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[hood]

After looking at a map I guess it must be down James St or Washington. I already know of a few severely dilapidated houses that were fixed up this area. Here are a few examples:

217 e Dwight (fixed-up now)


209 Reasoner


214 Reasoner


223 E North


300 W North (my favorite lol)


There are plenty more, but the city just updated its assessors site software so I can't get anymore images than what I already had on my computer.

[Lmichigan]

I've been through the area directly north of the Turner-Dodge, and the area is literally under 10-blocks in size, and pretty industrial, as well.  From everything I know, it's not all that crime-ridden, and not incredibly dilapidated, rather, it's more old and poor than anything else.  At its worst it's simply become an irrelevant neighbohood.  I assume the area (more likely a subdivision) originally existed to service the heavily industrial areas around Northtown/Old Town.  Now that the industrial aspect of the neighborhood has declined, or moved up Grand River, there really isn't much there.

Edited by Lmichigan, 10 April 2006 - 07:51 PM.

[hood]

I think it does have pretty high crime by lansing standards, roughly the same as the Center St and Liberty/Pearl St areas nearby, it's basically just behind the Eighth/Hosmer neighborhood when it comes to crime. And from what I've seen its in pretty rough shape, largely due to fact that it is post-industrial. One building that is really nice to see get fixed up is the one ACD.net is doing, I don't know if you've seen it recently but it was looking really, really nasty when I went by it a few weeks ago. Here are another couple of pics, as with the ones above they are all within that small 8 or 9 block neighborhood.

1603 Turner


1701 Turner (the blue house in the background is tha same as the one above on Dwight St.)

Edited by hood, 10 April 2006 - 08:00 PM.

[Phizzy]

Lmichigan, on Apr 10 2006, 03:31 AM, said:

1. Lansing: 123,223 (+3.4%)
2. East Lansing: 52,380 (+12.6%)
3. Meridian Township: 40,751 (+4.2%)
4. Delta Township: 34,897 (+17.6%)
5. Delhi Township: 25,250 (+11.9%)

Those numbers (except for Delhi Twp) do seem optimistic compared to the Census Bureau estimates:

							  Census  Estimate	 Change
							   2000	 2004	  #	  %
1 Lansing city			   119,378  116,941  -2,437  -2.0%
2 East Lansing city		   46,606   46,678	  72   0.2%
3 Meridian charter township   39,107   38,674	-433  -1.1%
4 Delta charter township	  29,590   30,877   1,287   4.3%
5 Delhi charter township	  22,496   24,822   2,326  10.3%

EDIT: Fixed Lansing's population.

Edited by Phizzy, 10 April 2006 - 09:03 PM.

[hood]

Those numbers aren't very realistic. Lansing had over 119,000 in the 2000 census, not 114,000. I can almost guarantee that Meridian will not lose population and with the massive development in the northern tier EL will almost certainly gain a lot by 2010, even the Chamber of Commerces' estimates may be conservative. Delta will almost certainly gain more than what the census bureau predicts. Overall I agree with the Chamber of Commerces estimates, excet for Lansing, I really don't see it gaining by 2010.

I found a "rendering" of the building ACD.net is fixing up on Signature Associates:

Edited by hood, 10 April 2006 - 08:22 PM.

[Phizzy]

hood, on Apr 10 2006, 10:07 PM, said:

Those numbers aren't very realistic. Lansing had over 119,000 in the 2000 census, not 114,000.

You're correct. I forgot to include the portion of Lansing in Eaton County. I've fixed the numbers above.

[hood]

I see now, those are only 2004 estimates, the CC's estimates are for 2010, I think.

Edited by hood, 10 April 2006 - 09:08 PM.

[Lmichigan]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I included that the numbers were for 2010.

[coolbrezze]

According to city-data.com Lansing may drop to 114,000 by 2007, although overall the metro area population is predicted by city-data.com to increase.

[coolbrezze]

According to city-data.com Lansing may drop to 114,000 by 2007, although overall the metro area population is predicted by city-data.com to increase.