Allison Slater

Inflation, probably.

It's because you belong at Applebee's. But honestly, it's a 1 mile stretch between crosswalks. There's a large housing development right in the middle now. Whether Applebee's or not, there's businesses on the other side, and bus stops, too. It's a step forward in an attempt to take a suburban hellscape and make it at least a little more walkable.

Like a steam pig!

I see four entrances and exits, and considering the shape and placement of the property they're working with, it seems pretty well connected where they can make connections. I remember when Celadon New Town was being developed, and people here seemed to hold it up as an example of good design and a model for future development moving forward. They both have disconnected buildings. They both have limited entrances/exits. They both have single-family detached housing. They both have curving, winding streets that don't form a grid. The only real difference I see is that one development is a larger scale, is located further out in the suburbs, and has a little more parking than the other. I'm not a fan of perfect being the enemy of good.

"Suburban garbage" is, to me, giant stroads with giant pavement-expansive parking lots and big box stores completely separated from residential single-family-detached-only neighborhoods that are too far away from any business to reasonably walk. This development has smaller parking lots broken up with trees, it has mixed use at all, the mixed use is walkable from the rest of the residential, which itself seems to have a variety of housing types. Does it look like something that would fit near downtown? No, and it doesn't need to be. It's the suburbs. For a suburban development, honestly, this looks really good and certainly not "garbage."

2nd most beautiful and affordable yet people are still finding themselves priced out of GR and instead going to Kalamazoo, Muskegon, etc.

Muskegon enters the chat

Listings are now appearing on Zillow for Adelaide Pointe, and some of them have renderings:

Just got granted $14 million from the strategic fund https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/muskegon/adelaide-pointe-revitalization-project-granted-14-million-from-michigan-strategic-fund/69-0baec174-e822-46ab-880a-86b4f2a1a8fb?fbclid=IwAR0du07TK-dKTEWaFsbh0lAJuZjo9yM_OvdNXK6Vy4gH2Q02bhW5DEe9qDA

Taken from The Lake House Waterfront Grille after viewing a home in Nelson neighborhood. I put in an offer on the house the next morning. Knowing this view was in walking distance kinda helped sell the house to me.

Wouldn't a BRT line (or light rail), if it happened, end up being funded by the airport and not by the rapid, like how the Laker Line (afaik) is funded by GVSU and not the Rapid? Like, is it the Rapid going "hey let's improve access to the airport" or the airport commissioning the Rapid to operate a line that the airport would want?

Hopson Flats already have only one window per apartment in 4 bedroom units.

Want? Nobody. Will take what they can get? Students, and anybody desperate for (assuming) more affordable housing. Which in this economy of rapidly rising rents, is going to be a lot.

Wasn't that a goal of Whitmer's, to better synchronize road and utility work to happen in one shot instead of one after the other? Or was that someone else? (Granted this road isn't even a state project anyway, but still something worth learning from, I'd think.)

I work for a tech company which was rapidly expanding its downtown gr office before the pandemic despite offering full remote options even before the pandemic. The office expansion didn't complete, the existing office was made even more spacious than it already was, and the company is still expanding regardless.. just instead of all my co-workers being in either GR or Maryland, now they're from GR, Maryland, Utah, Brazil, Ohio, Georgia, etc. It's became a primarily remote work company. I've been to the office physically only once in the last two years, and it was optional. And while some other companies are enacting "come to the office twice a week" rules and similar, pretty much all of the software devs I know of are passing those by for full remote jobs. The market is going to dictate where things go with remote work, and the market to me seems to be pushing for remote work. Only a few holdouts will remain that require on-site work, plus whatever jobs actually require one to be on-site as a nature of the work itself, like tech manufacturing.

20 floor buildings get downgraded to 12 all the time. Seems within character for 7500 seats to be downgraded to 5000.

Good for landlords. Bad for renters. Probably explains why my rent jumped by almost a third earlier this year. A lot of the decent rentals have waiting lists now.

Found out the hard way yesterday that this construction on 196 is also causing the closure of the Kent Trails under the highway.

I don't see the Apollo capsule in the rendering. I hope it's not going poof.

There's a company here in GR that does container buildings, I could be wrong but I think they're somewhere by Roger B. Chaffee Ave? https://gotblox.com

1913 is our first close-up look of the street in this Sanborn map. This puts the street North of where the Parcel mapper shows it (the alley on the right) and south of where Google Maps puts it (the alley on the left.) It seems all that remains of the street to this day is a driveway.

It first appears in the 1895 Sanborn map as "Mohrhards Ct.", lining up perfectly with More St. which also first appears in this map. Today, this isn't where More St. is. The west end of it matches, but it angles downward to where this map shows Flat St, and Flat St. west of Highland Park is now More St. https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4114gm.g04023189501/?sp=1&r=0.465,0.569,0.424,0.277,0

Interestingly, this area seems to be adjacent to, but not a part of the Mohrhardt addition, according to this 1888 Sanborn map. And the railroad seems to predate the street.

While the plot map shows it in place of the Bradford Alley, Google Maps shows it further north, close to where More St. would be if it continues. Mohrhardt when pronounced, it's first syllable is synonymous with "More." Perhaps it was originally one stretch of street with More St., but was cut off by the railroad when built, and one end ended up becoming just "More St." (which seems a very odd name for a street).

I'd predict a few office -> residential conversions starting in a couple years also, although not many, and probably limited to the smaller buildings that offer office space.