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Lansing, MI 48910 Be Creative! 517.395.4685 Get Social City Pulse • May 9, 2018 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION the building on Larch for butchering. “It’s a great building, and I can see a roof- FOR The Gillespie vision top bar there, overlooking the stadium,” he said. While the Corner Bar and the slaughter- DESIGN Developer still buying, believing in Lansing house are dreams at the moment, he has been clearing the way for the redevelop- Standing to the side of the BWL Depot District just over a decade later. ment of the 600 block of East Michigan, meeting room Saturday, Patrick Gillespie And now? He’s snapped up a series of That development will be a multi-use talked quietly to his daughter. He stood properties surrounding the stadium. His building featuring retail on the first floor beside two large displays. He was the fea- Outfield Project is a national trend, he with apartments above. The star tenant at tured speaker at First Ward Councilwoman said. The Lansing Brewing Co. has become this location is likely to be a grocery store. Jody Washington’s monthly get-together so popular, parking is becoming an issue. But mum’s the word on which one. with constituents. And his Marketplace Apartments, built on “We’re in talks with a lot of them,” His message? The revitalization “ener- the riverfront on the former Lansing City Gillespie told the group on Saturday. “We gy” of downtown Lansing and the Stadium Market property, is going gangbusters, he might have gotten a few to take the hook. District specifically is infectious and poten- said. The second phase of the multi-col- We’ll see.” tially “reaching critical mass.” But one thing is pretty evident, he said: “There’s all kinds of infill that’s happen- ing,” he said of Michigan Avenue. “Each one of those makes it spread quicker. People are East Lansing realizing it is getting better and they want to hold onto their property. That’s a good Stephen Dothage of Lansing was the problem to have. It’s better than a fire sale.” first person to correctly identify the Gillespie grew up in Lansing, on the east April 11 Eye for Design as 109 West side, and has made it his business to invest Michigan Ave. in Lansing, adding that in the city. He said he came to the realiza- it “houses the Michigan Department of tion that the projects he was working on in Health and Human Services.” A careful other parts of the state could easily become study of the glazed terra cotta panels on Lansing projects. And that’s when he the building reveals a caduceus, which made a move on developing the four-story is often used as a symbol of the medical Stadium District. profession. That filled in a gaping hole left by ear- The combined concrete block and lier moves by the city. In the late ‘80s and header brick detail above may be found early ‘90s, the City Council and the Mayor’s in East Lansing. Office were much more conservative, and The first person to correctly identify the the block that now plays home to the base- location of the detail will receive a City ball stadium and to the Stadium District Pulse Eye for Design mug. Send your Todd Heywood/City Pulse was referred to by then Mayor Terry answer to [email protected] by Developer Pat Gillespie discusses new projects at BWL’s old train station at a constituent McKane as “sin city.” May 16. Where the parking and lawn of the meeting hosted by 1st Ward Councilwoman Jody Washington on Saturday. DANIEL E. BOLLMAN, AIA stadium are today stood two gay bars, Trammpp’s Disco and Joe Covello’s. There was also a Velvet Touch adult bookstore ored project just opened, and includes MP there. Social, a riverview eatery designed to draw Don’t expect a downtown gas station. He The area Gillespie developed played customers from the apartments as well as said those “don’t make money on gas,” home to an old apartment building with the River Trail. rather “it’s selling cigarettes, candy, coffee” an adult bookstore and an antique store “We deliberately did not include lots where they “make it up.” But the gas sta- as tenants. There was also public parking of parking for that,” he said. “We want to tions he’s been in contact with aren’t biting. there. entice people off the River Trail.” It is also extremely expensive, he said, to McKane cajoled the city into purchasing He said he’s also considering turning the build a new gas station because of environ- those properties before he retired, causing former Corner Bar, located at Shiawassee mental regulations. the early retirement scandal that helped and Cedar streets into a breakfast place. “They seem to work nicely with grocery sweep David Hollister into office on a pro- “Would any of you go there?” he asked stores,” he said. “We’ve made some of those gressive reform platform. But by then, the the attendees, most of whom eagerly said calls. They don’t seem to be interested at buildings were gone. Instead, there were yes. all. They don’t think they can do the vol- empty lots. And he recently inked a deal to purchase ume. We’re getting shut down. Right now Hollister saw that space and knew a a property that runs from Larch Street our nearest gas station is Speedway” at Michigan and Clemens Avenue. “Eye for Design” is our weekly look at some baseball stadium would be a key to rein- east to Pere Marquette Street. It’s a for- of the nicer properties in Lansing.