A few more pieces from the development agreement for Red Cedar Renaissance:
I think I may have forgotten originally when talking about this to say that this is primarily an environmental project, and the private development came later. The area has been facing down a requirement to stop storm run-off into the Red Cedar River from the Montgomery Drain, which runs through the site and Frandor to the north. This could either be accomplished by sewer projects or by this more natural approach of using the former Red Cedar Golf Course to clean the run-off before it reached the river. Ingham County's long-time Drain Commissioner has been really big on using nature to clean storm water run-off, so of course this is the option he chose. At the same time, the previous mayor was really big on connecting Lansing and East Lansing more closely along Michigan Avenue and saw this as an opportunity so he pushed the site for development above the public drain commission project. So this is what you got. I want to some better architecture, here, but it's really a miracle they are developing anything above the flood plain at all.