[CPEO-BIF] Office building replacement in Lansing, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

$7M development planned near airport Mixed-use facility on tap for  
Lansing


by Scott Davis
Lansing State Journal (MI)
February 6, 2014

A dilapidated building on Lansing's north side would be razed to make  
way for a proposed $7 million mixed-use facility, city officials said  
Thursday.

The building at 4000 N. Grand River Avenue, adjacent to Capitol  
Regional International Airport, would be demolished this spring with  
about $290,000 in funds provided through the Lansing Brownfield  
Redevelopment Authority, said Karl Dorshimer, president and CEO of  
the Lansing Economic Development Corp.

...

Dorshimer said the site qualifies for brownfield status because of  
asbestos that must be cleaned up at the site.

The 63,000 square-foot building, constructed in 1962, formerly housed  
offices for Farm Bureau Insurance and later served as a training  
center for General Motors Co. Dorshimer said it has been vacant for  
10 years.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20140206/NEWS01/302060032/ 
Developers-plan-7-million-development-near-airport

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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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