[nfbmi-talk] MSB Campus Plans Move Ahead

[Mary Wurtzel]

Hi Terry,

I do appreciate the information about the school for the blind campus.  We
had a committee in the mid nineties which we lovingly called the MARC
committee maintain a residential choice.  We spent a few years fighting to
save the school, not as it was then but we had many other ideas for things
to do   wit h the property which would have benefitted the blind guy
community.  Obviously, we ;lost the battle.  
I had a rather tumultuous childhood, so for me, the school was the stable
place in my life.  I cannot walk on that campus now, but I do hope it will
be put to some good use.  
Thanks again, Terry.

Mary

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Monday, May 20,2013

School for the Blind discussion

Ingham County Land Bank, Great Lakes Capital Fund to hold public meeting on
School

for the Blind plans

by

City Pulse Staff

lansing/imgs/hed/art8862widea.jpg

The Abigail building on the School for the Blind campus. City Pulse file
photo.

Monday, May 20 - On Tuesday, the Ingham County Land Bank and the Great Lakes
Capital

Fund will hold a public meeting on plans to repurpose the School for the
Blind campus

west of Old Town.

The 40-acre property in Lansing's Old Forest Neighborhood has sat mostly
idle for

the past 17 years. The Land Bank and Capital Fund, the two main property
owners,

will use a blight removal grant from the state to demolish the mid-20

th

-century dorms and service buildings that ring the west end of the campus.

The goal is to make the site's oldest buildings - the Abigail, built in 1916
and

a 1914 high school - "development ready," Tom Edmiston, senior vice
president at

the Capital Fund,

told City Pulse in April

.

The campus was first developed in the 1850s as the Michigan Female College.
The campus

became the Michigan School for the Blind in 1879.

The state sold the campus to the Lansing Housing Commission and the
Mid-Michigan

Leadership Academy, which still occupies about a quarter of the site.

 

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