Silver Bells in the City
The City of Lansing had another wonderful Silver Bells in the City event. If you have never attended this event, you should certainly do so next year. The Board of Water and Light worked diligently putting up lights and all the things behind the scenes. Downtown Lansing, Inc. did a great job coordinating the efforts. It seems this event just gets better and better each year. The tree is beautiful and classic with the white lights neatly placed on each branch. For everyone that was involved in this event, you sure made Lansing proud for the 30th annual Silver Bells in the City!
Just a Note
There are so many things happening in the city at this time, that I will not have time to touch on all of them. The issues that I do address, I will address in greater detail at the 1st Contact, Saturday, December 5, 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Allen Market Center.
What's Coming Up With Council
In the next few weeks, council will be wrapping up the business for this year. This means that issues that have been completed will be passed to the new committee members after our January 5 organizational meeting. As chair of the Public Safety Committee, I have been working on the following:
- Review and revision of the Medical Marijuana ordinance
- Review and collaboration on the prostitution issue
- Overnight parking issues
- Code compliance issues
- Signage issues
- Much more
This has been an extremely busy year for Public Safety. All other committee chairs will be wrapping up their issues and handing them over to the new committees as well.
Much to my surprise, there has not been much discussion regarding leadership for the 2015 council. Time will tell who the new president and vice president will be.
1st Ward Goings On
Neogen has purchased the old Estes building at 1700 Shiawassee. They will be spending $1.6 million in renovations for this building. They intend to use it as mixed use—laboratories, production, and offices. This will create 25 new jobs. They will be seeking a 50% tax abatement over 12 years. We will discuss further at our 1st Contact meeting.
The Lansing Brewing Company applied for a new micro-brewery, small wine maker and small distiller license. This will be located at 517 E. Shiawassee Street. Again, we will discuss this further at our 1st Contact meeting.
The Red Cedar project is finally moving forward!!! The agreement has been signed and we are ready to roll. You won’t see shovels in the ground until next year, but progress will be made nonetheless. What am I going to say? We will discuss further at 1st Contact!!
Sparrow Hospital is going to build their Cancer Center on the property of the Old Bingham Elementary School.
I hope everyone has a safe and happy Thanksgiving!!!
