Lenawee Street YMCA Could be Home to New Development

The two-acre Lenawee Street site that used to house the YMCA of Metropolitan Lansing could be home to a new development. Lansing officials are working with developers to draw up plans for the site.

According to excerpts from the article:

City officials have been contacted by developers interested in buying the 2-acre site on Lenawee Street that has been vacant since January 2003.

But YMCA officials said the deal is not a sure thing, despite a "sold" sign placed at the site weeks ago by the organization's real estate agent.

"We intend to sell it, but it has not been sold," YMCA President Tony Fragale said Wednesday. "We are looking to get that sold early next year. But not until the deal is done is it a sure thing."

The nonprofit moved out of the six-story building at 301 W. Lenawee St., which it had occupied since 1951, nearly five years ago in favor of new facilities in Lansing Township and on Washington Square.

The building features four floors of dorm-style rooms, which sat vacant during the organization's final years in the building. Several efforts to redevelop the building or build a new YMCA facility at the site failed.

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