A decision at tomorrow’s East Lansing City Council meeting could revitalize the underused buildings on the west side of downtown. After a summer of deliberation, the city council is set to recommend either DTN Management Co. or Lurvey White Ventures as the private development partner for the Park District project, formerly known as City Center II.
The annual Big Ten Emergency Managers conference, entitled “2013 Big Ten Emergency Managers Conference, Strategic Partnerships in Emergency Planning,” kicked off this morning at the Henry Executive Center.
Whole Foods Market, the eighth-largest food and drug store in the U.S., will open a new location in the East Lansing area in 2015. Founded in Austin, Texas in 1980, with a staff of 19 people, Whole Foods will build its newest Michigan location on East Grand River Avenue, engulfing the space currently home to Velocipede Peddler, 2758 E.
The annual International Bath Tub Races held in Bath, Mich., is much more than a series of tubs on wheels flying down Main Street. For Bath residents, it’s war. The bath tub races, one event out of the many during the Bath Days Festival, was held Saturday, drawing a crowd of 2,000-3,000 spectators. JD Larner, MC for the event and a lifelong Bath resident, said the races, a beloved Bath tradition, began in the early 1980s. There are a few rules as to what a tub used in the race can feature.
For years, when policymakers were asked how they would protect the public, the answer was to put more people behind bars. Although this policy applied to the entire nation, Michigan saw the effects more than most states. The effect was an explosion in prison populations and, in turn, an explosion in the budget for correctional facilities, MSU economics professor Charles Ballard said.
Whole Foods Market has announced plans to open an East Lansing establishment in 2015.
While the internal combustion engine fundamentally changed lives for individuals in the 1900s, faculty and students at MSU are working to bring about another monumental technological advancement for the 21st century through work with hybrid and electric cars.
Woven Arts, located at 325 Grove St., is one of the “hidden gems” for Lansing’s knitters, weavers, crocheters and spinners, according to Lansing resident Kathy Scieszka, who has been an active knitter there for a while. The store, however, offers more than hand-painted and hand-spun yarns. For many it offers a sense of community.
Even with elections more than a year away, Republicans and Democrats within Michigan are gearing up for fierce races across the state in 2014. With at least 29 guaranteed open seats in the House and all 38 Senate positions up for grabs, as well as a contentious battle for governor, leaders from both parties say they already are preparing their pitches to prospective voters. While Republicans currently control the Legislature, Lon Johnson, chairperson of the Michigan Democratic Party, believes his party has the potential to make significant gains in the next election. With a platform focused on restoring education funding across the state, as well as ensuring an equitable tax system, Johnson said his party has a strong pitch for voters. “All the way from governor to drain commission, we’re going to talk about how to keep people in Michigan,” he said. Johnson also emphasized his party’s efforts to educate voters on the recent cuts to business taxes to the tune of $1.8 billion, the cost of which he maintains has been passed onto working families and pensioners. Darren Littell, the communications director for the Michigan Republican Party, said his party will focus on fiscal issues and illustrating the progress made during the past four years. “(We’re going to) make the case to voters on how much of an improvement has been made,” Littell said. Michigan ranked fourth in the nation for capital investments in 2012, something Littell believes demonstrates the success of Gov.
While you were catching rays at the pool this summer, construction has been underway to bolster the Greater Lansing restaurant selection. Eastwood Towne Center in Lansing Charter Township, will welcome Capital Prime Steak & Seafood in early September. “If you ask someone, ‘Where would you go to get a great steak?’ I don’t think there’s really a good answer to that right now,” Capital Prime Majority Owner Joseph Goodsir said.
East Lansing didn’t wait long to reinstate domestic partner benefits to same-sex couples after a federal judge ruled the ban unconstitutional.
Signs are everywhere in East Lansing and very few signs are pleasing to the eye. Often the signs contain routes of detours, construction chaos or simple speed limits, which occasionally trip people up. But for once, there is a yellow caution diamond sign, not to cause stress, but to generate a smile. That sign reads “This Is A Good Sign” and they are located across the nation, and even overseas.
The Charter Township of Meridian has reported a growth trend in the number of construction requests for single family residences. Associate Planner in the Department of Community Planning and Development at the Charter Township of Meridian, Peter Menser said the area has seen growing numbers in construction since the end of last year.
Welcome to the “Capital of Cool,” where ribbons are cut with teeth instead of ceremonial scissors. On Tuesday, Old Town in Lansing welcomed five new businesses, as well as two existing business that expanded or moved.
As the 2013-14 school year lingers on the horizon, DTN Management Co. is preparing to open one of East Lansing’s newest student housing establishments. 550 Michigan — no catchy apartment names here — is set to open its doors Aug. 1 as construction and inspections wrap up this week, Wolf River Development Company managing partner Mike Dowdle said.
While some people take the morning to sleep in, some local Lansing residents are up bright and early knitting and packaging items to help the homeless. Lansing residents, Emily Trumbull, 76, and Tilly Montaven, 71, both came together this morning at Trumbull’s home to knit, stuff and send out packages that contain items such as toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, sunscreen and shampoo, that will be sent to various shelters around the Lansing and East Lansing area. Before retiring years ago, Trumbull was a teacher and counselor for Riddle Elementary School and other surrounding Lansing area schools with Montaven as her assistant.
The Great Lakes could be in danger, environmentalists say, after a proposal to gut restoration funding by 80 percent cleared a U.S. House subcommittee last week.
Officers were dispatched to a residence in the 1000 block of Bensch Street after a male caller because of shots fired at him on Wednesday.
Could the banks of the Red Cedar feel the ripple effects of Detroit’s bankruptcy filing? That exact issue is something many in the area still are determining.