From The Lansing State Journal
EAST LANSING – The city of East Lansing will not receive a $27 million federal stimulus grant officials wanted to build a transit center.
But the project isn’t dead.
The city, along with Michigan State University
and the Capital Area Transportation Authority, will forge ahead with plans to redevelop the 35-year-old Amtrak station at 1240 S. Harrison Road.
Now, though, they’ll have to implement the project in phases – and they still plan to reach out to the federal government
.
The city has requested $7 million in federal appropriations for the first phase, said Lori Mullins, the city’s community and economic development administrator. Any appropriations that are being considered now would be for next fiscal year.
It would include a new train station, improved parking and circulation on the site and a new platform. Later phases call for a parking structure, relocating MSU facilities from the site to campus and improved CATA facilities, Mullins said.