Center City - Urban Target, restaurants and apartments

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Site prep work for Center City District in downtown East Lansing began last week.  Center City is located on both Grand River Avenue and Albert Avenue and contains an 11-story building  with 273 apartments and an approximately 23,000 square foot urban-concept Target.  The second building is a 10-story building on Albert, which will contain a 5-story municipal parking garage with approximately 20,000 square feet of retail space and above that 5 stories containing 92 senior citizens apartments.  The alley between the site will be maintained for pedestrian access to all retail.

Grand River building:

Albert building:

The tallest building will measure 137 feet tall to its highest point nearly bumping up against the city's 140-foot height limit.

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Under construction.

June 15

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Looks like this is now called the Newman Lofts.

http://www.newmanlofts.com/

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The Grand River Avenue building is now officially Landmark at Grand River:

http://landmarkongrandriver.com/

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The Target at the base of Landmark on Grand Rvier is coming along more quickly than planned:

East Lansing Buzz

Glass is about to go up, and then Target can begin interior build-out.

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September 29: https://twitter.com/CityofEL/status/1045656791307218944

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Landmark: This one has three or four more floors to go.  East Lansing's height limit generally results in buildings of 12 floors max.

October 17

Landmark on Grand River

October 10

Landmark on Grand River

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Landmark - Late-October

https://www.facebook.com/LandmarkOnGrandRiver/photos/a.505696043195159/570842896680473/?type=3&theater

To the far left you can also see the site Park District, which will begin site prep in early December.

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Landmark - November 21

Landmark on Grand River

EastLansingBuzz

For City Center, two more floors to go on Landmark (Grand River Building); four more floors to go on Newman Lofts (Albert Building). 

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Landmark and Newman Lofts, November 28:

https://twitter.com/LandmarkOnGrand/status/1067765203155210242

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Center City, December 6

https://twitter.com/CityofEL/status/1070408074358415360

And a new rendering of the internal walkway of the north building (Newman Lofts) connecting Albert Avenue to the Target along Grand River Avenue.

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Newman Lofts - https://www.facebook.com/NewmanLofts/

December 12

December 19

 

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Target is a few months opening from in Landmark on the Grand.  The City of East reiterated, today, that it's opening in mid-summer.

City of East Lansing

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The Target at East Lansing Center City will open this July:

East Lansing small-format Target to hire 80, open in July

EAST LANSING — The first small-format Target in the mid-Michigan area will open July 21.

The 22,000-square-foot Target store at 201 E. Grand River Ave. will be a first of its kind for the area.

Target has opened 100 smaller versions of its stores since first piloting the idea in 2014. The small stores are a way for the company to enter markets where a traditional Target store wouldn't fit, said Jacqueline DeBuse, a Target spokesperson.

The small-format store will carry items including food, personal care and beauty products, home decor and apparel, just like a typical Target.

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Brick-work wrapping up on the podium of the Newman Lofts at Center City in East Lansing.  This one turned out better than the renderings, in fact.

https://twitter.com/CityofEL/status/1139147243557203968

Behind Newman Lofts in Landmark we finally get an opening date for the Target in the ground floor: July 21.

https://twitter.com/LandmarkOnGrand/status/1139184015678889985

From about two weeks ago:

https://twitter.com/HarborBayREA/status/1133478696587845633

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City officials got a tour of the complex, today.  Here's the alley entrance of the Target:

https://twitter.com/CityofEL/status/1148587678939701248

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The ribbon-cutting for the downtown Target was today, though it doesn't open to the general public until Sunday:

https://twitter.com/CityofEL/status/1151482406563717121

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https://twitter.com/LandmarkOnGrand/status/1152941680405991425

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The Target has been super-busy since opening.  Landmark (above Target) opened last week:

New Landmark apartments in East Lansing cleared for move-in; Hub still needs city OK

EAST LANSING — The new Landmark apartment complex on Grand River has been cleared for occupancy, with move-in expected to begin on Saturday.

Another downtown student housing complex, the Hub on Campus, still must pass a final safety inspection before tenants are allowed to move in.

Rents:

More than 96% of the units at the Landmark have been pre-leased, Mack said.

Move-in dates at the Hub will also be staggered prior to the first day of classes at Michigan State University on Aug. 28. The Hub complex is over 90% leased with only studios still available, according to Gasperetti.

Monthly rent for a studio apartment starts at  $1,050 at the Landmark and $1,119 at the Hub.

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The brickwork on this; I can't get over it.

 

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Newman Lofts at Center City is still finishing up.  Here is the amenities deck.  Newman Lofts is a 55+ building next door to Landmark on the Grand, which is marketed towards students:

https://twitter.com/HarborBayREA/status/1169231522278326272

Ground floor is still coming along:

https://twitter.com/MiPlaceNews/status/1161287987512119297

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Newman Lofts opened last week.  With that, the project is largely complete save for any interior build-outs that occur in the remaining groundfloor commercial units.

A photo of Albert Street from the city:

https://twitter.com/CityofEL/status/1178774419008823297

The elevated park:

https://twitter.com/CityofEL/status/1178706752700858369

And another showing the elevated park in context:

https://twitter.com/HarborBayREA/status/1175156346691489797