Well, I may as well call out the other sites, I've linked to this site from there afterall. You might be thinking of urbanplanet which doesn't have an active Lansing section anymore, I was speaking of develop.metrolansing, it's quite active amongst the small group that frequents it.
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That is the one I was thinking of. I tried signing up, or "applying", but it has not yet been approved.
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The ~15 year saga of the City Center II/Michigan Museum Place/Park District plan may finally be coming to a conclusion. The original developer finally lost the properties to foreclosure earlier this year and a Chicago based developer has bought the properties. They have proposed a 12 floor building at the northwest corner of Grand River and Abbot with 153 hotel rooms and 179 apartments along with commercial space, there will also be an 8 floor 175 unit apartment/condo building and 7 floor 600 space parking ramp on Evergreen.
Plans for East Lansing hotel, luxury apartments expanded http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/5bb7...-100-Grand.JPG http://eastlansinginfo.org/sites/def...l_aug_2016.jpg http://eastlansinginfo.org/sites/def...w_aug_2016.jpg While there's not much news on the Red Cedar Renaissance itself, details on the accompanying drain project are becoming clear. There will be numerous water features, public art pieces and natural areas: The Art of Clean Water - City Pulse Watershed Moment - City Pulse Ranney Park: http://static.wehaacdn.com/lansingci...49.widea.0.jpg There's a reasonably sized development slated for the northeast corner of Larch & Shiawassee. The development will consist of two 4 floor 77 unit buildings. Details are sparse now but a site plan was available in planning board documents: http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...ite%20plan.png It's in the very, very early planning stages, but MSU is considering partnering with Mclaren to build a new hospital adjacent to campus. The new hospital would be located on non-campus university owned land near Forest and Collins. Mclaren would shutter its Pennsylvania campus and move it to the new location, MSU's primary motivation is to have a teaching hospital for their College of Osteopathic Medicine, although it sounds likely more programs would be included. MSU, McLaren in discussions to build a teaching hospital southwest of campus - City Pulse Also of note, two new hotels proposed for Eastwood. There will be a 143 room, 7 floor Holiday Inn (below) and a 139 room, 7 floor Hilton Homewood Suites constructed near the recently complete Hyatt Place on Showtime Drive. Both hotels could begin construction by the end of the year. http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/01e8...oliday-inn.JPG I haven't gotten out to take pictures in quite awhile, but all the area construction projects have progressed well. The 300 W Grand River project in East Lansing is complete; Skyvue and the Sparrow Cancer Center in Lansing are topped out with facade work underway; all but one of the buildings at MSU's 1855 Place are topped out while several are finished and occupied; construction will begin soon on East Town Flats (Michigan & Clemens) and Stonehouse Village IV (Grand River & Bailey). |
There's been a handful of new developments announced recently in the Lansing area, here's an overview of them:
-Scott Gillespie's East Town (SE corner of Michigan and Clemens) has had its design slightly modified and began construction a little over a month ago, it should be complete in the late summer or fall. http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...Town%20new.jpg -Two blocks down, at the southwest corner of Hayford and Michigan Scott Gillespie just proposed a new building, Provident Place. The $7 million project will be four floors with ground floor retail and 33 apartments above, it is slated for a late 2018 completion. http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...nt%20Place.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...ace%20rear.jpg -Across the street, halfway between these two developments at the northeast corner of Michigan and Fairview the conversion of a former bank into a restaurant and microbrewery has been underway for a couple months and is structurally complete. http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1.../arcadia-2.jpg -On the south side of Lansing, at the south west corner of Dunckel and Collins a developer is proposing a 629k sq ft development consisting of 6 four floor apartment buildings with a total of 453 units, a three floor 90 room hotel and a one floor retail building. This one's in its early stages and has only a site plan pulled from planning documents: http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...%20collins.png -Site work has begun on a much needed 5 floor, 122 room Hilton Garden Inn on the west side of the metro near the Saginaw / I-96 interchange. Site work at former Days Inn to make way for new hotel, restaurant - LSJ -DTN, the developer of the The Vista at The Heights, has proposed building up to 500 more apartments at The Heights (a northerly expansion of Eastwood Towne Center). They would begin building a 4-5 floor 100 unit building directly north of the recently completed Hyatt Place sometime this summer, they would then have the option of building up to 400 more units elsewhere within The Heights. Up to 500 new apartments proposed at The Heights - LSJ -A tentative deal has been worked out to sell the former GM sites on Lansing's west side to NorthPoint, a developer of industrial parks. They primarily expect to lure companies related to the auto industry. They will build approximately 2 million square feet of space spread amongst facilities 125k sq ft or larger, construction could begin within a year. Developer buying four Lansing-area ex-GM properties - LSJ Plans To Develop GM RACER Trust Sites In Lansing -Work will begin in August on a $100 million 170k sq ft Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building at the south east corner of Bogue and Service. The building is slated to house around 100 newly recruited faculty members, the university also plans to build complimentary classroom and lab space elsewhere on campus. MSU will build $100 million research center -MSU is also planning an expansion of their College of Business near the corner of Bogue and Shaw. The four floor building will replace the existing Eppley Building, there's no start date as of now. Eli Broad College of Business Addition No. 2 - Graduate Pavilion - MSU IPF http://ipf.msu.edu/_files/images/pro...dditionjpg.jpg I haven't managed to get out and take photos myself, but here's a few shots taken from various webcams of currently underway projects in the area: 1855 Place - looking west at Harrison Rd side of site http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...115-124905.jpg Breslin Hall of History addition - looking east http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...115-105446.jpg Skyvue - Looking south at the back of the building http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...115-101136.jpg Sparrow cancer center addition - Looking south http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...4%201130AM.jpg |
Thanks again for the update.
