The thousands of students at the country's largest law school, Cooley, are a driving force behind the revitalization of Downtown Lansing.
According to excerpts from the article:
The sidewalks in downtown Lansing don't roll up at 6 p.m. anymore. There are bars, a handful of restaurants that stay open into the evening hours, new apartments in old buildings.
And people like Sean Forrester and Shannon Todd have something to do with that. Both of them moved to Lansing from Arizona. Both live downtown. He has an apartment in the Stadium District. She lives in JI Case Lofts on Pere Marquette Drive.
They each go out two or three nights a week," anywhere from the Firm to Brannigan's to the Nuthouse or Harem or Tavern (on the Square)," Forrester said.
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