The Flickr Lansingtownship Image Generatr

I dislike the building. I photographed it for the purpose of casting negative judgment upon the people of 1965, the year it was built.

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In Lansing Charter Township, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, was an office building (built in 1965 according to Lansing municipal records at bsaonline.com) on the north side of East Grand River Avenue (Highway M-43 and Interstate 69 Business Loop), between North Fairview Avenue and North Foster Avenue.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Office buildings—Michigan (sh2008002547)

Horizontal slab and vertical slab.

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In Lansing Charter Township, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, was an office building at 2213 E Grand River Ave (built in 1965 according to Lansing municipal records at bsaonline.com) on the north side of East Grand River Avenue (Highway M-43 and Interstate 69 Business Loop), between North Fairview Avenue and North Foster Avenue.

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So you can imagine my happiness.

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In Lansing Charter Township, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, was a parking lot on the west side of North Fairview Avenue, south of Marguerite Avenue.

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On this day a Silverado from circa 2020 was posed nearby, in a backed-in position.

This all looks pretty comfortable from out here, in its brick veneer and replacement siding, but the complex was built in 1959, and I have observed that apartment buildings from that time period are commonly at a difficult age in the U.S., vis-à-vis deferred maintenance.

But I don't have any experience with this complex. Maybe it's an exception to the usual stories we find at the intersection of landlord greed and Boomer/Xer amorality, of money hoarders endlessly finding ways to enrich themselves by actively worsening the conditions of others.

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In Lansing Charter Township, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, was a portion of the Woodmar Apartments (formally "The Beneicke Group Presents Apartments & Townhomes of Woodmar," per its sign; built in 1959, according to Lansing Township records at bsaonline.com) on the north side of Shoppers Alley Street, east of North Fairview Avenue, in the Groesbeck neighborhood.

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Lansing Township is nowhere renowned for its physical beauty, so you can imagine how I gasped when I saw this.

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In Lansing Charter Township, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, were the Tollgate Wetlands, a stormwater runoff filtration project constructed in 1998, as viewed from the west side of North Fairview Avenue, opposite Woodruff Avenue.

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In Lansing Charter Township, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, were the Tollgate Wetlands, a stormwater runoff filtration project constructed in 1998, as viewed from the west side of North Fairview Avenue between Hopkins Avenue and Woodruff Avenue.

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In high numerousness dangled orange-yellow leaves from tree branches.

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In Lansing Charter Township, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, were the Tollgate Wetlands, a stormwater runoff filtration project constructed in 1998, as viewed from the east side of Wood Street, south of Hopkins Avenue.

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I love the noise of pouring water.

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In Lansing Charter Township, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, were the Tollgate Wetlands, a stormwater runoff filtration project constructed in 1998, as viewed from the east side of Wood Street, south of Hopkins Avenue.

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Cocktober Fog at manmade wetland.

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In Lansing Charter Township, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, were the Tollgate Wetlands, a stormwater runoff filtration project constructed in 1998, as viewed from the west side of North Fairview Avenue between Hopkins Avenue and Woodruff Avenue.

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"Some places have many, many apartment buildings from the late 1940s and early 1950s that closely resemble this one, but Greater Lansing doesn't so this one's kind of special," I rationalized.

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In Lansing Charter Township, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, was 2320 Marguerite Ave (built in 1951 according to Lansing Township records at bsa.com) on the west side of North Foster Avenue between Marguerite Avenue and Shoppers Alley Street, in the Groesbeck neighborhood.

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Garage and house were united by a gated fence. "I remember we were dancing along to the tubular bells of Blondie's 'Rapture' as we painted everything putty-colored."

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In Lansing Charter Township, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, was a house (built in 1981, according to Lansing Township records at bsaonline.com) at the northwest corner of Marguerite Avenue and North Magnolia Avenue, in the Groesbeck neighborhood.

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Whether the word "ranch" is being applied to a livestock grazing operation, a salad dressing, a brothel, or a one-story house, it reminds us every time: U.S. anglophones are driven to find the one word that means everything, the perfect homonym, in aversion to tyrannies of one-concept-per-word.

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In Lansing Charter Township, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, was a house, built in 1958 according to Lansing Township records at bsa.com, at the northeast corner of Marguerite Avenue and North Magnolia Avenue, in the Groesbeck neighborhood.

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In Lansing Charter Township, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, was a house (built in 1953, according to Lansing Township records at bsaonline.com) on the west side of North Hayford Avenue, north of Marguerite Avenue, in the Groesbeck neighborhood.

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The choice to say "ENTERING" instead of "WELCOME TO" was intended to be subtly hostile to nonresidents of the township.

Charter townships are parasitic jurisdictions with special protections against annexation by neighboring cities, granted by the Michigan state government decades ago. The scene beyond the sign is a good example of a typical landscape in Lansing Charter Township, which consists of six non-contiguous areas that economically strangle the City of Lansing from multiple directions.

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In Lansing Charter Township, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, was a view to the north on the east side of North Foster Avenue, north of East Grand River Avenue. The actual boundary is a short distance to the south, behind the camera.

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A desirable thing about this part of Lansing Township is that the streets are not heavily lined with electrical utility infrastructure, the way they are in nearby areas of the city of Lansing.

See how the street trees don't need to be aggressively pruned to accommodate rights of way of power lines: Fancy!

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In Lansing Charter Township, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, was North Foster Avenue as viewed to the north from the northwest corner of its intersection with Marguerite Avenue, in the Groesbeck neighborhood.

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In all my walks and drives, I had never seen this tree looking so fine.

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In Lansing, Michigan, on October 29th, 2022, was a view of the southeast corner of North Foster Avenue (foreground) and East Grand River Avenue (Highway M-43 and Interstate 69 Business Loop). This portion of Grand River Ave is a boundary of the city of Lansing; across it is Lansing Charter Township.

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Entered in the Jackson County Fair, class "Signs (color)." Placed third. This is a film photo taken with a Fuji TW-300 DATE and Kodak Portra 800.

The unwelcoming sign on one of the houses.

A row of doomed houses on S. Howard St. (Actually it's the end of the 100 and 200 block, but that's less punchy. All the rest of the 100 block was demolished some years ago.)

This sign lets you know why the houses are coming down after 100+ years.