Lansing-East Lansing, MI Development

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Originally Posted by LMich

Another shot from March 27:


City of East Lansing

JUDAS PRIEST. I really hope they don't tear anything else down.

[LMich]

This one opened late last year, but it's ground floor tenant is opening up next month. The 565 Building, a 36-unit apartment building (the latest phase of Stone House village) on Grand River across from the Broad, will house the Broad Art Lab, an extension of the museum.


City of East Lansing

[subterranean]

Major improvement over the historic Taco Bell.

[LMich]

Don't think anyone ever did an update on Sparrow's Plaza Building (which includes Sparrow's Herbert-Herman Cancer Center and Thoracic Cardiovascular Institute) on Michigan that opened last July:


Lansing Chamber

The former cancer center was across the street in a lower level in the main hospital. The new spot allows for more room and also includes a few retail spots for businesses related to cancer treatment. Traffic-wise, they finally ended up adding two traffic signals at the entrances to the hospital and the professional complex on the other side of the street and thus dedicated crosswalks.

[LMich]

Weekly EastLansingBuzz update: April 27

Center City: First major elevated deck pour took place last monday.



The Hub: First major crane has been constructed, the second tower crane comes next week or the week after. Piles are being drilled and footings poured for the foundation.



https://www.eastlansingbuzz.org/sing...Update-4-27-18

[LMich]

Already up to the third story on Center City. Along with concrete pours, a lot of the work is shifting to Albert Avenue to the upgrading of underground utilities and the reconstruction of the street and sidewalks, which will leave Albert closed for six weeks between Grove and Abbot. This also includes some upgrades of the Grove, Charles and Division Street parking garages. Basically, everyone along Albert is going to have a tough time for awhile.

At The Hub down the street they got through construction the sidewalk cover last week as they've continued to work on the foundation. The big thing this week is the start of the construction of the second tower crane, today.


East Lansing Buzz

[deja vu]

Exciting stuff. I might pass through Lansing later this week and stop by to check it out.

[DetroitSky]

Two photos I took on May 6

Center City District's senior apartment building


It appears to me that the YMCA Building demolition has begun for the Metro Place development. The windows are all out since I last saw it and there were dumpsters full of drywall and stuff in the parking lot to the right in this photo.

[LMich]

The Lansing City Pulse had a kind of profile piece on local developer Pat Gillespie this week. Not much news is revealed (they talk about some property he purchased just east across from the stadium in between Larch and Pere Marquette, his plans for the corner of Larch & Michigan), but something I'm sure everyone in Lansing was happy to hear did come up in quotes:

Don’t expect Gillespie’s next phases of development to be crayon-colored like his recent developments, he said.

“I think those crayons are dull,” he said. “I am putting them away.”

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Praise Jesus.

[deja vu]

Haha. Well color me happy to hear that.

[LMich]

The Rotary Club of Lansing has bought the naming rights to the River Trail between the Lansing Center and the Shiawassee Street bridge, and will redesign it. It will include a sanded area - based off of Campus Martius in downtown Detroit in the summer - an "electric forest", which is the coolest part to me, and they will utilize the area beneath the bridge as a concert venue. This actually isn't a new idea rather an reintroduction. The festivals used to use the area under the old bridge for food vendors and such back in the 80's and 90's.

Riverfront park near Lansing Center to include fireplace, concert space

By Haley Hansen, Lansing State Journal

May 11, 2018

LANSING — The downtown riverfront is one step closer to a long-awaited makeover.

The Rotary Club of Lansing Foundation has pledged $400,000 to The Community Foundation for the naming rights to a new park stretching from the Lansing Center to the Shiawassee Street Bridge.

The central location downtown and proximity to the Michigan Capitol building makes the riverfront an an appealing investment, said Nicholas Heriford, president of the Rotary Club of Lansing Foundation.

“We thought this would be an important place in our community," he said. “Hopefully this is a space that attracts all the different demographics in our city and community."

This should all be completed by next summer. This is part of a much larger initiative begun months ago that will comparmentalize all of the park space between Old Town in the north and Cherry Hill Park in the south and make the whole riverfront a more active meeting space.

[LMich]

An event was held on Ann Street Plaza in downtown East Lansing, yesterday, that got all of the people and organizations that got Center City off the ground. Anyway, a picture from the event kind of gives an idea of how much Ann Street Plaza is becoming the center of downtown it was meant to be.


MI Place

Target folks were out to view construction of their downtown store:


Kelly Tabaczynski

In Lansing, I passed the site of Provident Place at Michigan and Hayford, yesterday. I noticed the parking lot of the existing buildings were torn up. Not entirely sure if this is prep work for the apartment/retail building or utility work, but it should be starting soon. Also, totally forgot about this one. Delta Solar Park, which will be the second largest solar array in the state, will be completed this summer. It will have a capacity of 24MW, which will help the Lansing Board of Water and Light reach its energy goals.


Lansing BWL

It's being built next door to GM's Lansing Delta Township plant.

[LMich]

Detroit: 675,480 673,104 -2,376 -0.35
Grand Rapids: 196,251 198,829 2,578 1.31
Warren: 135,030 135,022 -8 -0.01
Sterling Heights: 132,334 132,631 297 0.22
Ann Arbor: 120,713 121,477 764 0.63
Lansing: 115,797 116,986 1,189 1.03
Clinton Twp.: 100,385 100,712 327 0.33

https://www.freep.com/story/news/201...rop/633602002/

The city's population growth has been accelerating in recent years. Might end the decade gaining all that we lost last decade. Really, they might even be underestimating things. In the rest of the state, Detroit's loss has continued to slow to a relative trickle, and it looks like Grand Rapids will break the 200,000 at the next estimate.

