde to discuss Knapp's building's future Eyde Co. is expected to discuss the future of a downtown Lansing landmark at a news conference today. The East Lansing developer is slated to outline what it says i…
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I've heard that Common Ground could put its second stage back at the old city market site this summer (last year they moved it over toward Washington and Shiawassee because of construction of the new market.) So I wouldn't be surprised to see some t…