The Lansing City Council is considering as least eight
major development proposals slated to start this spring. In the next
couple of weeks, the Lansing City Council will look at tax breaks and other
incentives to get these proposals off the ground.
According to excerpts from the article:
At least eight projects that have been publicly announced
are in the pipeline awaiting some aspect of council approval. More are expected
to be added.
"This will be a strong indication of how much
construction will start and how many jobs will be created in the spring,"
said Bob Trezise, president of the Lansing Economic Development Corp.
But despite promises of new jobs and visions of a more
dynamic city, those projects won't necessarily have an easy time making it
through the process.
With new council leadership and two members newer to
council than some of the projects before it, tax incentives for multimillion
projects could get a fresh dose of skepticism.
Other issues, including concerns about the city's
neighborhoods and a prevailing wage ordinance proposed last year, also are
likely to come up.
None of the concerns raised so far has risen to the point
where officials and developers say they jeopardize a project.
Read the entire article here.
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