So Google picked Kansas City as the home of the world’s fastest broadband. Congrats to them! While it was nice to hope that a giant benevolent corporation would sink a billion dollars into our region for advanced and experimental telecommunications infrastructure, it’s time to get a little more realistic about how we give ourselves a competitive advantage in our information infrastructure.
To that end, the Greater Lansing Quick Response Team is re-convening, this time under a new moniker, to pick up where we left off. We’re pulling the …

UPDATE:
PARK(ing) Day rocked!  If you couldn’t make it out, Bryan Robb was kind enough to time-lapse it for you.  Enjoy!

Park(ing) Day 2010: Lansing, Michigan from Bryan Robb on Vimeo.
When: Friday, September 17th
Where: Downtown Lansing
PARK(ing) Day is an annual, worldwide event that inspires city dwellers everywhere to transform metered parking spots into temporary parks for the public good. To do our part, Accelerate Lansing is partnering with Let’s Save Michigan to temprorarily transform three parking spots in Downtown Lansing into an urban oasis.

Join us Friday, September 17th, to celebrate our …

Thanks to Capital Area Michigan Works for bringing Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, Rep. Joan Bauer, Melissa Horste from Sen. Levin’s office and local legend Tony Baltimore from Rep. Rogers’ office together this morning!  The open format allowed people from groups like GRC, Accelerate Lansing, Spotlight MI, The Arts Council, and a whole host of other pro-Lansing and Pro-Michigan groups to get the ear of our legislators and let them know our priorities.
Afterward, Tom Ruis of GRC and MSU Young Alumni Assoc, Amanda Vander Muelen of Spotlight Michigan hung back and talked …

Round 2!  Many of you might remember when we started this pr0ject last summer – Luke Pline and Chris Van Wyck are moving full-steam ahead with collecting your pictures for the project and getting it rolled out as soon as possible.  Luke will be setting up photo shoots in the next few days and Chris, one of the creative geniuses Greater Lansing is happy to have, is going to handle the finished product.
Luke is looking to set up a ‘meeting’ at the Tin Can in the next week to go …