Allison Slater
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Globally, sure. But also take into account population location shifts. Birth rate has been low in the US for a while now I think? But population growth continues to increase due to immigration. As climate change takes hold, perhaps you'll see better housing availability in future undesirable locations like Florida, but continued housing shortages in areas that do relatively better in a global warming scenario like Michigan. Can kinda see this between GR and Detroit, or even Detroit and Detroit Suburbs. Housing shortages throughout the suburbs, great housing availability in Detroit proper. Can also see this in Japan, which has been experiencing population decline for a while. Tokyo continues to grow despite declining country-wide population as the rural towns are practically giving houses away and still losing population.
I'd guess GR won't be worrying about population decline for a very long time.
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On 9/13/2023 at 12:01 PM, arcturus said:
It makes you wonder if economic circumstances are such that we're becoming more a nation of renters to buyers with an ever increasing amount of low income subsidies to fulfill the growing demand.
Considering that a lot of entry level housing is being bought up by land management companies to be turned into rentals, and a lot of new home construction (and even entire developments) in many parts of the country are being purpose built as rental homes.. yes, yes we are definitely becoming a nation of renters instead of homeowners. The American Dream is on its deathbed. In Muskegon I can see four houses built within the past year. All four are rentals. I can also see a handful of older housing stock, half of which are rentals. Granted, I do live a handful of blocks outside of downtown.
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Choo choo grill is apparently closing
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Bamboo can quickly get out of control and take over an area and for that reason is considered an invasive species that is advised against planting.
+1 on the cap of 96 though. A park connecting Michigan St and Belknap would be lovely.
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I was convinced Lyon Square and Calder Plaza were both dead plans, things had been so silent on them both for so long.
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And a big development at Market/Fulton, new tall skyscraper, subway to the airport, and a giant statue in the style of the statue of liberty dedicated to some guy named Faust to complete a two-decade-old joke.
1 hour ago, WMrapids said:Three words; hydrogen power plant.
Honestly, commuter rail connecting the three cities:
- GRR - Grand Rapids - Walker - Coopersville - Fruitport - Muskegon
- GRR - Grand Rapids - Grandville - Hudsonville - Zeeland - Holland
- Saugatuk - Holland - Grand Haven - Muskegon - Whitehall
Tram / Streetcars (Major stops listed, with minor stops between):
- Millennium Park - John Ball Zoo - GVSU - Downtown GR - East Hills - Easttown - East GR
- North Muskegon - Downtown Muskegon - Adelaide Point - Lakeside / Lake Express Ferry - Pere Marquette Beach
With this, one could go to a couple different beaches, go to Milwaukee, hit all of the major festivals in the region, without ever once using a car.
And then restore some of the ornamentation that's been missing from a lot of historic buildings in GR for almost a century. If there's anything left, rebuild the old city hall as a community center somewhere in the city.
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I appreciate that your finger is helping to point at where the digging is happening. Thank you, Cookin_peacocks' finger! /j
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Comparing it with other projects that could be done in Grand Rapids, I suppose there there could be better projects. But if they're targeting this for West Michigan, and looking at Muskegon as a location.. West Michigan is more than just Grand Rapids. Something like this would probably be huge for Muskegon as it slowly transforms from a rust belt to a tourism focus, and can help drive demand in the future for regional transit connections between the big three cities.
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Well that's mildly annoying
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It was a bit weird walking through that fence and gate to get in, and being inside seemed a bit confusing, with an unstaffed counter at the front door, going to a table, seeing a QR code to scan for ordering online on the table, and then a waitress coming over to take my order. But the food was good.
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Noticed Icon on Bond looking a bit interesting last week
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Noticed those elevator shafts can be seen from parts of Alpine by I-96. This is going to be a bit more prominent than I'd have guessed.
Blurry pic time
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Is that concrete going to be painted / clad in something or are they going for the grand castle concrete wall look?
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5 hours ago, Cookin_peacocks said:
Do you have details on this?
I don't, I wasn't there. It happened while I was taking a break from my booth. But I heard about it from others who were working my booth in the meantime who saw it first-hand.
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On 6/17/2023 at 4:15 PM, GR_Urbanist said:
Tons of people at the pride festival on Ottawa, and lots of spillover onto Monroe Center
But conversely, there was also a protester there who assaulted someone at Pride. Security stepped in really quickly, but these kinds of things are going to stick in people's minds.
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Reminds me a lot of Round 1, which was supposed to open at Rivertown in 2020 but 2020 happened and those plans disappeared completely instead of being delayed.
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After moving to Muskegon, and looking at the connections and flights out of Muskegon, I realized pretty quickly I'd probably just be using GRR. I'm guessing many other Muskegonites have figured the same. Manistee is a bit further and they may be a little less likely to drive to GRR for a flight.
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We've gone from downsizing tall buildings to under 12 floors.. to downsizing 10 story buildings to 0 floors.
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Prankster is right in that it's all about perception. I had to challenge this perception issue in myself only recently, when I was looking at Muskegon for affordable homes. I'd always perceived Muskegon to be a dangerous place. But it turned out the crime rate in Muskegon is lower than in Grand Rapids, and if I was okay with being in Grand Rapids, I should be okay with being in Muskegon.
When it makes the news that Grand Rapids is having to shut down bridges at night for safety, that contributes to a bad perception. When does anyone ever hear of parts of Kentwood or Wyoming being shut down for safety?
When we hear about crime happening downtown, it doesn't bother us much, because we are used to downtown and have been given a perception of safety downtown through experience. It doesn't matter that driving downtown is more dangerous than being downtown, people who drive a lot have a certain perception of safety with driving through experience.
But does all of this even matter? I have a perception that downtown isn't as safe as it was 10 years ago, but I still go downtown. Clearly many others are, too, considering numbers continue to increase. Is perception something that should be tackled? Probably. Is it a crisis? Probably not.
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All aboard the Airport Craptle Express!
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Wow that feels like fast progress. Feels like only a week ago it was still a drab grey building? I guess it doesn't take long to paint and a paint job can go a long way
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I've heard Dr. Rolf's BBQ is building a second restaurant (not sure the cuisine) across the street with rooftop dining. Construction on the roof is already visible.
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12 hours ago, gvsusean said:Belong at Applebees?
It was their advertising jingle for a while.
12 hours ago, gvsusean said:You must not have been to Wyoming in a while…. If you think Wyoming is going in the right direction, then I have a bridge to nowhere to sell you (oh wait thats what they are doing).
I was just there last weekend. Lived in Wyoming a month ago. Compared to the empty lot that came before it there, adding housing and more frequent pedestrian connections.. how is that not in the right direction? Just because you don't like the way it looks? Come on now, stop being such a negative nancy.
12 hours ago, gvsusean said:We dont need bridges, we need better planning.
Sure. Let's just demolish the entirety of the city of Wyoming and rebuild it from scratch in accordance to your ideal planned utopia.
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This is exciting! Really glad I moved to Muskegon, it's really feeling like GR did in the naughts. Really looking forward to that kayak launch, too. Don't currently see many kayaks in the lake.