After an eight-year hiatus, East Lansing’s popular Small Planet music venue and restaurant is primed to pack crowds into its 10,000 square foot building.
According to excerpts from the article:
In the Chandler Road Plaza, just north of Lake Lansing, a new Planet has formed. No, it’s not the same as it was, but it has been cleverly designed to blend the old with the new, simultaneously wooing its old audience allowing the new generation make it their own.
Original owner Vaughn Schneider is still the brains of the operation, although he has turned day-to-day duties over to daughter Natalie and positioned himself as general manager. But you can still tell this place is his baby.
“It’s still in its infancy,” says Schneider with pride, looking around the 10,000-square-foot space with mostly bare walls. "We’re still refining the look of the place, but it’s all coming together. Everyone’s getting a kick out of watching everything slowly taking shape. Even I don’t know what it’s going to look like when it’s all done.”
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