Unique Partnership Kicks Off Restoration of Historic Eastside Lansing Homes
CAPITAL GAINS, 11/3/2010
Lansing Community College, the Allen Neighborhood Center (ANC) and the Ingham County Land Bank have partnered to form Restoration Works!, a neighborhood stabilization and home restoration project.
The project is centered on the restoration of two historic homes in Lansing’s Eastside, at 1501 and 1512 E. Kalamazoo Street. The two foreclosed homes are owned by the Land Bank and were scheduled for demolition before the partnership project came to fruition.
Restoration Works! is an effort to preserve the history of the homes, both longstanding in the neighborhood.
The restoration work will be done by LCC Environment, Design and Building Technologies Department (EDBT) students as part of LCC’s Technical Careers Division. Members of ANC’s Housing Caucus and LCC students will be giving tours of these houses on Nov. 4, after a 10:30 a.m. press conference.
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I live on this block and happy to see the partnership come up with a creative vision for these highly visible homes.