r/lansing • • 1d ago

What's Going on This Week

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This is a weekly post for any events or goings on around the Capital area community this week.


r/lansing • • 19h ago

Biweekly Selling/Trade/Business Promotion

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This is the designated recurring thread for all commercial activity within the community. To keep the main subreddit feed focused on discussion, please post all listings, trades, and business advertisements here.

How to List:

To ensure clarity for potential buyers or partners, please use the following format:

  • [Category]: (e.g., [FS] For Sale, [WTT] Want to Trade, [ISO] In Search Of, [PROMO] Business)
  • Item/Service: (e.g., Vintage streetwear, music production lessons, local bakery)
  • Price/Details: (Include a specific price or "OBO" for "Or Best Offer")
  • Location/Pickup: (General area only do not post specific addresses)

Commerce & Conduct Rules:

  • Keep it Civil: All negotiations must remain respectful. Lowballing is part of the game, but harassment is not.
  • Transparency: If you are selling an item, you must disclose any flaws or damage upfront.
  • No Illegal Items: Listings for restricted items (firearms, prescription drugs, etc.) will be removed immediately and may result in a ban.
  • Limit Frequency: Please do not "spam" the thread. One post per business or individual per bi-weekly thread is preferred.
  • No Animal Sales or Trades: The listing, sale, trade, or "rehoming" for a fee of any live animals is strictly prohibited in accordance with Reddit’s site-wide Content Policy. Posts attempting to sell or trade pets, livestock, or exotic animals will be removed immediately and may result in a permanent ban.

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  • User Responsibility: Participation in meetups or financial transactions is at your own risk. The r/Lansing moderation team and Reddit are not responsible for any personal injury, property damage, financial loss, or disputes arising from connections made in this thread.

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r/lansing • • 10h ago

General Today Was A Good Day

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Felt like Ice Cube today rolling around the Lansing/E. Lansing area.

Today definitely seemed kinda odd.

Rollin’ down E. Saginaw at 4:46pm. Everyone going 40. Using their blinkers. Stopping’ for reds.

Stopped off at Foster Community Center for early voting. In and out in 5 minutes. Rocked the hell out of the vote!

Drove on toward campus. Everyone going the speed limit. Even hit a 4-way stop on campus where a student was crossing and every car kept their proper order despite waiting for the student to cross. Next level stuff there!

More driving to the MAC. Hit two lights where people easily could have ran it but they stopped.

Damn! What’s going on Lansing? I feel like I jumped a time line and landed in an alternate Lansing.

Stay chill Lansing! Today was a good day!


r/lansing • • 7h ago

🚨 MISSING CAT BONKIN 🚨

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🚨 MISSING CAT — PLEASE HELP FIND BONKIN! 🚨

🐾 PLEASE SHARE AND CROSS-POST! 🐾

Bokin is missing, and we need our Lansing community’s help to bring him home safely!

Bokin got out of his apartment on the 2000 block of East Michigan Avenue in Lansing on Monday night, October 26.

She is a beautiful, light-colored cat with darker markings on her face, ears, and paws with rings around her tail. We are desperately hoping for her safe return.

❤️ HOW YOU CAN HELP:

🐱 If you live or work near East Michigan Avenue, please keep an eye out for Bonkin.

🔎 Check underneath porches, behind bushes, around garages, and in other quiet places where a frightened cat might hide.

📸 If you spot hher, please take a photo if possible and contact his family immediately. Please don’t chase him, as frightened cats may run.

📢 PLEASE SHARE AND CROSS-POST THIS MESSAGE! Especially to Lansing neighborhood groups, Eastside community pages, local lost-and-found pet groups, and anyone living or working near East Michigan Avenue.

📞 CONTACT ZOE OR HUNTER by responding here. Thank you.

Even if you don’t live nearby, sharing this post could help it reach the person who finds Bonkin.

❤️ Every share matters. Let’s help get Bokin home!

