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I wish the stadium was symmetrical.
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I just dropped a whole months salary on a new Canon and a couple of lenses and filters, as I try to rekindle my photography hobby again this summer.
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A skyline shot earlier today...
Great shot, I love the sky.
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ok, I'm a moron and put this in the wrong thread. Sorry.
Taken this last weekend;
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Nice photos!
Somehow I don't think I've ever seen a photo of the Wayne County Building/Comerica Tower like that.
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Hey Detroiters!
I'm a Lansing guy but I was in town last weekend, here are some pics;
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We've had some nice warm nights around here so I took a night ride the other day;
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Thanks sabatoa! That's the one. I love the little turret on the upper left corner. The way it was preserved and is kind of shoved between a bunch of new taller buildings reminds me of some areas of Chicago.
Apparently the architect, Darius Moon, designed over 260 structures in Lansing and East Lansing.
Sabatoa, did you get a chance to see the capitol grounds?
Getting around wasn't too bad LMichigan. I grew up in Lansing so I know it pretty well (although I don't remember the Lansing Women's Club).
Oh, I do too. Whenever I walk by this building I always stop and take a second to admire it. Like you, I really like the "Old World meets the modern era" contrast this building brings.
I was on the grounds a few days ago but I didn't notice the ladscaping.
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Here are some pictures I took today of the building in question;
Here is the text from the historical placard next to the door:
"In 1890, the Lansing Women's Club completed construction of its club jome, a two-story red brick building located at 118 West Ottawa STreet in Downtown Lansing. In the same year, the Michigan Millers Insurance COmpany constructed next door at 120 West Ottawa a two-stroy brick building designed by Darius Moon. In 1911, the club added the theird floor and an elevator at 118 West Ottawa.
Between 1980-1999, while Bill Ralls practiced law here, Rosemary and Bill Ralls renoavted and restored these buildings to their current historic condition. Thus, they preserved them for the people of Lansing and placed them on the Federal Register of Historic Buildings in the United States. Today the buildings, which are ownded by Gary Granger and Jeff McAlvey, are the home of the Lighthouse."
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I could be mistaken but I don't think he meant the Hollister building. I think he means the old building (and very cool looking) that houses Beaners on the ground floor, it's on Ottawa Street one building down from Capitol Ave. It's ajacent to the building that spans Ottawa, with the pretty multicolor glass.
If I get a chance I'll get a pic today.
Great pics of the Hollister, I love the look back to the original designs.
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At first, I was sad to see them go, but most other areas of the country shed these jobs long ago, and built themselves up for the new economy. Most of this nation has deindustrialized. Lansing and Michigan's future is not in manufacturing, anymore. Lansing is lucky for MSU, the State government, and healthcare.
As of 2005, these were the largest employers, and, I believe this was before the shuttering of Lansing Metal Center and the Craft Centre:
State of Michigan: 14,355
Michigan State University: 10,500
General Motors Corporation: 6,300
Sparrow Health System: 6,000
Lansing Community College : 3,180
Ingham Regional Medical Center: 2,500
Lansing Public School District: 2,106
Meijer: 2,000
Auto-Owners Insurance: 1,500
Peckham, Inc.: 1,400
Jackson National Life: 1,393
Ingham County: 1,258
City of Lansing: 1,240
United States Postal Service: 1,200
Wal-Mart: 1,185
Dart Container Container: 1,144
I was also surprised as of the 2000 census that manufacturing only made up something like 11% of Lansing's industry. We'd been on the deindustrial track for much longer than people realized, and we've always been lucky to have a rather diversified economy split pretty evenly between government, higher education, and manufacturing. The challenge, now, is finding new economy industries to replace the atrophied auto manufacturing sector of the economy. That's happening with the growth of companies such as Bioport, NeoGen, Nio-Wave...all setting up, here, in the central city.
This should be viewed as a good thing. Not in many decades has Lansing had such an amount of prime land to develop. This is not to mention how much better the environment around the neighborhood will be. The Westside neighborhood had complained for years of paints fumes being leaked, and the long-term health effects have yet to be known.
Funny, between me and my wife we currently work at 3 of the places on that list.
While the SimCity fanatic in me is thrilled with a clean slate to build on in the middle of the city, I can't help but think I will be disappointed with whatever replaces the factories.
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Those first pics of the old Fisher Body plant are excellent. From where did you take them? It almost looks like you took them from one of the Capitol Commons towers.
The graffiti really sums up a lot of people's sentiments in this community. I wonder why GM didn't try to sell off Oldsmobile, or did they ever?
You nailed it, it was taken from the Capitol Commons Center at Pine and Kalamazoo.
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Here are some photos of the GM plant demolitions for our out of area Lansingites:
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Nope. For every one of these photos I've posted who's taken it.
Sorry, I missed the little MichSt tag under the photo.
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I got bored the night before the Valentines Day snow;
One of the makeshift observation decks I make out of parking garages.
Some beater left on the road in Old Town.
The guy riding this bike in Old Town that night must have been freezing. The wind was NASTY.
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Archie Ross, my stadium! I love it. It sounds like you went there, when did you graduate?
Go Vikes!
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It's a good picture, I'm just not a big fan of farming communities.
Ditto. Give me the city every time.
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It's been awhile since I've been on the board, I need to get some pics up. Lmich, you found excellent photos of downtown from 496. I'm impressed someone got that elusive shot. Every time I see your posts I get a little laugh out of it because the thoughts and opinions behind them mirror mine so much.
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Fourth of July fireworks weren't that great but it gave me an excuse to take pics.
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Has anyone seen this "rendering" or the Ranney Building? It's from Signature Associates.
I have not but I like it.
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Hood, there really isn't so much going on which is why I haven't taken pictures in awhile.
I may get over to the Arbaugh and the Prudden Factory. On the Arbaugh, the rebuilt cornice is now complete, and looks GREAT lit at night. It's starting to look very cosmpolitan. I hope that something can be done with Washington south of the 400 block, because it's a horrible entrance into a reviving downtown.
The Prudden is finally getting new windows! I was surprised to see that they went with the retro glass, that resembles the gridded glass you'd see on the old factories in Detroit. I thought they were going to go with the modern, reflective glass, but they didn't, and I'm glad.
Also, has anyone else noticed that the skyline is more christmas trees than there ever were. Here are some new locations along with old locations:
1. Sparrow Hospital - They've always had the Christmas decorations and they are looking great as ever.
2. Old Blue Coyote Brewery - This loft building on Pere Marquette Place has a lit Christmas Tree on it's rooftop deck.
3. Prudden Factory - right on the northwestern corner along the Saginaw Street underpass stands a lit tree that you can see for a few miles coming east downtown Saginaw.
4. Cooley Center - I don't know if I'm seeing things, but I swear at night I see an unlight Christmas Tree on the main roof deck of Cooley Center next to the mechanical penthouse on the northeast corner.
Speaking of Christmas trees, did they put on up in Old Town of Friday night?
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Nice, again! I wish my camera was good enough to get such pictures. I find it hard to keep up on this, since so few people respond.
Thanks
Unfortunately I left the camera in the back seat of an unlocked car...needless to say, I'm in the market for a new digi cam. I'm always on the lookout for things/places in Lansing that would make a good photo.I noticed that once I got caught up on all the posts, keeping caught up was no problem since the activity level here is lower than I thought. The information here is priceless though.
That's one of my favorite views. (see my avatar )That awesome, the day view.
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That's a great shot. I wish I could get access to that location to shoot.