Plans for East Lansing hotel, luxury apartments expanded

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2016/10/06/plans-east-lansing-hotel-luxury-apartments-expanded/91616416/

"The initial plans submitted by Convexity Properties in August did not comply with a new city zoning code that required senior housing or condos be included in certain downtown developments.  The code, adopted in February, requires any multi-family rentals built in B-3 zones downtown to consist of 50% owner-occupied condos or senior housing. It was an attempt to diversify downtown, but city officials are in the process of amending, lowering the requirement to 25% to make it less difficult to develop downtown.

Convexity’s updated site plan still places a 12-story hotel and apartments on the corner of Abbot Road and Grand River Avenue, at the current site of the abandoned Citizens Bank building. There would be retail space on the first floor, a ballroom on the second floor and a rooftop bar on the 12th floor. It would include 153 hotel rooms and 179 mixed-market apartments with one-, two- and three-bedroom units.  An underground parking level with more than 100 spaces would accommodate the hotel guests.

Behind it on Evergreen Avenue at the former site of Evergreen Arms Apartments, the company is proposing an eight-story building that would include senior housing or condos or both, a total of 175 apartments. The plan also includes a seven-story parking deck that would accommodate nearly 600 cars."

I've always thought a ballroom would go over really well downtown.

I'm sure that's exactly where Seniors want to live. Embrace your identity already EL.

I lived in Evergreen Arms, didn't realize it was gone.

Old people just off of campus. This will end well I'm sure.

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:I'm sure that's exactly where Seniors want to live. Embrace your identity already EL.

I lived in Evergreen Arms, didn't realize it was gone.

I'm guessing the inclusion of "senior housing" in the "senior housing or condos" is just spin to get the project pushed through. Unless there is some tax break for providing housing for senior citizens, I don't think there will be any shuffleboard courts on property.

I wonder where the 7 story parking deck will go. On Albert? Or down the road on Evergreen?

Robert J Sakimano wrote:I've always thought a ballroom would go over really well downtown.

Agreed one of the reasons frankly I do not visit. lack of ballrooming

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:Old people just off of campus. This will end well I'm sure.

grandma's boy!

Blanch32 wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:I've always thought a ballroom would go over really well downtown.

Agreed    one of the reasons frankly I do not visit.   lack of ballrooming

Isn't dancing what caused your fat girlfriend to get injured?

pulling69 wrote:

Blanch32 wrote:

Agreed    one of the reasons frankly I do not visit.   lack of ballrooming

Isn't dancing what caused your fat girlfriend to get injured?

Yup, and his future FiL won't ever let him forget it. (As if anyone needs another reason to be disgusted by Blanch.)

Robert J Sakimano wrote:I've always thought a ballroom would go over really well downtown.

Yeah Bobby the 3rd floor ballroom in the Union was always hopping.