Tell the Mayor and City Council

Let’s Rebuild Lansing!

It’s here: the opportunity to Rebuild Lansing

Our city officials have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to invest strategically in strengthening Lansing for the long term.

Together, business and labor have worked with our state officials on a plan to Rebuild Lansing. Now it’s time to put the plan into action.

  • Caring for our neighbors

  • New growth to attract new jobs & opportunities

  • Improving public safety & infrastructure

  • Thriving community spaces

  • Investing in housing options for all

If we do this right, we can create a better Lansing for the sustainable future. Housing. Public safety. Our neighborhoods. Jobs. A revitalized downtown.

Let’s invest in our future. Let’s Rebuild Lansing!

Our impact? It’s city-wide.

    • $130 million to rebuild four schools and renovate Sexton High School

    • $7 million to consolidate Child & Family Charities to one location, at the former Greenlawn McLaren Hospital. Child & Family Charities serves 15,000 families each year, with adoption and foster care, child abuse prevention and shelter for unhoused and runaway youth

    • $4 million specifically for mental health services at Greenlawn

    • $800,000 for a warming center

    • $6 million for Lansing Prevention & Treatment Services

    • $40 million for a new city hall to streamline services & redevelop key areas in the downtown

    • $5 million to create the Michigan Joint Innovation Training Center, giving students and businesses access to state-of-the-art technologies to drive the digital economy

    • $1.5 million to help develop entrepreneurial success through the Macotta Club restaurant incubator located in the historic Knapps Building

    • $1 million to turn the former Frandor Sears into an entertainment hub

    • $175 million to create a public safety hub, encompassing police, fire, and courts under one roof for coordination of emergency response and community services

    • $11.62 million for Michigan Avenue Corridor Rebuild

    • $20 million to develop The OVATION Downtown. A music and arts venue that can host up to 2,025 standing patrons for live music, provide a new home for the Lansing Public Media Center and an abundance of space for community use

    • $5 million to update the Lansing Center, a major economic driver that draws tens of thousands of visitors to our city each year

    • $6 million for improvements & track fix at the Hill Training Center in South Lansing

    • $1.7 million for the Brenke Fish Ladder Amphitheatre

    • $6.2 million to restore Moores Park Pool & Lansing Community pool

    • $1 million to redevelop Waverly Center into a community hub featuring a daycare, commercial kitchen, training courses

    • $7.5 million for the Walter French Capital Housing Partnership - 76 affordable rental units for low-income households, a childcare center including before and after-school programming, and a new headquarters for the Capital Area Housing Partnership to help more low-to-moderate- income families facing housing and financial insecurity

    • $2 million to establish green energy at Prudden Wheel Lofts

    • $1 million to establish attainable residential units at the Iris (former Parks Furniture) $40 million for new downtown housing developments

Some new investments to improve Lansing are well underway, thanks to budget appropriations and grants from the state, but that’s just part of the plan to Rebuild. The Mayor and City Council need to work together on approving the plan for state appropriations to create new opportunities downtown. Business and labor agree: this is the opportunity we’ve been waiting for to position our city for future success.

Let’s Rebuild Lansing!