Quite the little building boom happening in Lansing/East Lansing. I'm actually quite a bit surprised, as Lansing has always sort of lagged behind Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids. The city definitely needs to strengthen those corridor districts, such as the east side/Michigan Ave corridor, and REO Town. The downtown leaves much to be desired for a city of its size. What I'd really love to see as well are all of those state surface parking lots converted into mixed use developments. |
Hopefully this is just the beginning of a much more significant building boom, which I think may actually be the case. The Lansing area largely missed out on the pre-2009 building spree that many areas experienced, we were just beginning to see some momentum before the market crashed and most of the projects proposed at that time were never built. It seems as though the area is picking up some serious momentum, my money's on 2017 being a significantly more active year for development than 2016.
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A few new developments:
A Chicago based developer in partnership with a local property owner/manager has proposed a $132 million dollar mixed use development. There would be a 12 floor apartment building facing Grand River mid block between Abbot and MAC while City Lot #1 along Albert would be replaced with a 6 floor parking ramp, a portion of which would have a 6 floor senior apartment building built above it. The project includes 364 apartments and 42,000 square feet of retail between the two buildings and 715 parking spaces in the ramp. This project is taking place one block east of the Park District redevelopment which is currently back on the drawing board due to a dispute between the developer and the city over incentives. Details Emerge on Lifestyle District Plan (Now called Center City District) http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...AERIALVIEW.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...e_feb_2017.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...e_feb_2017.jpg Also in East Lansing, a new 4 floor hotel and small commercial building are planned to replace the closed Howard Johnson on Trowbridge right where it becomes an onramp: $12M hotel project planned for Trowbridge Road http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...ill-suites.jpg The second phase of the Marketplace apartments broke ground to little fanfare: $11M project to add riverfront apartments downtown. Picture of phase 1 followed be renderings of completed phase 1/2: http://gillespie-group.com/wp-conten...ed-688x494.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...IEW-5-2000.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...IEW-7-2000.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...IEW-6-2000.jpg On a sadder note, the most unwanted project in awhile is underway. Site work has begun for an electrical substation that will replace a large portion of Scott Park at the southwest corner of Malcolm X and Washington. There is a historic "sunken garden" and a currently-unused house that will be demolished to make way for the substation, perhaps more importantly this is a prominent piece of riverfront land on one of the main roads in and out of downtown. The design is not final but the best received design by community members has them building the wall to look like a building's facade, complete with windows:Hide it or flaunt it? http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...3557.11730.png http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...27aa.11729.png |
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Downtown Lansing library makeover balances books and people Lawrence Cosentino, Lansing City Pulse, March 08, 2017 http://static.wehaacdn.com/lansingci...09.widea.0.jpg Image: New Circulation Desk Images Source: Lansing City Pulse http://lansingcitypulse.com/article-...implified.html Quote:
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(This applies to more than just the Lansing area, but since it is related to the Michigan Strategic Fund, I'm including it on this thread)
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Vision Real Estate acquires downtown Lansing office property
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Target is going to open in downtown East Lansing:
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A few updates:
MSU has finalized it's design for it's new interdisciplinary science and technology building-Link to MSU's site on the project-. The building will come in at 6 floors, 160k square feet and cost approximately $100 million. It will be built in south campus near the southeast corner of Service Rd and Bogue. Site work is just beginning now and the building should be completed in August 2019. http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...h-building.jpg MSU has also finalized it's design on an expansion to its Broad College of Business, the LSJ just recently ran an article on the project: $62M MSU business school expansion aims for Google vibe. The 3 floor, 100k square foot expansion is slated to begin construction in May and wrap up in July 2019. http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...e-pavilion.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...ng-2.28.16.png There's also a new rendering of the main building of Park District project at the northwest corner of Abbot and Grand River in East Lansing. The LSJ had it in a recent article about the project: East Lansing could take risk on Park District http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...011-PDnew2.jpg |
That is a pretty sleepy area for the new science and technology building. I realize having all that land is pretty enticing for expansion/development but hell. I wish they would start integrating some of these major buildings into the fabric of the city.
