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The new Lansing City Market will soon be at the center-bottom of this photo:

For the love of all of us with slower connections, please shrink that photo, Hood. lol Center

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June 29, 2008

Thanks. Are both of the sections of the building under construction? BTW, I was able to find after doing some research that Metro 202 went from an apartment building by McKinley, to a hotel by First Hospitality Group which was shot down by the city, and back to an apartment building but this time with 88 units intead of 44 with First Hospitality still in ownership of the land. It must have been pretty recently, the change, because the article was dated just June 22. Speaking of McKinley, I don't think they are ever going to build Kingsley Lane Lofts, yet the developer still has a website for it, and the architects still have a profile page for the building on their site.

I recently found an Ann Arbor Business Review stating that the developer for Tierra on Ashley, the very green building, was scheduled to begin in May. Has anything yet been done with the site? Also, anything yet come of the North Quad development?

Hey, Does anyone know where I can find historic maps of the central city before all of the infill and reconstruction along the downtown riverfront?

Are you one of the investors?

So, the first five floors are parking, right? Also, is the roof also a leasable floor? It appears there may be some useable roof-top area.

Not sure if these have ever been posted, here, but Lansing's Christman Company recently redid their website and now have photos and renderings of their projects up: Not having checked back in here in awhile, I was surprised to see in the rendering the Secchia Center with so many floors.

Anyone notice the city put out and RFP (Request for Proposal) for the old Broadhead Army way out on Jefferson? It's on the riverfront. They seem to really be pushing that they want whatever developed there to keep the actual historical building intact: RFP for Broadhead Army (courtesy of DEGC)

If that were the case, it wouldn't explain why Detroit seems to be the only city experiecing an increase in household size. BTW, on issues of demographic change, I trust the ACS a lot more than I trust Censu Bureau estimates for population change. It seems to me that the ACS collects quite a bit more information for its task than the department of the Census Bureau that collects information for estimates.

Just for reference, some household size numbers for Detroit and Wayne County from 2000 and 2006 (estimate) according to the 2000 Census and 2006 American Community Survey: 2000 Detroit City: 2.77 Wayne County: 2.64 2006: Detroit City: 2.86 Wayne County: 2.70 How does this compare to 1990? I was surprised to see that it seems that Detroit (of the major cities) is one of the few experiencing an increase in household sizes.

I was trying to guess from where it was taken and the only thing I can think of is from the now-demolished stack of the Ottawa Street Station. The angle is a bit too high to have been taken from the buildings roof, which is shorter than the Grand Towers roof.

I've never seen the city from this view. It shows the core of the downtown area: David Trumpe - Link From Lansing Area Capital Gains online magazine: http://www.capitalgainsmedia.com/

Wolv, I've been trying to some time now to find the amount of vacant land in the city, but I think even the best numbers are probably estimates. I wonder if the number you speak of defined as "open space" includes parks? I've never been able to find a consistent measure that ranks cities on their vacant lands.

Yes, those have always been some of my favorite infill in the city. I'd wish that level of quality would have been the start and beginning in Midtown instead of places like Woodward Place.

Does anyone know where this shot was taken from? http://farm1.static.flickr.com/214/5083822...1a799fb.jpg?v=0 Actually, it looks like it may have been taken from some news studio tower.

Hey, I haven't been around here regularly since last summer. Can someone give me some updates/status on these projects? 1. The Gallery Luxury Flats: This is/was a proposal for the 400 north block of Main Street that was to include a 12-story residential tower. 2. Kingsley Lane Lofts: Kingsley & Ashley, 9-story residential tower 3. Metro 202: 200 south block of Division, 9-story residential tower 4. Glen Ann Place: last I heard of this was in July when it was finally approved. 5. Tierra on Ashley: 200 South Ashley, 8-story residential tower

It should be added that the reason the city signed it was becauses the owners of the hotel were giving the city doom-and-gloom about how if they didn't sign that the Radisson would go out of business and how they wouldn't be able to find another operator/chain to take its place. BTW, the non-compete concerning the "no tax break" clause ultimately dooms any future hotel, period, as no hotel is going to set up in downtown without being offered tax breaks. Very few projects get off the ground in any Michigan city without tax breaks, and a hotel would be no exception.

It's not just the only hotel downtown of any quality, it's the only hotel in downtown Lansing. This has always been a pet peeve of mine. Even dumpier and/or smaller cities have multiple downtown hotels. All of Lansing's brand hotels are literally at the edge of the city (i.e. Edgewood, Frandor) or outside of the city, altogether. Outside of the Deluxe Inn on Washington and 496, I can't think of any other hotels/motels in Lansing that aren't at the edge of the city. You'd really think there'd at least be one by Sparrow or something.

It's funny because I would have expected it to move much further than it has.

Even with the massive growth outstate since the 40's-50's, the population center of Michigan is still in the southeast of the state (in Shiawasee County between Flint and Lansing). I really like that the fair has the unique feeling of being a farmers convention of sorts in the heart of a major metropolitan area, where I was born put aside.

As someone born in Detroit, the fact that the state fair was moved to Detroit gives it a very unique feel, and unique in a good way. I wouldn't change it's location for anything. Michigan counties have done fine with their county fairs, anyway. Michigan State Capitol

msuschu, I noticed that on Sunday, and was excited. I'd always thought that those silly looking modern lights that line MLK didn't fit in with the historic lighting of the rest of the Capitol Loop and was wondering what took them so long to switch them over to these better lights. Not are they only aesthetically better, but they provide much better lighting, and thus decrease crime. I was also glad to see them replace all of the trees they'd cut down on MLK at the west edge of downtown, and see that they even went further in adding more. They will look really good when they mature in a few more decades. BTW, it's only a dream because I realize how expensive it is, but I've always wished that the city would require that telephone companies burying their lines along major thoroughfares, at least. I mean, driving up Larch, for instance is absolutely depressing as it is, but the sloppy wooden telephone poles that go along the entire length of the street are just terrible.