08-04-2025
‘Tower on the Grand' groundbreaking held today in Lansing
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — City leaders hosted a groundbreaking at the future site of Lansing's newest and tallest building.
It's called 'Tower on the Grand' and developers say it's the first step towards a for the city.
The tower is planned to be 320 feet tall, with 28 stories of retail and residential space.
Eventually, developers say close to a thousand people will be living there, right in the heart of the downtown district.
'It'll be the tallest building in downtown Lansing, and it'll be 335,000 square feet with an attached parking garage, almost one acre of outside space. Utilization space for the tenants,' said Paul Gentilozzi of Gentilozzi Real Estate.
At street level, the building will bring new retail opportunities to the Lansing area, and the developer says the residential part will have a sky lounge, pool, hot tubs and even a golfing simulator.
Lansing has nothing like that right now, and city leaders tell me it's a step in the right direction.
'With housing, it means you have people who are downtown. It means you're going to have want more businesses that want to come in, whether it's shops or restaurants. We're seeing that now,' said Lansing Mayor Andy Schor.
Downtown Lansing is currently dealing with a 27% office , which is more than twice what it was before the pandemic.
But developers say that problem should be solved by the time the building opens.
'We have a vacancy because the state of Michigan is still doing a work-from-home program. Eventually, the governor will bring those people back and that will fill the office space and make more demand for the multifamily,' said Gentilozzi.
City officials agree, saying if you build it, business will come.
'You know 300 units just in this building, 570 total for all 5 projects. The, the, the business community comes, they follow that because they want to be able to serve that and they want to be able to to make money and there's people who are moving around. So it all works together and creating a new a new building shows vibrancy and it shows. This is where People want to be,' said Schor.
The money for this project comes from a public-private partnership, and some of that will go back to the community right away.
Developers tell me the project will bring millions of dollars in construction costs directly to Lansing workers.
The building is set for completion in a little more than two years.
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