Also, if I had a dollar for every conceptual rending for the Grand River/Abbot site... |
This proposal for Grand River & Abbott is different though, it's a development firm out of Chicago and they have moved things along quickly. All the necessary approvals and incentives from the city were passed yesterday: $154M East Lansing Park District project is on again. Assuming the state approves the project for a Michigan Business Tax Credit, the old buildings on the site should be demolished in the summer and construction on the main building would begin in May 2018. I'm keeping my fingers crossed but I think it's actually going to happen this time.
That south campus area is getting busier, they've recently built two new buildings there and they plan on developing it further, including new roads connecting to Mt Hope and Hagadorn. The Hannah Blvd area (directly across Hagadorn) is also expanding, in the past 5 years or so there's been two hotels and about 1700 beds of residential built with almost 500 more beds on the way. Not that I wouldn't rather see the new buildings along Shaw or Wilson somewhere, but they apparently have plans to fill all those parking lots and empty spaces also. |
I've only been in Portland for about 2 years, and know the area really well as I lived in Lansing for about 10 years. I remember laughing at the development at Hagadorn and Mt. Hope when it came through our office at Meridian Township 10 years ago when I was an intern. Not that I don't like to see that kind of development. But it's the context. It's a mixed use development close to the road across from the farm fields on MSU's campus, which there is no municipal land use jurisdiction and wouldn't likely be developed in the same fashion. But it sounds like maybe things are creeping. I just don't put any faith whatsoever in MSU's land use and planning decisions. It's very obvious that whoever is in charge over there couldn't care less how its developed, just that it is developed. I imagine any big institution with a seemingly endless supply of land would do the same.
I'm with you on the Abbot/Grand River development. This time it's looking like a go. I've been watching this thing for so long that it's hard not to be a little cynical. There were actually functional businesses in there when I went to MSU. Thai Hut, the bank was still open, curiosity book shop, etc. On another topic, whatever happened to that East Village proposal that was floated a looooong time ago? Basically that whole area where the frat houses and Cedar Village was supposed to get dozed and completely redeveloped. Also, that section of Grand River from Bogue to Hagadorn was supposed to get a median and new streetscape. Any info on that? |
I'm not happy with MSU's spraw either but looking at their master plan I do think they have a decent vision for future land use. I wish they took a fundamentally different approach to land use and development but as you said, they have virtually unlimited land so there's little incentive to give a great deal of thought about how to use it. I think they're happy with having a suburban/park-like setting throughout campus.
As for East Village, it was just proposed at a very bad time, right before the real estate/financial market crash, there won't be a large monolithic development there and I don't think the company involved in the original proposal will be involved in the future. The city is still interested in the same sort of developments for that area though and they recently made some zoning changes for the East Village district that should be more accommodating to developers. There is a proposal on the horizon in that area; back in February there was an item in a city council agenda introducing a proposal to build a building up to 10 floors at the southeast corner of Bogue and Grand River, it would likely replace the 7-11 and Instant Oil Change. There weren't any more details at the time and I haven't heard anything about it since, but I'll post about it here if I see anything. |
Thanks, I appreciate it. I'm still very interested in Lansing and Detroit development news, it's just a little harder to follow Lansing these days.
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Center City in downtown East Lansing, which is nearing approval, has some new renderings for a slightly downsized plan:
The project keeps the existing alley: https://www.cityofeastlansing.com/Im...ocumentID=6357 Patio above the parking garage: https://www.cityofeastlansing.com/Im...ocumentID=6356 City Target on the Grand River frontage: https://www.cityofeastlansing.com/Im...ocumentID=6355 Full Grand River frontage also showing the proposed Park District/100 Grand: https://www.cityofeastlansing.com/Im...ocumentID=6353 Albert frontage: https://www.cityofeastlansing.com/Im...ocumentID=6351 https://www.cityofeastlansing.com/Im...ocumentID=6350 Depending on the proposal chosen (base option or option #1), the tallest building will be between about 132 feet to 140 feet. |
Looks really good. The parking garage is well concealed and the facade is nicely layered
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East Lansing is going to end up looking like Waterloo, ON.
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