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MEDICAL CAMPUS
The existing and proposed clinics, health facilities,
and medical office buildings on the west side
of Wood Road form the nucleus of a western anchor
to the district. They also create a market for
medical support office space, recreation, entertainment,
senior housing, hotels, and extended stay facilities.
An age-inplace community that offers a continuum
of housing, services, and health care within an
amenity-rich environment will help grow the medical
group and provide balance to the retail and commercial
development of Eastwood. The ample electrical
service along Lake Lansing Road will meet the
need for high quality and quantity of power required
for medical facilities. Additionally, this type
of housing also requires less parking and has
less of an impact on local traffic.
Development types should
include a variety of residential densities and
housing styles, as well as high quality medical
and commercial uses. The former ice arena site
at the elbow of Lake Lansing Road should be redeveloped
as a landmark-quality building of four to five
stories to provide a well defined terminal view
from each end of the Lake Lansing Road corridor.
Possible uses of this development could include
medical office and acute senior care.
The amenity value of the
Medical Campus stems from its connection to an
expanded Groesbeck greenway whose tentacles could
stretch from central Lansing beyond the northern
Ingham County line. The greenway could host club
house and naturalized stormwater facilities, similar
to the Tollgate system, flanked by market rate
mid-rise condominiums, garden-style town homes,
and medical office development with access to,
or views of the Groesbeck Golf Course and Greenway
and the proposed stormwater retention feature.
The road cross section
of the western leg of Lake Lansing Road should
be redesigned to provide generous pedestrian amenities,
with space for community art, outdoor dining,
transit, and public gathering areas. Small bay
retail and commercial space, with shallow setbacks
and upper story residential or office uses should
line the street. The enhanced street design and
infrastructure will help spur and set the proper
tone for private investment in the area.
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