Welcome Lansing, the capitol city of Michigan, to the waterfront revolution.
Mayor Virg Bernero recently established a committee of 72 people and charged it with developing a plan to reclaim the parking lots and forgotten old buildings - the great omnipresent pillars of the Rust Belt society - that litter the banks of the Grand River. The effort already is attracting interest from developers on the east and west coasts, as well as Chicago and Germany.
Read all about in a piece by Thomas P. Morgan in today's Lansing City Pulse, the local alternative paper.
