Some stuff in next Monday's agenda (Sep 17) of the Lansing City Council's Committee on Development & Planning that will go to the full council the following Monday (Sep 24):
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Waypoint Dunckel: Both the "Planned Residential Development" review and brownfield plan is up for approval for this one. This is the suburban(ish) apartment complex planned for the edge of the city at the southeas corner of Dunckel Road and I-496 on the site of an old, abandoned hotel. The project consists of 286 rental units in 4, four-story buildings on a 9.6 acre site. This required a lot split, as the frontage actually along Dunckel Road will be developed as a hotel and commercial space. This development is actually oriented from Collins Road. These are being built for MSU's McLaren Hospital to go up just to the north. More on that one later. Oh, this was given a new name:
Volaris Lansing. It's developer is Waypoint Residential out of South Florida, but their Dallas office in particular. Plans are that final approvals will come by the September 24th council meeting.
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The Wing: A public hearing will be set next Monday for the brownfield plan for this one. This is the old factory down at Hazel and Hosmer in a non-descript neighborhood just south of I-496. This came as a shock to just about everyone earlier this year because of it's location in the middle of "nowhere" as far as revitalization is concerned. Having secured its Special Land Use permit earlier this year, as it's seeking to house residents in an industrial district, the brownfield plan is for Phase 1 or a three phase plan. This first phase includes 60 apartment units of housing in the parts of the building which front Hazel and Hosmer. The Hazel frontage will also include ground floor commercial space and the Hosmer frontage will include a restaurant on the ground floor. Also a part of this phase will be the renovation of an over 50,000 sq ft footprint in the middle of the factory to temporary light industrial usage, as well as a unique 7,500 sf ft "maker space." This is scheduled all to start in October and be completed by January 2020.
What's really interesting is that this is only the beginning. We find out that Phase 2 includes renovating "The Hangar" section of the building on its north side into the container apartments they announced when they first announced the project. They will be stacked three-high in this old section of the factory creating residential complex within the building. This phase plans to start in the Summer of next year. The biggest thing we found out, however, is Phase 3. This phase will created a thin (only a 6,400 sq ft footprint) 16 to 20 story residential tower which will be over a parking garage they plan to build in about half of the temporary industrial space, which is a part of phase 1.
That phrase is tentatively scheduled to start in January 2022. Really, if even only half of this ever gets done it will be a success as far as I'm concerned. The developer? The guy who developed Elevation at Okemos Pointe above.
Finally approval is expected in late October. Preliminary work has been ongoing all year, but for heavy construction they want to nail down the brownfield plan, first.
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MSU McClaren Greater Lansing Hospital: On the committees agenda is the recommendation for the vacation of Alliance Drive (in full) and Technology Boulevard (in part) in the University Corporate Research Park as eastern city limits to make for MSU's new hospital. This will be a few blocks north of Volaris Lansing. A vacation approval before the full council on Sep 25 would allow them to start construction probably early next year.