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Originally Posted by deja vu
^ Kzoo has done similar things recently with converting under-performing ground floor retail spaces into apartments. I wouldn't want to live adjacent to the sidewalk, but I suppose there are people who don't mind it. In the Kzoo ones I'm thinking of (next to the downtown AMC) they put privacy film on most of the ground floor windows, ostensibly to deter looky-loos. Effectively, your entire apartment becomes lit by diffuse light through translucent windows. Maybe not so bad, but I would want to be able to look outside without the concern of people always looking in.
It will be interesting to see the effects of the proposed parking rule changes, whether intended or not.
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This is far enough west of downtown where you won't get
a lot of regular foot traffic on Grand River if folks looking at it have those concerns, but also where you have enough foot traffic that there won't be people lingering without getting noticed pretty quickly.
But quite honestly, I think since they'll be efficiency units - three on Grand River and three on the back side - they'll be snapped up by students in a second. Demand for downtown and near-downtown units have taken off in the past fove or so years, which is why you see all of the construction all of a sudden.
This is right across the street from the Delta neighborhood (where Grand River and Michigan meet), which save for some neighborhood retail is largely a student ghetto, so this conversion of the space to residential will actually be more in harmony with the surrounding zoning. It's currently the last parcel of land on the north side of Grand River zoned for commercial use before you hit the Lansing border. In the southside of Grand River there are fewer than a handful of businesses zoned to the west for neighborhood comercial uses and then it's all residential until you hit the border.
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