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Thanks for clearing up the confusion Mich - I've been trying to keep an eye on what the city plans to do with those properties, as I believe they're a part of the financial mess that the city is in... as I recall, they were part of a large, overpric…
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But it looks like the materials will be decent - almost all of buildings will be clad in a combination of masonry, metal panels, and EIFS (basically, stucco). Hopefully, proportionally in that order!
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Well, the time line suggests the developers are going to be at this for a while - groundbreaking would start next spring, the first buildings will be finished 2 years from then, and the final building is not expected to be finished in 2021.
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Any updates on this?
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Jared - I envisioned the funds for moving city hall would come from the sale of the more desirable downtown parcel, but I really have no idea whether this would work. I agree it is best to keep as many city hall associated folks downtown as possibl…
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Thats odd... I thought that the City of EL owned those rental properties. I seem to recall that they were considering knocking them down to put in a temporary surface lot while parking ramp under City Center was going to be built.
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Mich - great news! Glad to hear it!
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Huh... I guess that somewhat explains why Gillespie is fine with tearing down old buildings next to vacant lots...
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... and finally, that the unremarkable city hall building complex is squatting on a lot of wasted space in the downtown area... it would be great if they moved up abbot and built a more space efficient building across from Hannah on all of that was…
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And that the city still has way too much surface lot parking in that area of downtown...
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Looking at this rendering, it becomes painfully obvious that those properties on the opposite sides of evergreen and albert ave need a serious upsizing!!!
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Here's the East Lansing historical districts map: https://www.cityofeastlansing.com/DocumentCenter/View/1100/Historic-District-PDF?bidId= as you can see, almost the entire downtown area is penned in by historical districts
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Given Hagan's comments from the Eli article, it's pretty clear that they only care about their convenience and how much money they can squeeze from their desirable property near campus: "At the meeting, Brian Hagan pushed back, noting the project…
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Mich - I'd like to see the city restrict development in that area to a higher minimum height, consistent with the future use plan for most of the downtown area (https://www.cityofeastlansing.com/DocumentCenter/View/7258/Master-Plan-Draft-May-4-2018-…
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Well I hope that means they'll be building up as quickly as they did with Skyvue. I'm already tired of them having Albert completely blocked off!
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The news about Ellison is awesome! I keep meaning to make it up to the new brewery on the north end of Old Town, which looks to be nicely extending the walkable commercial area of Turner street.
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I was surprised to see that both Elderly and Marshall had music stores in downtown EL!
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That's the one I was thinking about hood, thanks for the info. Jared- ELi has an update on the Albert townhomes/Hagan development. Apparently the proposal through ELCC: https://eastlansinginfo.org/content/downtown-albert-avenue-project-comes-…
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Thanks for the info Mich - here's to hoping that the current development along Michigan Ave leads to those parcels getting built up too!