Source: Julian Stainback WILX
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - More affordable housing will be coming to Downtown Lansing.
The Lansing Housing Commission broke ground on two new apartment buildings: Riverview 220 and Grand Vista Place.
Riverview 220 will be built across the street from the CATA Transportation Center on South Grand Avenue. It will provide 56 apartments for low-income families as well as a retail space.
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - A restaurant chain in Lansing wants to make sure children in foster care can find their forever home.
Wendy’s in downtown Lansing is holding a donation drive to help benefit the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Dave Thomas is the founder of Wendy’s. The foundation is a non-profit that helps find adoptive families for children in the foster care system.
Source Joan Nelson via Lansing City Pulse
As we ponder our downtown these days, most of us think of government offices (drastically reduced by the exodus of 30,000 state workers since COVID); the traditional central business district with its slowly and steadily growing retail and restaurant offerings; emerging arts and entertainment entities (Grewal Hall and, under construction, the Ovation); well-regarded colleges such as LCC; and, most exciting, significant new residential development.
Source: Nick Manes via Crain’s Detroit Business
A slew of long-planned housing developments in Michigan’s capital city has expanded in scope over the last year and will now move forward with more than $200 million in state-backed financing.
Source: Mike Ellis via Lansing State Journal
LANSING — Michigan officials gave a green light Tuesday to the New Vision Lansing project, finalizing more than $200 million in tax and other incentives for the project, which covers the next 30 years.
Source: Nicholas Simon via WLNS
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding for major construction projects passed the final hurdle in Lansing, with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation saying the strategic funds will reshape the skyline of the city.
City leaders expect to see cranes in the air in the coming months, with the funds going towards the construction of shopping districts, a new skyscraper, and more than 550 new housing units—teh biggest change coming to the downtown area in a generation.
SOURCE: Lansing City Pulse
The new year will be one of transition.
Source: Amaya Kuznicki via WILX
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - A plan to bring more than 500 housing units to Downtown Lansing is one step closer to breaking ground. On Thursday, the city announced the Lansing Brownfield Redevelopment Authority approved the more than $300 million proposal.
Source: Jordyn Burrell with WILX
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Downtown Lansing Inc. has received over a million dollars from the state of Michigan to make improvements that will hopefully attract young people to move our city and stay here.
“Young people are leaving the state and young people from other places aren’t moving here,” said Ronald Fisher, Professor of Economics at Michigan State University.
Lansing, Mich. — The Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO) is announcing an award of $1,370,000 in grant funds to Downtown Lansing Inc. (DLI) through the Talent Investment Pilot program. The funds are a component of the fiscal year 2024 state budget supplemental appropriations administered by LEO and will be used to support streetscape improvements that help create the types of dense, walkable and vibrant city spaces sought after by younger generations of job seekers.
