Downtown Development Authority

ELi's Chris Root tells you why East Lansing’s City Council gave thumbs down to the Royal Vlahakis proposal and tells you what's next for the DDA's Evergreen Avenue properties.

What's on tonight's agenda? Royal Vlahakis, the sale of pot and of booze, and decisions about a lot of student housing projects in East Lansing. ELi's Alice Dreger gives you a run-down.

In advance of City Council's vote tomorrow on the "Park Place West" site plan, ELi has learned that lead developer Paul Vlahakis has misrepresented an MSU endorsement of this project.

We didn't see this coming. ELi's Alice Dreger tells you what happened at today's meeting.

East Lansing's DDA will likely wait for Council to act on the Royal Vlahakis proposal for the Evergreen properties before it votes whether to invite proposals from other developers. ELi's Chris Root reports.

Why did East Lansing’s City Council have to vote again this week on the Center City District lease payment terms, when that deal was supposedly all wrapped up over two years ago?

City Council strengthened Mayor Mark Meadows’ position, as well as that of future East Lansing mayors, with its split vote last night. ELi’s Alice Dreger provides the details.

ELi's Alice Dreger brings you the latest on the proposal for two 14-story towers on Bogue Street, bookending the Farmhouse Fraternity. The developer's goal is to build housing for 1,773 more students.

Ruth Beier thinks the DDA properties are the wrong place for a building as tall as those going up along Grand River Avenue. But Mark Meadows wants to hold back on the upzoning in order to use it as a negotiating point with other developers. ELi's Chris Root reports.

This Tuesday, Sept. 10, East Lansing's City Council will decide whether to rezone for big redevelopment just north of Peoples Church. What are seen as the potential benefits of and problems with such rezoning?

ELi's Chris Root describes the near-unanimous Planning Commission decision in opposition to the latest Royal Vlahakis proposal to develop properties on Evergreen Avenue.

East Lansing's Downtown Development Authority voted 7-4 today to end developers' Royal Vlahakis's exclusive redevelopment deal on the Evergreen Avenue properties. ELi's Chris Root explains the votes and tells you what comes next.

Developers from Royal Apartments and Vlahakis Development will ask Thursday for another round of extensions on their exclusive deal to purchase and redevelop publicly-owned land on Evergreen Avenue. We bring you a special report from ELi's Alice Dreger and Chris Root.

More billboards in East Lansing, more sorority houses, more alcohol sales downtown, more revenue for the City, more coffee near the Amtrak station, more rental licenses: all that plus the eBay land deal, depending on how the votes go. ELi brings you up to speed.