As part of its $182 million renovation of the old Ottawa Power Station, one of the area’s largest insurers, the Accident Fund, is in the midst of demolishing a Downtown Lansing parking garage.
According to excerpts from the article:
Eyes fixed upward, Matthew Haran, marketing poobah for the Lansing-based Accident Fund Insurance Co. of America, let the picture slip almost to the sidewalk.
“It’s really happening,” Haran said.
In Haran’s picture, the Ottawa Power Station bared its orange shoulders to open skies, unhindered by the grim, grey parking deck. The garage has eclipsed the west face of the flame-shaped Art Deco landmark since it was built in 1985.
In front of Haran, the real Grand Avenue was a grey and white haze, with a backdrop of stringy reinforcement cable and dangling concrete chunks. The former power station and future world headquarters of Accident Fund was only beginning to peek from the ragged edge of demolition work. The whole parking structure won’t be gone until mid-December, but this the beginning.
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