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I don't really care about the conversion, but student ghetto? I lived in that area in 06/07 and some of the nicest student apartments are there, with several new medium size complexes with nice amenities (3 new buildings on Louis Street alone). Between Frandor and Beal St. is one of the nicest neighborhoods East Lansing has to offer. Strange characterization. On campus, the area centered around Cedar Village was always typified as the student ghetto, or even up in Bath.
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A small development, but Frandor-based Bake 'N Cakes chose a little non-descript buildings in southwest Lansing. It opened last month on MLK near Miller. It was really kind of surprising they chose this particular area given that there are definitely distressed parts.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtR8OJUWsAEHrSv.jpg They took advantage of the Corridor Facade Program, which is a seperate program for the facade improvement program for downtown. I'd like to see the city push this one harder and see more businesses reach out. The Corridor Facade Program offers three different levels of grants, the first being a small grant for the development of renderings and designs/signage, a micro-facade grant for small improvements to facades like such as painting projects, lighting, door/window repairs, etc., and then full facade grants, which includes full reconstructions and redesigns and such. Each of these are 50% matches. |
Lots of news, last month:
Park Place has been formally proposed for just west of Park District. It's size has been increased with each building being 14 stories. https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2...unds&auto=webp https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2...unds&auto=webp Developers pitch 14-story buildings for the site of Dublin Square in East Lansing Quote:
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Park District began construction staging a week or two ago: https://www.cityofeastlansing.com/Ci...s.aspx?AID=837 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Du9vh8oVsAI3K_F.jpg McLaren Greater Lansing broke ground on their new hospital campus on the 17th, and we got a new rendering: https://scontent.fdet1-2.fna.fbcdn.n...3d&oe=5C9CD2FF The $450 million hospital will be affiliated with Michigan State University and include 250 beds and other facilities. They are planning for a 2022 opening. Site work started on the 12th. The design has been value engineered a bit. Center City - December 26 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvXoIftX4AITESQ.jpg Landmark on Grand River The Capitol Visitor Center has been reimagined as Heritage Hall, and finally got the funding it's been searching for for over two years. https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2...unds&auto=webp https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2...unds&auto=webp $40M for Capitol visitor center approved in supplemental budget Quote:
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Not all that urban a development, but this one came out of nowhere. A development that did not require a rezoning or any kind of incentives is going up at 1921 West Holmes west of Logan Square on the southside. It's a three building project consisting of 30 townhomes around a central parking courtyard.
https://bsaonline.com/CD_PropertySea...ype=56&uid=384 What makes it notable aside from its location where you don't see a lot of new development is that this is on a 2 acres parcel in the middle of the city that held a single family home. The lots in this area are kind of peculiar and point to them likely having been grandfathered in, since all but this one are zoned for single family homes despite being anywhere from a bit over 600 feet deep to over 1,300 feet in depth. Very obviously in the middle of a city these kind of dimensions waste A LOT of space. The lot this is being built on is the widest and the only one zoned for multi-family. Everything to the east will have to eventually be combined and rezoned if they want to increase density, because the current zoning and widths of the other lots preclude multi-family housing. The city never ran streets through area to intersect with Holmes, so what you've got a mess of different land uses and density. |
^^ Post #1003, wow. Some great changes going on.
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In something of a surprise, someone on city council is proposing and overlay district that would increase the maximum heights for buildings in the city 20 feet to a total of 160 feet.
https://eastlansing.granicus.com/Met...&meta_id=70993 There was a proposal working its way through council a month or two ago that would have upzoned the western end of downtown. I guess the city is getting tired of trying to micro-manage height and have just proposed an even 160 feet for most of the downtown area. Basically, the city has had a very strict 140-foot maximum for decades, as they wanted to preserve their "small town" feel, and getting to that 140-foot maximum was only permitted in a section of downtown and then only then a special use permit. This basically had the effect of pushing development to the sprawling Northern Tier north of town. Finally noticing the incredible demand for downtown living, it looks like the council is slowly opening up to more density in the downtown area, and seem to have agreed that 140 feet is too limiting. I will be interested to see who proposed this and if it ends up being controversial. The 160-foot overlay is still 20 feet lower than the max of 180 feet in Ann Arbor, though. |
Speaking of height increases, we finally get a look at the preliminary site plan for Park Place...
https://eastlansinginfo.org/sites/de...site_plans.pdf ...and in a surprise, they are proposing the tallest building to be 186 feet to the penthouse roof, and 176 feet to the main roof. This would require a variance even with the passing of the height overlay. It would have 14 main roofs with a 15th floor clubhouse and roof-top deck. The shorter building will be 125 feet to its main roof with 12 floors. https://eastlansinginfo.org/sites/de...?itok=JwhItNbw https://eastlansinginfo.org/sites/de...?itok=qG9H0zET |
I kind of vaguely remember them announcing they had been doing interior renovation on this last year, but then forgot about it.
