Avondale Square Adding 30 Single-Family Residential Units in East Lansing

The City of East Lansing is going to demolish homes on the 600 block of Virginia Avenue to make way for 30 new family-friendly residential units. The city wants to convert the area to single-family homes from its current student rental status.

According to excerpts from the article:

The project, which the city hopes to have completed by February 2008, will replace mostly student rental houses on the block with housing for single families, said Stephanie Gingerich, an East Lansing community development analyst.

“They’re all going to be unoccupied homes so they’re basically for people who would like to buy a single family home for single home ownership purposes,” she said.

The units — comprised of 16 single family homes and 14 condominiums — will range in cost from roughly $160,000-$200,000, said Tim Dempsey, East Lansing’s Community and Economic Development administrator.

“This is an area of town where we’ve seen the rental market kind of soften a bit,” Dempsey said. “A lot of the homes in there are kind of nondescript, some of the rentals weren’t the most architecturally significant homes. The homes were kind of bland in terms of their rentals for the most part.”

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