[CPEO-BIF] Old Town, Lansing, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Partnering to Preserve History

Jo Anne Paul-Stanton
Greater Lansing Business Monthly (MI)
March, 2011

Alan Hooper and Ryan Kincaid have been friends since childhood. While  
always planning to go into business together, it wasn’t until the  
collapse of the real estate and construction industries that their  
partnership really began to take shape. “We laugh and joke because we  
started in a down economy,” says Kincaid, co-owner of Kincaid Henry  
Building Group, Inc. “But we had a solid strategic business plan.”

Hooper, co-owner of Triterra of Lansing, agrees. “I met up with Ryan  
and his business partner and just knew it was a good fit.  They came  
along at the right time.”

Triterra’s search for an office building became the partners’ first  
project. Hooper found an older building in Lansing’s Old Town in  
2007. It was in desperate need of a facelift. “It had a lot of  
environmental issues,” he recalls. The site was contaminated with  
industrial and dry cleaning chemicals, had underground storage tanks,  
and drainage problems. “If this project didn’t qualify for brownfield  
redevelopment funds, none should.”


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For the entire article, see
http://www.lansingbusinessmonthly.com/articles/203-2011-march/2159- 
partnering-to-preserve-history.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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