Looks like EV Performance Warehouse Inc. mentioned just above is searching for 150,000 of industrial space in the city. There hasn't been demand for that much area in a single building in quite some time:
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One of the more interesting buildings along the Square, if not the most interesting:
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The [i]Ottawa and Butler[/b] residential project in downtown Lansing has been formally named and given a website. It's now known as Sobi Square, an acronym for the four streets that bind this block: Sycamore, Ottawa, Butler, and Ionia. It includes townhome buildings and multi-unit buildings.
Website: Sobi Square Map: http://sobisquare.net/images/downtownlansingmapQ.jpg Site Plan: http://sobisquare.net/images/sobisiteplan.jpg Buildings: http://sobisquare.net/images/12plexwithlink.jpg http://sobisquare.net/images/6plex.jpg http://sobisquare.net/images/3plex.jpg |
The Society of Friends (Quakers) Red Cedar Meeting is coming along quite nicely on their new Meeting House they are putting up in Old Town Lansing:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3561/...07c543ba_o.jpg And, the renovation of the Ottawa Street Station continues in earnest: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3452/...778e49c6_o.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3654/...fee4af56_o.jpg |
I was just in E. Lansing and Lansing the other day with my wife.
We went to a place called 'Insomnia Cookies'. The young lady working there told us that she doesn't have a car and lives downtown. She has two jobs (the second one being the mall). She said that the bus route along Grand River Ave is her LIFEBLOOD. She had nothing but very good things to say about that bus route, claiming that it was rated the best bus route in Michigan. That goes to show you--even in America, a good transit system can be praised. After all, for the most part all we ever hear is complaints about transit from seemingly everybody in every city. Her feelings about her transit experience were great to hear. Moreover, I also observed that bus route and was impressed by the significant number of people using it and frequency of bus arrivals. Just thought I'd share that.. |
The route you're talking about is CATA's more heavilyr-ridden, Route #1, and is the one route being studied to see if it could be converted to a light rail line. It can get crazy-busy as it connects the eastern suburb of Okemos with East Lansing and end in downtown Lansing.
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^ Funny you mention that, because I was aware of that and actually told that young lady about the plan. She had no idea, but I told her to write to her Congressman/woman in support of it.
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Along with the regularly scheduled buses along Route #1, CATA operates an "Entertainment Express" every Thursday thru Sunday from 7:30 PM to 2:30 AM that ferries bar hoppers to all of the bars and clubs along Michigan and Grand River avenues, as well as those in downtown Lansing and East Lansing, in a faux-trolley bus.
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Yeah know a resident of Okemos who's a downtown worker. She mention how she and others take the bus there and back to home.
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Michigan State Police Quarters construction. Bare Grand Avenue will be getting a new streetscape this summer, finally.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3379/...65839efc_o.jpg Up the street Ottawa Street Station renovation. A new crane has arrived, onsite, to construct the addition http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3604/...e9a235cb_o.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3321/...48c5c618_o.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3636/...f1039af2_o.jpg In between the Ottawa Street Station and MSP construction is the South Grand Parking Ramp that is to be upgraded in anticipation of the construction of the 12-story Capitol Club Tower that is to rise next door. The renovated ramp will include creeping vines and parking spots for bicycles. Quote:
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Another yellow crane was added on the site of the Accident Fund renovation and construction since even the last one just a few days ago...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3541/...23fcc081_o.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3324/...a2a48e65_o.jpg So, there are two, 300-foot yellow construction cranes that have joined the one, 300-foot renovation crane for the existing building. |
Looks like some form of upgraded transit along Michigan Avenue may be closer than any Lansingite knows. It'd be something he we could have a hideous push for light-rail, but I'd settle for any improvements along the corridor:
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I don't know anything about Insomina besides that they have a storefront along Grand River Avenue. Actually, more speicifically, they have a storefront in the Stonehouse Village just off of Grand River:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3181/...d7681c.jpg?v=0 Eridony Anyway, as urb pointed to, her other job is at the Meridian Mall (at the eastern end of Route #1). |
^ Yeah, being that it had been about a decade since I last visited E Lansing, I was surprised by all of the changes, such as the new buildings like the one pictured above. Are there any plans to replace the old Taco Bell just across the street from the new one, because right now it's a vacant eyesore.
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It's just recently gone vacant, again. Places move in and move out. Hopefully, it's demoed soon given that whatever goes up will most definitely be better than the building. That said, even vacant, I'd not call it an eyesore. The building is still in very good shape, they keep the outside clean, and it's not been vandalized.
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^ Yeah, I guess--my problem with some of those stand alone Taco Bell buildings is that they forever have this "we used to be a Taco Bell" look to them. Starting from scratch would be a lot better
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It's going to be more of an administrative headquarters for the MSP than anything else. Unlike their current location on Harrison Road, this won't have a helipad or many other practical features for the MSP. All of that's going to be decentralized, I hear.
I'm still waiting to see what kind of gate/wall they end up putting around it. I just hope that it doesn't make it look too much like the compound they designed it to be. But, yeah, as for the architecture, it's pretty classy looking. They designed it so that it would give an architectural nod to the existing headquarters on Harrison Road. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3017/...c374ab5b1c.jpg Eridony |
Rendering of the new boardwalk going up on the eastside of the Grand River between Shiawassee and Michigan courtesy of Lansing Area Capital Gains:
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