Genesee School's New Owner to Reveal Plans

Tim Hunnicutt, with his organization Zero Day, now owns the former Genesee Street School building at Butler and Genesee Streets. He will be at our meeting Thursday to tell us what's next. By May 1, he expects to have moved into the building and have his program started. Catch up on the fast-moving Michigan Association of Broadcasters' plans for the Ottawa-Butler property, and an upcoming Butler Corridor Laboratory to address common desires for our residential and business neighbors.

Andy Schor, our new representative at the legislature, will be speaking Thursday, March 28, at the DNA meeting, 6 p.m., at the library. We'll have reports on purchase of the Genesee Street School building, the Michigan Association of Broadcasters' plans for the Ottawa block, Reutter and Ferris Park proposed activities, and a report on our new Safety Committee. And there will be more. Please join us.

A new venture called Zero Day is hoping to purchase the Genesee St school and make it their national headquarters. It would be a center for the training of U. S. military veterans in the crafts of historic building restoration. The building itself would become a teaching tool as the vets replace the long-gone cupola and reopen the north entrance. Veterans will live on the second floor. The purchase is expected to be on the school board agenda March 21.

Dominic Cochran of the Lansing Media Center will tell us how to make a video, how to borrow the equipment for it from the media center, and his vision for the media center's future.  Join us at 6 p.m. tonight (Feb. 28) at the downtown CADL library on the third floor.  We'll elect officers, get updates on lots of doings downtown, and have a jolly good time.

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ALL NEW ANNUAL MEETING: NEW TIME, NEW PLACE,
CRANKED UP AUCTION ITEMS

Our annual blow out meeting is Saturday, Jan. 26 but at a new time and place: 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. (with free lunch) at the Cooley Center Building, 9th floor. It's out biggest event of the year. Hear about what's going on in the area and jump into the Awesome Audible Auction. Newsmakers will speak; we'll catch you up on what we've been doing, and tell you how you can get involved in 2013. For more information: cochranpr@acd.net, or 517-281-5919 for information.

We've worked so hard, we've decided to play a little.  So join us Thursday, Dec. 20, 6 p.m., for a holiday pot luck dinner at the home of Gretchen and Bob Cochran, 403 N. Sycamore St., at the corner of Sycamore and Shiawassee   Bring some food that represents something of your past and a little story to tell about it.  Even chips will do.

Nov. 15. 6 p.m., Downtown CADL Library, Kalamazoo and Capitol, third floor conference room.We're gathering a week early this month to avoid a conflict with Thanksgiving. Hear about the President's Award, updates on Genesee Street School project; DNA Sign Corps; Annual meeting blowout coming Saturday, Jan. 28; Holiday party plans and lots more. 

The Downtown Neighborhood Association meets Thursday (Oct. 25). Our headliner is Brian Adams, leader of the Lansing Makers Network, a consortium of those who make things:  homebrewers, crafters, costume makers, performers, chefs, geeks, gearheads, those from the tech culture and the art scene and more.

Preservation Lansing: We are tired of lamenting lost historic buildings. So we’re working to honor the developers and individual homeowners who are saving them. We’ve taken nominations from across the city, and will be giving awards to three people on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 5 p.m. at the historic Genesee School, 835 W. Genesee St. It will be a celebration, done up in steampunk style. The LUVS (Lansing Unionized Vaudeville Spectacle) will be entertaining. Costumes are welcome.