Source: Rachel Greco via Lansing State Journal
LANSING - Pat Gillespie remembers feeling a giant pit in his stomach. It was 2012, and he had just finished a phone call with Tom Dickson, then-owner of the Lansing Lugnuts.
“Hey, just FYI,” Dickson told him. “You might want to cool your jets developing around the stadium district.”
“Why?” Gillespie asked, suddenly worried.
The Lansing developer’s company, the Gillespie Group, was working on two new developments near Lansing’s minor league baseball stadium – the area it had branded “The Stadium District.” Four years earlier, in 2008, Gillespie finished his first mixed-use development directly across from the stadium off Michigan Avenue – apartments, restaurants, retail and office space included.
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