LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Walter Neller Constructing, 122 S. Grand Ave. in downtown Lansing is in its final days.
Lansing Metropolis Council Monday order the property house owners, the Granger Group, to both make the property secure or demolish it in 60 days. If the corporate doesn’t act in time, town pays to have the constructing torn down.
The motion has been a very long time coming. The constructing has been red-tagged, or deemed unsafe, since Oct. 20, 2016.
Lindsey LeBlanc, Director of Growth for the Granger Group, the event enterprise that owns the 1938 Neller Constructing, requested Metropolis Council to create an “out-of-the-box” answer that will permit the corporate to mix demolition with upcoming growth plans.
She informed Council, throughout the public remark portion of Monday’s assembly, the corporate had introduced forth “several redevelopments” that had been deserted when metropolis management both “denied” the proposals or “weakly supported” them.
Certainly one of them was a proposal to place town’s new seat of presidency on the location. The proposal was rejected by Mayor Andy Schor.
“We’d rather keep the property as is until we have a project that’s worth of that location,” she informed Metropolis Council. “With all that said, we hear you. Something needs to be done with the building. We are not arguing that point. We are in the middle of getting a contract signed to have it demo’d. It will be done by March.”
Councilmembers disagreed and ordered the constructing be made secure or demolished 60 days from December 16. If Granger Group fails to handle the property, town will demolish it and invoice the prices to the property’s taxes.