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With the new year, we're getting some new renderings of Newman Lofts at City Center.
https://www.facebook.com/NewmanLofts/ Library: This will include individual work stations and conference rooms. https://scontent.fdet1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...4f&oe=5CB8A89F Community kitchen (6th floor): It will be a full kitchen and dining room for residents. It will also be used for traveling chef's who will teach cooking classes. https://scontent.fdet1-2.fna.fbcdn.n...f7&oe=5CC37901 Down the street at The Hub on January 12 at Grand River and Bogue: https://scontent.fdet1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...3c&oe=5CD004AF https://www.facebook.com/HubOnCampus...type=3&theater |
Big news that seemingly came out of nowhere. Because of the huge supplemental budget passed last month, we're kind of still finding out what was in it. Apparently, there was money in it for Lansing to change most of its major one-way streets in the central business district to two-way. The city had planned this, but never had the money. Anyway, this will be completed next year.
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Very cool. Maybe Kalamazoo will watch and learn! (the city is all about it, but a lot of residents are agitated).
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10 floors. Because of the 140-foot height limit, everything is running between 10 to 13 stories with the difference being how tall the ground floors and second stories are in any individual project. In the case of The Hub, too, is that it's using its roof as an amenities deck and the ground floor has a mezzanine level, so it's really 12 floors in function.
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Site prep began yesterday on 600 East Michigan. Photo from the Gillespie Group:
https://scontent.fdet1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...63&oe=5CB90051 https://scontent.fdet1-2.fna.fbcdn.n...47&oe=5CC0F800 https://scontent.fdet1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...83&oe=5CC27DE5 The riverfront plaza outside of the old City Market has been officially renamed Rotary Park: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxiY-5gWwAAAH8q.jpg The activiation of this site will began construction in the spring and be completed by the fall. |
We get a preview of CATA's new Nova buses coming this spring:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dw-N2nqWsAEaHsT.jpg https://twitter.com/RideCATA/status/1085242008900390912 Final pour took place a few days ago on the last parking garage level on Newman Lofts: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxmvymDW0AEahek.jpg https://twitter.com/NewmanLofts/stat...94072122863618 This view, unfortunately, will soon be blocked by the towers of Park District. |
According to this week's city council agenda, it appears that the plan to turn the old North Larch BWL Substation (1609 North Larch) into 5 apartments got a special January 22nd planning board meeting after it was introduced at their January 15th meeting. At the previous meeting, the zoning office recommended to the planning board that the special use permit be denied. However, it seems that by the January 22nd meeting, the zoning office changed it's mind writing a new staff report and the the planning board recommended unanimously that the special land use permit be approved.
http://www.rcgmichigan.catylist.com/...2_IMG_2473.JPG http://www.rcgmichigan.catylist.com/...nsing-MI-48901 In any case, this now it goes through the typical council process. The building will include 1 one-bedroom apartment in the basement, 1 one-bedroom and 1 two-bedroom apartment on the ground floor, and 2 two-bedroom apartments on the 2nd floor. The one-bedroom units will be 700 square feet, and the two-bedroom units will be 950 square feet. |
A different view of The Hub from yesterday:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DykxT6OX4AEX6pV.jpg Steve Japinga It's feeling like the two-floor McDonald's may be living on borrowed time if this portends the ultimate fate of East/Cedar Village. BTW, it seems that construction has been delayed on Park District at the other end of downtown after some new renderings were dug up showing a design that differed from the site plans. Apparently, there was more brick and less glass than shown on the original renderings and the site plan which really seemed to have bothered some on council. The zoning code says that whatever's built has to substantially follow what's in the site plans, and now there is some debate over what substantial means. |
A first look at the dual-brand hotel going up at as part of the Red Cedar Renaissance project on the border of Lansing with East Lansing. The building will include a full-service Hyatt Centric on the east and a extended-stay residential Hyatt House on the west:
http://meyersarchitects.com/wp-conte...astLansing.jpg Nothing specially architecturally, but it will be nice to have a nice hotel in the Frandor area. The rest of the project includes at least 200 market-rate residential units (including a senior village), 1,200 beds of student living space, retail and restaurant space, and a public park and amphitheatre actually taking up most of the site. |
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Some updates from yesterday: https://twitter.com/CityofEL/status/1094980513645953029 The Hub https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzImNdxWsAAJvuJ.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzImS2TWkAAnV6Z.jpg Landmark https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzImZS-WkAACk1N.jpg Park District https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzImg3zWwAEjaRU.jpg So I'm guessing Park District is under construction, now? |
Well, it looks like the developer was in fact able to work out the issue the city had with their site plan. From late January:
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