The Gillespie Group recently won the “2007 Large Community Redevelopment Project of the Year Award” for work being done on the Stadium District in Downtown Lansing. 
The Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) gives the award to urban development projects that have utilized funding, such as brownfield credits, to help pay for the project. It has never been given to a Downtown Lansing project.
“People have always looked at the capital city as not Grand Rapids, or Detroit, or Kalamazoo,” says Stadium District Developer Pat Gillespie. “This kind of makes that statement that Lansing really is in an echelon it hasn’t been in before.”
The Stadium District is a $15 million mixed-use urban development project in Downtown Lansing across from the Lansing Lugnuts minor league baseball stadium.
“People always think of Lansing as making an effort,” Gillespie says. “We’re not only making an effort, but ours is superior to others.”
Source: John Truscott, The Truscott Group
Ivy Hughes is the development news editor for Capital Gains. She can be reached at ivy@capitalgainsmedia.com.
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