Eyesore of the week

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815 Baker Street, Lansing

This 105-year-old, 2,024-square-foot commercial property in Lansing’s Baker-Donora neighborhood was the subject of a City Pulse Eyesore entry just over a decade ago. Today, little has been done to remedy its dilapidated state. It’s been owned by the Fort Lauderdale-based Gridiron Group since they bought it for $6,500 from Hot Light Production in 2012. While it’s been vacant for much longer, the city’s Code Enforcement Office cited it as a “damaged structure” in 2019. They issued a “failure to register” fine later that year, plus another ticket for failing to correct the issues in 2020. That same year, the owners offered the property to the Ingham County Land Bank for “more than staff thought it was worth,” Ingham County Treasurer Alan Fox said. “Their opinion was that the building was not salvageable and should be demoed. I presume there was no additional consideration because of the onset of COVID.” Fox said the Gridiron Group is current on taxes, adding that they own about 13 other Lansing properties, including three nearby at 811, 812 and 813 Baker St.. Efforts to contact the owners were unsuccessful.

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  • Electro

    It seems that if Lansing is not able to redevelop land faster and mitigate blight, then it will loose to the ex-urban areas, where new homes are being constructed, basically on farm land. Can eminent domain be used to speed up this process? The property owners seem to have made a bad bet if that can't sell it to a land bank -- Let's move on.

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