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Should the city continue prioritizing large mixed-use projects like Red Cedar over smaller, distributed neighborhood investment?

The former Red Cedar Golf Course site, just inside Lansing city limits near the Michigan State University border along Trowbridge Road, is being redeveloped into a mixed-use project with housing, a hotel, and public riverfront space. It's one of the largest active redevelopment projects in the city and has required its own set of infrastructure and tax-incentive decisions from Council.

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Overview

The former Red Cedar Golf Course, just inside Lansing city limits near the MSU border, is being redeveloped into housing, a hotel, and public riverfront space — one of the largest active redevelopment projects in the city.

The Two Sides
For prioritizing it
  • Scale matters for long-term tax base impact
  • Riverfront public space benefits the whole city, not just the immediate area
Against concentrating there
  • Other neighborhoods have waited longer with less to show for it
  • Large projects draw disproportionate staff attention relative to their footprint
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Updated 2026-08-26 ·8 positions
The Debate

Should the city continue prioritizing large mixed-use projects like Red Cedar over smaller, distributed neighborhood investment?

For

Yes — a project this size has a bigger long-term tax base impact

Against

No — the city should be spreading investment across more neighborhoods, not concentrating it

Where do you stand?
4 Yes — a project this size has a bigger long-term tax base impact 2 No — the city should be spreading investment across more neighborhoods, not concentrating it 2 I support the project but want to see a specific neighborhood investment plan alongside it 8 total

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