Michigan Street work

[quoteme3]

Yep. (Dang did it take a search to find this!)

Existing Site:

[mpchicago]

You found the old design dtown. These days it looks a little more like this:

Chuck's and the house should be coming down in short order. We're finishing up construction documents. Steel will be flying soon.

[john_denver]

I hate to correct you too Karen, but Park Row hasn't started construction yet. The building out at the corner is a mixed-use commercial retail thingamajig. Anyone lurking know who the ground-floor tenants are going to be?

[Ted]

Ted - What materials are going to be used for those white walls? It looks like it may have changed from your first renderings where we saw a little more detail.

[joeDowntown]

I heard this will not a a LMCU branch, but will house the for-profit divisions of LMCU including the insurance company, mortgage company and leasing. Can anyone confirm?

Looking at the hill now, it actually seems like some pretty expensive real estate to be building such a small building on (though I like the design . Much better than LMCU's "brick McDonalds" buildings they seem to be building these days). Even their logo looks a bit like a classed up golden arches.

Joe

[mpchicago]

I heard this will not a a LMCU branch, but will house the for-profit divisions of LMCU including the insurance company, mortgage company and leasing. Can anyone confirm?

Looking at the hill now, it actually seems like some pretty expensive real estate to be building such a small building on (though I like the design . Much better than LMCU's "brick McDonalds" buildings they seem to be building these days). Even their logo looks a bit like a classed up golden arches.

Joe

[Ted]

I heard this will not a a LMCU branch, but will house the for-profit divisions of LMCU including the insurance company, mortgage company and leasing. Can anyone confirm?

Looking at the hill now, it actually seems like some pretty expensive real estate to be building such a small building on (though I like the design . Much better than LMCU's "brick McDonalds" buildings they seem to be building these days). Even their logo looks a bit like a classed up golden arches.

Joe

[MAU]

Oh, it's a branch. They'll have other services in it too - like they do at most other branches. But it's a branch first and foremost.

[Ted]

I do not know.

[Prankster]

Are they building this one to replace a different branch or just to add a new one?

[MAU]

Seems like this one would replace the location they used to have in the GRCC parking ramp.

[GRDadof3]

[john_denver]

Are they taking down the house too?

Was that not part of the original plan?

[GRDadof3]

Are they taking down the house too?

Was that not part of the original plan?

[Veloise]

Last night, about 11 pm.

[joeDowntown]

It's too bad they couldn't have moved the house into the hill instead of knocking it down.

LMCU used to be headquartered on Michigan, so they lost that branch a couple of years ago. They have the little Fuller drive through. Maybe that will close once this opens?

I know they are moving their for-profit entities into this building (insider info), but each of these "companies" only has a half-a-handful of people. Unless they are building a second Michigan St. location but I very highly doubt it.

Joe

[gvsusean]

i have not seen that house in person but from the photos it looks very nice . erminds me of broadway and first... I get sad

[dtown]

Thanks for the photos Dad and Veloise. Its too bad that they had to knowck down that house, but oh well, this building looks like its going to be pretty nice lookin.

[blueradon]

My friend rented the apartment out in that house - and because they were tearing it down he was forced to move back to Lansing because he couldn't find another decent place. He really misses GR too - kinda sucks

[suydam]

My friend rented the apartment out in that house - and because they were tearing it down he was forced to move back to Lansing because he couldn't find another decent place. He really misses GR too - kinda sucks

[mpchicago]

My friend rented the apartment out in that house - and because they were tearing it down he was forced to move back to Lansing because he couldn't find another decent place. He really misses GR too - kinda sucks

[twoshort]

My friend rented the apartment out in that house - and because they were tearing it down he was forced to move back to Lansing because he couldn't find another decent place. He really misses GR too - kinda sucks

[quoteme3]

I don't buy that for a second.

[Veloise]

He couldn't find a decent place in all of Grand Rapids? Even Heritage Hill has a long list of rental properties available at any given time. There has got to be more to that story...

[GRDadof3]

In addition to the houses being demolished on Michigan near Benson, I noticed the other day that Jade Pig Racing's monikers have disappeared from this garage next to Bagel Beanery. Did they also sell to MSU? A lot of changes going on.