More from
Center City as of September 28 courtesy the
City of East Lansing twitter account:
Looking south-southwest:
Looking south:
Cranes of
The Hub looking east:
Back in Lansing, tomorrow's Planning Board agenda updates us on a project long in planning. The owners of the former site of the troubled
Deluxe Inn motel at the southeast corner of Malcolm X and Washington at the northern edge of REO Town just south of downtown is up for rezoning. They are proposing building a 5-story, 112-room hotel fronting Malcolm X, and a 2-story, 40-unit apartment building which will also front Malcolm X, but be stretched back to the river since the parcel is so this. The apartment building will have underground parking; unfortunately, the hotel will have 128-spot surface parking lot. The crazy thing is that the district to which they are requesting a rezoning has no parking requirements (along with no setback or other dimensional requirements).
Map:
Site:
REO Town by
NewCityOne, on Flickr
Before they tore down the old motel:
Deluxe Inn by
Khalid, on Flickr
The lone conifer in the old coutyard was spared during demolition. It'll be interesting to see if the developers will building around it or cut it down.