ratchetwrench
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Small aside... every time I see a bird's eye rendering of the Abbot/GR intersection, I think about how nice it would be to see a large, edgy, ultramodern glass-and-steel high rise built behind the original façade of the curved building on the east s…
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Yeah, they do look a little boring. But that's not such a bad thing as long as they use decent materials. And the other renderings the make the buildings look a bit more dolled up at street level.
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Any update on Pablo's? It still looks a ways from being ready to open.
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Whatever happened to that proposed development next to the B&B on Albert, near 525 and 533? I haven't heard anything about that for a while...
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What the heck is an "Institute for Oddfellows?" An actual educational building or a just meeting place? I am a little familiar with the IOOF, but I thought they were more of a lodge-oriented civic organization like the Elks or Moose. Are their m…
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I hope they do something nice for downtown Okemos. In the past few years it has gone from a funky little neighborhoody crossroads to a ghost town. There must have been something like 5-10 small, independent businesses that have left that area.
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Just saw this yesterday, it is very exciting! I still wish "they" would do something with that vacant lot next to the hot tub place, and the incredibly ugly speedway station at the corner of Mich Ave and Clemens...
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Mich - Right on. Just imagine how different it will look if/when the "Park district" project is completed, and their is more density built up back from Albert towards the North, as per EL's long term plan!
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I just hope they break ground before the economy eventually takes a dump and the funding dries up...
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Hey all, I've been away for a while, so sorry if my comments are redundant with others! Mich - Re:Ann Arbor growth vs Lansing. I'd wager that part of this is due to the fact that housing is ridiculously expensive in Ann Arbor, relative to the re…
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Wow!!! Very cool. It would be great to see this linked up to Downtown East Lansing via the GR bike lanes, perhaps routed up Valley Court to Albert St., and to campus maybe via the proposed Harrison "road diet", or perhaps down Beal to the Beal St. …
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I've seen it before, but I love that layout, esp. with the long chain of parks along the riverfronts! They sure were brave about planning to build in flood zones back then though!
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Just drove by there today, and it looked to me like there was some more paving across the street for the brewery... seems to me like these were mostly gravel parking lots unless my memory serves me wrong...
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The train has left the station on renewables; fossil fuels are on borrowed time. In addition to the many US power companies that have committed to substantially expanding their portfolio of wind and solar power, there are is a steadily growing numb…
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Well I'm still waiting to hear about the new plans for the park district from the city or the developers... trying to be patient! Once the Park District is done, I'll be curious to see how the remaining "West Downtown" develops. Besides the PC p…
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gbd - sorry to hear about the trees! Perhaps you should go rouge and plant some in the middle of the night! Stores are just now starting to get stock for spring planting!!! Also, according to the LSJ, there are a number of MMJ shops getting shu…
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lansplant - oddly enough, I did talk to one of the managers at Horrocks about a similar idea a couple years back - opening up a small Horrocks in East Lansing or the Eastside of Lansing. He was friendly about the idea, but was keenly aware of the c…
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Spence Brothers, not Strample... I see from the Hub thread that you also got this info from the city.
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Good question... there is a "hidden river park" on the east side of East Lansing that gets its name from a historic stream that was channeled underground during the development of the neighborhood. And I have noticed that there is what seems to be …
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I just hope they follow through with their improvements of the riverbank to make it more accessible...