About this Site

The Michigan Avenue Corridor website is intended to be an interactive community for stakeholders of the Michigan Avenue Corridor in the Greater Lansing Area of Michigan: residents, community/neighborhood organizations, small businesses, students, policymakers, and others invested in the corridor are welcome. Rather than create a static website in which information about community meetings and planning could be provided with minimal opportunity for feedback, we have created an interactive website through which stories could be shared, information could be gathered, and issues can be framed. While we envision constructive uses of the website, we also realize that there could be unproductive uses of the website as well.

As a result, we have created principles for constructive use of the website:

  • When responding to someone's ideas critically, make sure to note the merits of their ideas.
  • Criticize ideas and issues, not the persons who are advocating those ideas.
  • Do not criticize someone's post based on their grammatical skills.
  • Do not criticize someone's post based on their use of personal experience versus other types of evidence (such as up-to-date statistics, or research).
  • Appreciate all types of expertise, not just professional expertise. Non-experts have valuable insights and perspectives to offer.
  • Be willing to have your ideas challenged if they are public. Not everyone will agree with your ideas, or might have an alternative view than your own.
  • Instead of simply venting, propose some tentative solutions to community issues that you are experiencing and be welcome to the possibility of other solutions and points of view on the issue.

Aknowledgements

This site was created for the Michigan Avenue Corridor Improvement Authority, which grew out of a discussion between many people. We'd like to thank the following people for making this possible:

  • Ginny Haas, Director of Community Relations at MSU
  • Faron Supanich
  • Brian Anderson, Director, Lansing Economic Development Corporation
  • Lori Mullins, Senior Project Manager, City of East Lansing
  • Matt Brinkley, Assistant Planner, Lansing Township
  • David Hollister of President and CEO of Prima Civitas
  • Denyse Ferguson, Vice President, New Business of LeapInc
  • Joan Nelson, Executive Director, Allen Neighborhood Center
  • Jeffery Smith, Project Manager, New Economy Initiative, City of East Lansing
  • John Melcher, Associate Director, Center for Community & Economic Development, MSU
  • Karen McKnight Casey, Director, Center for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, MSU
  • Jeff Grabill, Jim Ridolfo, Michael Wojcik for technical support from the WIDE Center.

Thanks also to the MSU Telecommunications Department and the students of TC 491:

  • Domonique Baul
  • Calvin Bushor
  • Zachary Church
  • Laleah Fernandez
  • Samuel Grinczel
  • Jeremy Harder
  • Doug Maier
  • Eric Maniloff
  • Matthew Penniman
  • James Perrine
  • Kyle Petersen
  • Jessica Rivait
  • Hillary Swantek
  • Noah Ullmann

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