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RFP#: ICLB 06-2017-APPRAISE Delivery drivers: Frank Estrada, Dave Fisher, Paul CP#17-170 “Unite,” by Alexander Watts Shore, Richard Simpson, Thomas Scott Jr. Interns: Danielle Chesney, Clarissa Kell, Dylan Tarr City Pulse • June 14, 2017 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION Berneroway C OF THE WEEK Mayor distorts history in defending his road thru Ormond Park Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero insisted different options. And on Tuesday that back in 1989 the Lansing we didn’t know back City Council purchased parcels of land for then what some of the Ormond Park for one purpose and one pur- options would have pose only: a new entryway to Groesbeck Golf been.” Course. However, Sid “It was purchased by a previous city coun- Worthington, another cil that included the likes of Lucille Belen and Councilman from then, Alfreda Schmidt,” he declared in an interview recalled the exact oppo- on WKAR. “It was adopted unanimously for site. the express purpose of creating a driveway “Yes, yes,” he said by into Groesbeck Golf Course.” phone Tuesday. “That’s Property: 401 South Capitol Ave. – Trouble is: The City Council resolution what it was for.” Lansing Public Library, Lansing says specifically not that the parcels must be He recalled the used for that purpose but that they “could” purchase was part of The patterned cladding on this building, be. a larger plan to revi- which serves as the downtown branch The language is clear: “A new drive could talize the languishing of the Capital Area District Libraries, be constructed through Ormond Park if course. Those plans, he brightens the streetscape a few blocks the City acquired access to E. Grand River” said, including spruc- south of the Capital Building. The Avenue. ing up the clubhouse rounded entrance lobby, located at The 1989 resolution cited improvements to include a restaurant. the north end of the ground level, sits that would increase traffic to the course and The city, he recalled, shadowed beneath a deep cantilevered that the only access to it was through resi- had just obtained the canopy. Rising two additional floors dential streets. course from the State of above the ground floor, the upper levels are clad in precast white concrete panels Over the years, neighbors have success- Michigan. with exposed quartz aggregate. The fully fought the entryway through the park Lindemann said at panels are imprinted with the trademark despite traffic through their streets. the time there was dis- emblems — called ‘colophons’ — of But this year, Bernero succeeded where cussion about creating several well-known book publishers. other administrations have failed. His plan an entrance off of Wood Street, which he said tionality and accessibility. Designed by Lansing-based architect to spend $358,000 in parks millage mon- “would be ideal” because it would remove the That process, he said, has to be done in Kenneth C. Black, construction of the ey for the new road survived neighborhood traffic concerns from the neighborhood. But public and with a public hearing — some- building was completed in 1964. In all, opposition. Bids are being sought to build the Worthington said he didn’t think that idea thing the Bernero administration has reject- the building’s Mid-century details offer road by fall. had come up in “88 or ‘89.” ed out of hand. a softer version of the International The 1989 resolution reflects that all eight At the end of the day, Lindemann argued, Asked if he thought the city should hold a Modernism popular earlier in the members, including Belen and Schmidt, vot- the city hasn’t “really looked at all the alter- public process to develop an outside-the-box century. This seems altogether fitting, ed for it. But if the intent was that the land natives.” plan, as Lindemann called for, Worthington given Black’s apparently dim view of modern development patterns. He was must be used for a road, the resolution does He noted he recently completed a said he did — with a caveat that it not delay an early skeptic of the artificiality of not say so. drain-related redesign of property owned by transfer of management of the course to the post-war suburban development and he The current Council is already looking the Lansing Board of Water & Light which Lansing Entertainment and Public Facility encouraged his colleagues to renew their into how the road proposal ever got insert- abuts both Bancroft Park and the golf course. Authority. That move, he said, was some- focus on urban centers. ed into the city’s master plan for parks. The That area would be right for putting in a driv- thing he’d supported for years. Black graduated from the University of Council voted 8-0 on Monday to investigate ing range, a new entrance and parking — and Bernero has done exactly that in the new Michigan, where he had studied under that, just hours after the state Department has the bonus of moving the golf traffic from budget, which takes effect in July, despite the guidance of Finnish architect Eliel of Natural Resources said it too was looking the neighborhood and protecting Ormond the Council’s opposition. Bernero vetoed the Saarinen. In 1930, he joined the Lansing into it. Park. Council measure, but opponents to the trans- firm founded by his father and he was In his WKAR appearance, Bernero “So there’s an opportunity for looking fer to LEPFA were unable to overcome it. elevated to Fellowship in the American accused Council members of “giving us his- at some alternatives here,” he said. “I think But as for a public process and that out- Institute of Architects in 1952. trionics” rather than “read the history.” that’s what they should do.” of-the-box plan? But Ingham County Drain Commissioner He doesn’t dismiss the Ormond plan out “I don’t want to be a buttinski into what —Daniel E. Bollman, AIA Pat Lindemann — who served on the Council of hand, but he said no one knows if that is the city is doing,” Worthington said, “But it’s in 1989 — suggested it was the other way the “best way.” never a bad idea to look at that.” around.