Medical Mile/Michigan Street Developments

[Allison Slater]

Photo update:

It looks like they are putting up steel around the area the tower will rise from.

I'm getting a sense of sheer massiveness from this photo.

[GRDadof3]

Photo update:

It looks like they are putting up steel around the area the tower will rise from.

If you're talking about the semi-circle steel area being attached to the current hospital, that's actually a redesigned entryway and turnaround for Butterworth. The Children's Hospital will be over to the upper right, almost right under the tower crane, which will also have a drop-off canopy over the turnaround. I don't see any steel yet on the HDVCH.

Flip this picture all the way over and you'll have the same orientation as your picture you took.

[Eridony]

If you're talking about the semi-circle steel area being attached to the current hospital, that's actually a redesigned entryway and turnaround for Butterworth. The Children's Hospital will be over to the upper right, almost right under the tower crane, which will also have a drop-off canopy over the turnaround. I don't see any steel yet on the HDVCH.

Okay thanks. I thought the tower was going to be further over, but the way that steel was curving reminded me of the curve of the tower.

[Allison Slater]

Ah. Regardless, it's becoming apparent just how much of a presence this will have on the skyline when comparing the height of the base with the height of the VAI. VAI reaches over the base ~4 stories, with about 10 of HDVC above the base? Assuming floor heights will be similar, that's a 6-storey over-reach.

[Eridony]

Ah. Regardless, it's becoming apparent just how much of a presence this will have on the skyline when comparing the height of the base with the height of the VAI. VAI reaches over the base ~4 stories, with about 10 of HDVC above the base? Assuming floor heights will be similar, that's a 6-storey over-reach.

Yeah, I'm excited to see how much it impacts the skyline as well. If I remember right after they finish the concrete parking decks the building will be made from steel, so once the tower starts it should really shoot up into the sky.

In your last post you mentioned my photo gave a sense of massiveness, and you know that things always seem much larger in real life. The project seemed huge from my viewpoint, and seeing the crane from VAI, the Cancer Center, and River House all in my field of view just added to that feeling.

[Eridony]

Does anyone know if they are working 24 hour a day on the MSU Building? I drove by on the highway about an hour ago and work was still going on...

I think you're right. I took this picture at 2:15am Friday morning:

There is a large truck backing out of the parking structure entrance and just before I took this there were 3 cement trucks lined up on Michigan, but I missed getting s picture of them.

[jdfjrph]

From the Spectrum Health employee announcements today. I am excited to get a look inside.

Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion Open Houses:

All staff and physicians are invited to a Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion open houses Friday, June 20 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, June 21 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

A community open house will be held Sunday, June 22 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Event parking will be available in the ramp under the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion. The entrance is on Coit Avenue just north of Michigan Street.

[Dharmabum5525]

One more:

Ceiling mural in a CT sim room. Better than just looking at the dots in the ceiling tiles, eh?

Very cool. Did you have a hand in that innovation?

[MuskeMI]

Very cool. Did you have a hand in that innovation?

Not at all. Although I did just see (somewhere...) an article about the company. I would love to put those fake windows in my (windowless) office.

[Dharmabum5525]

Ummm, what are they gonna do with this?? (Healing Gardens at Blodgett campus)

I was talking to a couple of people from Spectrum at a reception last week and asked a similar question about the new logo. They said certain old logos would be left in place as "legacy" items.

[MJLO]

that's a very tactful way of saying it would cost to much to justify changing them.

[MuskeMI]

Some noticable improvements to LHCP the past two days. Street-side landscaping as well as the roof (terrace) gardens are being planted.

[RustTown]

Not sure if these have ever been posted, here, but Lansing's Christman Company recently redid their website and now have photos and renderings of their projects up:

Not having checked back in here in awhile, I was surprised to see in the rendering the Secchia Center with so many floors.

[GRDadof3]

Not sure if these have ever been posted, here, but Lansing's Christman Company recently redid their website and now have photos and renderings of their projects up:

Not having checked back in here in awhile, I was surprised to see in the rendering the Secchia Center with so many floors.

Yes, the latest one we had was this:

[RustTown]

So, the first five floors are parking, right? Also, is the roof also a leasable floor? It appears there may be some useable roof-top area.

[blueradon]

You know it's funny -- I was just thinking the other day about if the MSU building would have any green night time lights shining in the building - and there's that one little strip.

I think it would be cool if the parts in the middle where it's all glass just lit up in green. GR needs to get more colorful.

[GRDadof3]

The helicopter crash/webcam got me thinking about the VAI Phase II construction cam. Check out the latest update (nice clouds!):

[designcritic]

The steel has started to go up on the Med School.

[NorthEnder]

The steel has started to go up on the Med School.

I haven't sifted through all 115 pages of this.

Has anyone commented how disappointed they are with the Lemmen-Holton cancer pavalion? Driving westbound on 196, i think the thing is substantially underwhelming. I know I made a remark a long time ago about the choice of "rock" and looking pedestrian and suburban, sure enough, the finished product looks suburban.

Anyone else not really liking the new digs?

[AlexPKeaton]

I can't say I'm a fan of the stone either, but overall it still gets positive reviews from me.

[MuskeMI]

I'm still not digging the mis-matched windows there in the atrium area. The stone doesn't bother me.

[GRDadof3]

The steel has started to go up on the Med School.

Yes, I saw that. Nice!

[GRDadof3]

I felt like I had to help out eridony and get some more photo updates. Here are some from the biggies:

HDVCH Base:

Full Size

The new Butterworth Hospital entryway:

The combined two sites:

Lemmen Holton Cancer Center, and the etched tree:

It takes a steady hand:

LHCC sprucing up their back (front) yard. I'm surprised they didn't plant any trees???

MSU Med School. This thing's going to go up pretty fast, I imagine:

And a repeat of that cool VAI shot:

Oh, and I can't remember what thread this was in, but the Plymouth St Spectrum Park-n-Ride is almost ready. Man, imagine if this were for a light rail system using those rail lines.

[sparky05]

[Eridony]

Cool shot, I like how you got River House positioned just beyond the VAI construction. I've never seen so many people in that park, is that a lunch time shot?

Here are some pictures I took the other night. Sorry if some parts are too dark, I just use a cheap powershot camera that I'm pretty sure was never intended to take night scenes like this.

MSU:

You can see the moon glow at the top of the building here.

Peeking through the windows. Is this place supposed to be completely finished by June 30th?