The design of the proposed $24 to $30 million mixed-use Market Place development in Downtown Lansing has been changed to accommodate the riverfront and green space that will accompany the new City Market.
In December, the project design was changed, getting rid of the proposed retaining wall between the park and the proposed City Market, which would have been seven feet tall at its highest point. To make better use of the green space and give more visual access to the River Trail, the design now includes two 18 to 20 inch walls that don’t have any guardrails.
“I’d like to think that it’s gone one layer deeper,” says Dave VanderKlok with Studio Intrigue, the architecture company designing the new City Market.
The new design brings the park and River Trail together, rather than cutting the two off from each other.
“Since one of the greatest goals is to bring the activity of the River Trail and intermingle it with the activity of the City Market, we don’t want a wall that may have been a psychological barrier,” VanderKlok says.
The new design also nixes the creation of a new roadway west of the market, also preserving more green space.
Source: Dave VanderKlok, Studio Intrigue
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
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