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Tagged: Old Town

Arts & Culture
11:15 am
Thu September 13, 2012

Stateside: Lansing neighborhoods bringing life back with art

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REO Town's is undergoing a makeover to help make it more walkable and bikeable.
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The Board of Water and Light's old smokestacks near General Motors Grand River Assembly Plant.
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Artists during "Art Attack" made art out of this pile of materials taken from a condemned home in REO Town.
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REO Town's past

Ryan Wert is a young entrepreneur who’s been living in REO Town for the past 8 years. REO Town is a neighborhood on Lansing’s south side that used to be home to the R-E-O Motor Company. This was a vibrant working class neighborhood, but now the main street is pretty vacant except for a few new office buildings.

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