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Seeing that tower crane going up must be exciting.
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Sure is. By the way, they ended up pouring the concrete to anchor the tower crane that same afternoon -
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That apartment building at Ransom and Harrison - even for low-income housing - is unforgiveable with its architecture, though. Nice layout, but they couldn't face it with fake brick panneling or some kind of cheap painted metal or something? That looks like it's going to be bare concrete painted white or stucco.
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I agree that the material in the renderings doesn't look great. But they also don't look to be very high quality, final-presentation caliber images. This is probably the best we'll see for renderings, and let's hope that the actual built structure turns out better than these would imply.
In other news, in the rising tide of affordable-housing-related developments in this city, here's a fairly major remodel that may be much-welcomed by some current and future residents.
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$18 million renovation aims to provide affordable housing in Kalamazoo
Brad Devereaux | MLive
November 2, 2018
KALAMAZOO, MI -- An $18 million renovation is underway to transform the Village of Kalamazoo apartment complex into Lilac Hills. The development aims to provide affordable housing for its tenants, Grand Rapids-based nonprofit Hope Network said in a news release. The organization, which offers a variety of services ranging from housing to behavioral health to transportation, recently purchased the former Housing and Urban Development owned apartment complex through a series of grants. Renovation of the 165-unit complex, located at 4411 Lilac Lane in Kalamazoo, is scheduled to start this month after a ceremony to begin the project in September...
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Finally (and this is a little random), I noticed that Kalamazoo College is working on restoring its iconic chapel bell tower. I don't know exactly what's entailed, but there's scaffolding running all the way up. The chapel bells still ring, so I'm guessing the work is more related to exterior restoration - perhaps re-pointing bricks, etc. A few photos I took yesterday, at various zooms - thought it was interesting enough to post -
