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LANSING — Electricity still runs throughout the century-old building’s seven stories, illuminating the lime green carpets and elegant ballrooms as if the
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LANSING — Electricity still runs throughout the century-old building’s seven stories, illuminating the lime green carpets and elegant ballrooms as if the
LANSING — Electricity still runs throughout the century-old building’s seven stories, illuminating the lime green carpets and elegant ballrooms as if they haven’t sat vacant for over a decade.
Lansing has more than its share of abandoned legacy buildings, from empty schools to old factories and cavernous K-Marts, but the 1924 Masonic Temple building at 217 S. Capitol Ave. downtown is in a class by itself.
An investment by MSU in downtown Lansing, like the school has made in Grand Rapids and Detroit, would be a boon for a beleaguered downtown.