[LMich]

I'm sure you know how incestuous the developer/architect community is in this town. Studio Intrigue does "hip/trendy" with low-grade materials for cheap, so they are basically the only game in town for the time being. It's like the IKEA of Lansing architecture. I expect as higher-end development eventually comes, we'll start to see developers branching outside of town, but this wave of stuff hitting the urban area (Stadium District, Marketplace, Midtown, etc...) is going to be crappy looking between the cheap materials and the fact that they are always trying to mash as many faux-historic design elements as they can into one development.