The ~15 year saga of the City Center II/Michigan Museum Place/Park District plan may finally be coming to a conclusion. The original developer finally lost the properties to foreclosure earlier this year and a Chicago based developer has bought the properties. They have proposed a 12 floor building at the northwest corner of Grand River and Abbot with 153 hotel rooms and 179 apartments along with commercial space, there will also be an 8 floor 175 unit apartment/condo building and 7 floor 600 space parking ramp on Evergreen.
Plans for East Lansing hotel, luxury apartments expanded
While there's not much news on the Red Cedar Renaissance itself, details on the accompanying drain project are becoming clear. There will be numerous water features, public art pieces and natural areas:
The Art of Clean Water - City Pulse
Watershed Moment - City Pulse
Ranney Park:
There's a reasonably sized development slated for the northeast corner of Larch & Shiawassee. The development will consist of two 4 floor 77 unit buildings. Details are sparse now but a site plan was available in planning board documents:
It's in the very, very early planning stages, but MSU is considering partnering with Mclaren to build a new hospital adjacent to campus. The new hospital would be located on non-campus university owned land near Forest and Collins. Mclaren would shutter its Pennsylvania campus and move it to the new location, MSU's primary motivation is to have a teaching hospital for their College of Osteopathic Medicine, although it sounds likely more programs would be included.
MSU, McLaren in discussions to build a teaching hospital southwest of campus - City Pulse
Also of note, two new hotels proposed for Eastwood. There will be a 143 room, 7 floor Holiday Inn
(below) and a 139 room, 7 floor Hilton Homewood Suites constructed near the recently complete Hyatt Place on Showtime Drive. Both hotels could begin construction by the end of the year.
I haven't gotten out to take pictures in quite awhile, but all the area construction projects have progressed well. The 300 W Grand River project in East Lansing is complete; Skyvue and the Sparrow Cancer Center in Lansing are topped out with facade work underway; all but one of the buildings at MSU's 1855 Place are topped out while several are finished and occupied; construction will begin soon on East Town Flats (Michigan & Clemens) and Stonehouse Village IV (Grand River & Bailey).