Former MSU student wants Lansing to "go green"
Published: April 30, 2009Neighborhood: Eastside
Cori Bruder is a former Michigan State University student living just off campus near Michigan Avenue on South Francis Avenue. While she no longer attends school at MSU, she still frequently visits friends on campus and in downtown East Lansing – so her connections via the Corridor are still strong.
“I still hit up the bars up and down Grand River, but I also go to a few in Lansing like Stober’s and Mac’s. Basically wherever I know I’m going to meet up with some cool people, I’ll be there.” For Cori, the nightlife in the Corridor is a standout, because it brings the community together for shows, drinks and good times.
Cori, who works at the Cottage Inn Pizza in South Washington Square in Lansing, says her favorite thing about the Michigan Avenue Corridor is the people throughout.
“I love my housemates, I love all the regulars I see at Mac’s and of course I love all my friends that still go to school at MSU. If I ever moved that’d be the one thing I’d miss the most for sure.”
One thing Cori would change about the Corridor – particularly the West side of it in Lansing – would be to make a bigger push for more greenery on Michigan Avenue. A self-proclaimed “hippie,” Cori laments at the lack of plant-life in some areas of Lansing where concrete is the norm.
“So much of what I see when I drive to work is grey, but it’s like, when I drive to campus there’s way more green.” Cori has strong hopes that the Michigan Avenue Corridor Project will help to implement more aesthetically pleasing “green” landscapes to the area.
