News From Downtown

Good Neighbors: The Greater Lansing Optimist Club is making a positive change
LANSING, Mich. — They say a positive mindset brings positive things. I’ve got proof that’s true, and it’s this week’s Good Neighbors. With shovels and axes in hand, these optimists, as they like to be called, are volunteering to help transform three rain gardens...

Summertime Social Comes to Downtown Lansing
Get Social with Lansing Social Districts this summer. Grab your friends, neighbors or a co-worker, then pick-up a social district drink to join us within Lansing Social Districts. Each week we will meet up on Thursdays from 4:30pm-6:30pm at locations across Downtown,...

Take a look inside City View Apartments. New complex at the former Lake Trust building to open this fall
From the kitchen of a new apartment in the former Lake Trust Building, a wall of windows provides a dazzling view of downtown Lansing that developers hope will win over potential residents and bring new liveliness to the city. The two-bedroom apartment on the sixth...

People & Places of Downtown Lansing – A Novel Concept
The people and places of Downtown Lansing are what make the community. We sat down with A Novel Concept to discuss their new...

Lansing Made Makes its Way to Old Town
Lansing Made Makes its Way to Old Town LANSING, Mich.— Lansing Made has made “a love of all things Lansing” its primary objective since its inception in 2012. Now, the popular retail store is ready to expand that concept as it moves closer to the heart of the Capital...

Capital City Sweets is making downtown sweeter with ready to eat cookie dough
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Things are getting sweeter in downtown Lansing! One new business is taking the best part and making cookies and making it into a real treat. Capital City Sweets offers ready to eat cookie dough in various flavors! It’s the latest business part...

Metro Melik 517 opens in Old Town
LANSING, Mich. — Walking into Metro Melik 517 is like walking into a maze filled with Lansing merchandise. "Being in Lansing, there’s not a lot of gift shops for Lansing. You go to New York and there’s an I heart New York T-shirt at each corner, so we wanted to bring...