[LMich]

Some projects getting started in the next few weeks...

Provident Place: Site prep work has begun at the 2200 east block of Michigan Avenue in Lansing. This one is just down the street from The Venue and is also being built by The Gillespie Company. Provident Place will include 33 apartments, and 9,500 square feet of ground floor commercial space. Official kick-off will be on the 29th.


The Gillespie Company



Esker Square: Also by The Gillepsie Company, this one is located in Holt, a southern suburb, and will include 60 apartments and 28,000 square feet of ground floor retail space.


Lauren Marin


Lauren Marin

[LMich]

Downtown Okemos: After two failed attempts to redevelop downtown Okemos in Meridian Township, the township recently passed a change to its zoning that would make urban developments easier in the designated cores of the township. At $100 million, this is the biggest yet of the proposed redevelopments.

Douglas J, True North Development plan to invest $100 million in downtown Okemos

By Haley Hansen, Lansing State Journal

May 24, 2018

OKEMOS — Douglas J has teamed up with a developer to revive long-awaited redevelopment plans for downtown Okemos.

A proposed $100 million development plan — which would be done in phases — would include the site of the former Traveler's Club and Tuba Museum, the current Douglas J building as well as the western corners of Hamilton and Okemos Road.

The sites will likely have a mix of retail, office space and residential units either for rent or for sale, developer Will Randle said, as Douglas J and True North Development announced the beginning stages of the plans Thursday.

A new Douglas J site will be the anchor development, Randle said, and the first phase of construction could potentially have 100 housing units. Cleanup on the site could start was early as this fall with construction beginning in the spring, though the developer has not yet submitted plans to the township.

[LMich]

The second tower crane at The Hub joining its first crane and the crane at Center City. I didn't realize until I drove down Grand River from Lansing how impressive a view it is at the top of the hill going down toward the intersection with Michigan. You catch all three cranes against the sky.

Anyway, May 25:


EastLansingBuzz


EastLansingBuzz

On Center City they are continuing their concrete pours floor by floor. This week will also be cutting and capping the existing water main in the alley, which will affect service in the nearby buildings for a few hours. They'll be doing this very early in the morning, though, to minimize the effect. On The Hub, they are nearly done with the foundation, and the stairway and elevator cores are already rising.

Little project in Lansing I had no idea was going on. Lansing Art Path is getting a new piece of art beneath the Shiawassee Street Bridge.


Nate Scramlin

Art Path is a program by the Lansing Art Gallery that provides matching funds (courtesy the Michigan Economic Development Corporation) for creating public art along the Lansing River Trail.



Speaking of public art, love how much Portrait of a Dreamer is adding to the landscape in its first summer.


Downtown Lansing

[LMich]

The Capitol Infrastructure Upgrage project (CIU) is a lot more involved than originally sold. Originally reported about as if it was just the digging up the west lawn for geothermal wells, the project actually includes multiple parts:

1. The geothermal field on the west lawn, the central utility plant (CUP) under the south side of the square. The CUP will centralize the plumbing and mechanical systems, most of which are located around various parts of the building and in the subbasement.

2. The generator vault under the northwest part of the square and the expanded north underground annex on the north-central part of the square. The expanded north underground annex will allow for all capitol facilities staff to have office space and some of the electrical equipment currently in the subbasement will go here, too, as well as expanded storage space. The generator vault is pretty self-explanatory.

Central Utility Plant (CUP) - May 2


MI State Capitol

Geothermal Field - April 9


MI State Capitol

Generator Vault and CUP - January 3


MI State Capitol


MI State Capitol

[LMich]

Just outside the city, Harvest Park continues to rise.

Matthew Dae Smith | Lansing State Journal

Marijuana business park lures companies to Windsor Township

By Eric Lacy, Lansing State Journal

May 30, 2018

WINDSOR TWP. — A nearly 130-acre medical marijuana business park that investors hope will be the largest east of the Mississippi River is starting to take shape.

It's called Harvest Park, near two major highways, and could put pressure on other investors in the state and beyond to get moving on their own commercial marijuana projects.

“Anybody that we’re competing with right now, they can’t claim what we can claim over here," said Jeff Donahue, Harvest Park's managing director.

Harvest Park is expected to occupy two parcels of land at Lansing and Creyts roads, east of General Motors' Lansing Delta Assembly plant.

Lansing's Board of Water & Light is working with private investors and is expected to have the first 62 acres of Harvest Park accessible to electricity and water in a couple months.

“I’ve never had a deal move this fast that’s this big in my career," said BWL General Manager Dick Peffley, who is a 40-year employee of the utility.

This is just down the street from the Michigan State Police Headquarters and training academy.

[LMich]

It appears an addendum was added to the council packet for the Monday Committee of the Whole meeting, where they took up the development agreement for Red Cedar Renaissance on the eastside. After being downsized in the last iteration of the agreement, it looks like they have significantly increased the number of market rate apartments. Here are all of the changes:

1. The number of rooms in the dual-brand hotel has been increased from 250 to 264.

2. There has been a huge increase in market-rate housing from 170 units to 298. This really speaks to the project going back to original roots, where there was much less student housing.

3. The senior village at the corner of Clippert and Michigan has a very modest increase from 112 units to 116.

4. Finally, there has been a slight reduction in units for student apartments from 1,248 beds to 1,222.

The newer site plan shows that instead of the market-rate apartments being in one interconnected building that they are now in two. Also, the hotel's footprint gets smaller with a water feature extending all the way up to Michigan Avenue, now. I'll be interested in seeing how the re-expansion of the project is rendered.