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Welcome to the City of Lansing Neighborhood Website!

The City of Lansing is excited to launch our new Neighborhoods website. Here citizens will find comprehensive information about living in Lansing. Whether you are a new resident or longtime nei...

Citizen’s Academy Participant Profile: Angeline Boughner

By: Taylor Lynch

Born and raised in the City of Lansing, Angeline Boughner has been an active participant in the Lansing community for a good part of her life.  When asked what aspects of the community she enjoys the most, Angeline replied, &l...

Neighbor Profile: Neighbors of Scott Woods’ Jim DeLine

By: Sydney Taylor

Edits By: Martha Fedorowicz

Jim DeLine is the president of the Neighbors of Scott Woods neighborhood association in Lansing’s 2nd Ward. After retiring from a career at the City of Lansing, DeLine wanted to stay engaged in the com...

Participatory Budget Nights: Empowering Residents to be Civically Engaged

A partnership between the City of Lansing’s Finance Department and its Department of Neighborhoods & Citizen Engagement might not seem like the most obvious of partnerships. According to the City Charter, the mission of the Finance Departmen...

Juice Nation: A Family-Owned Business focused on Getting Lansing Healthy

Talk to any member of the Richard family about their family-owned and operated business for at least five minutes and you’ll undoubtedly hear them crediting the work of another member of the family. “My wife Tameko is the one who knows...

Eric's Markett by Heather Goupil

Location: 838 North Pennsylvania Avenue

Ward: 1

Resident Historian: Heather Goupil

Located at the intersection of North Pennsylvania and East Oakland (formerly Sheridan), the market has served as a Mom & Pop-style grocery for nearly 100 years, continuous...

Aero-Manor by Adam Gave

Location: Aero Manor, Southeast Corner of Waverly and Holmes Road

Ward: 2

Resident Historian: Adam Gave

In the final year of WWII, founders Arthur Phelps & Jacob Kolassa envisioned Aero Manor as the future of private flying in America. The duo optimistic...

Malcolm X in Lansing by Winnie Kamindo

Location: 4705 Logan Street, 401 Charles Street, and an unknown location in the 4th Ward

Ward: 3

Resident Historian: Winnie Kamindo

1929: Malcolm X’s First Home In Lansing (Ward 4-43) In 1929, Earl Little, father of Malcolm X, moved his fa...

Waverly Park by Sarah Spohn

July 4^th 1892 marked the first day of operation f...

The Michigan School for the Blind by Sarah Spohn

Location: 1141 N. Pine

Ward: 4

Resident Historian: Sarah Spohn

The Michigan School for the Blind (MSB) was a public school, on the Northwest side of Lansing, near Old Town. Before the state of Michigan bought the buildings in 1879, the 715 West Will...

First State Capitol in Lansing by Carol Skillings

Location: on South Washington Avenue between Allegan and Washtenaw

Ward: 4

Resident Historian: Carol Skillings

Lansing became the capital city of Michigan in 1847 after selection by the state legislature.  The state’s first constitution prescribed t...