#FindBokin #LostCat #LansingMichigan #LansingEastside #MissingCat #LostPetsLansing #BringBokinHome

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r/lansing • • 12h ago

General Faded Glory. A Sign of the Times?

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The flag above the Comerica Bank Building has been tattered for weeks now.

I hate having to commute downtown for literally no good reason, so I can spend at least 8 hours of my life doing what I could have done at home. And on top of the commute, all of us downtown workers are greeted with this ugliness.

Silver Bells is coming up in a month.

I emailed the property manager, but just wanted to see if anyone else knows how to get this flag retired. It is sad.

Symbolic and sad.


r/lansing • • 5h ago

October 26th Lansing City Council Meeting Recap

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Noted at Monday's Lansing City Council meeting:

  • Council passed an ordinance requiring cryptocurrency ATM kiosks to register with the city and clearly display warnings about the nature of digital currency (this was requested by member of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP))
  • They also passed an ordinance to allocate more city budget to an existing program to help pay qualifying homeowners make emergency repairs to their homes
  • There was a thorough presentation by local property management company Simtob requesting tax break payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) programs to continue renovations of over 400 workforce priced housing units across four properties around the city
  • There was a hearing for updating the noise ordinance to make it easier to enforce punishment of violating loud noises, especially from industrial properties and modified vehicles
  • The planned use of funds to pay for automatic license plate reader (Flock) cameras was removed from a state police grant

For more details about the meeting you may listen to a conversation about it with second ward city council member Dr. Deyanira Nevarez Martinez on the latest episode of the podcast "What Lansing Council".

https://youtu.be/cJZbSmQFZ3Q


r/lansing • • 15h ago

Lansing LockDown Holt data center “engagement process”

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Anyone know more about this announcement of a data center “engagement process” in Holt?! I can’t find anything except this tweet a friend sent (https://x.com/dnbethleblanc/status/2115100808257683896)

ETA: LEAP issued a press release with more info (https://www.purelansing.com/news/leap-lighthouse-heop/)


r/lansing • • 17h ago

General Dont trust the mail with your ballots!

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I dont care who you are voting for, well, I do, but thats not the point here/ Please hand walk in your ballots, or use a dropbox. I have a piece of mail I mailed on 10/20, certified letter to a business, non election related. According to tracking, it's been sitting in a distribution center for a week. I called to follow up, and all I can be told is "we are experiencing processing delays due to work being done on production centers"

This is an in state piece of mail, and it's now "officially" just been sitting 2 hours away from Lansing, due to "work being done on processing centers"


r/lansing • • 3h ago

Local handbag repair?

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I have a vintage hysteric glamour bag with a small leather strap that needs repair/replacing. Does anyone know of a place I could bring it in to? Thanks in advance!


r/lansing • • 13h ago

What do do between Detroit and Lansing?

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Will be flying into Detroit and looking for some smaller things to do for a few hours as we make the drive to Lansing.

Any must do or must see things to do that’s not totally out of the way?


r/lansing • • 10h ago

Personal Places to consistently hoop indoors.

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I am out of shape and 30 years old and trying to get back in shape, I played basketball my whole childhood and kinda fell out of it when my life got busy in my 20’s. Now I’m looking to get back to playing consistently and my wife’s child (so my kid as well, just trying to explain that I did not have him when I was 14 lol) is 16 and just starting to want to play basketball. So I’m looking for someplace that has runs somewhat consistently and will be okay with someone just learning the game, he’s very obsessed with playing but he is not very good and would like play for his school team even though it would be difficult to do. I let him know how hard that would be to make a high school varsity team while just learning how to play but he has decided he wants to try! Looking for anywhere that hosts like weekly open gyms, that would be great!


r/lansing • • 2h ago

News Amid pushback, $10B+ data center project near Lansing promises to ‘flip the script’

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r/lansing • • 3h ago

Sportscaster slurring speech

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I don’t usually pay attention to the news when my husband’s got it on, but Fred Heumann was slurring his speech pretty badly tonight. When I mentioned it, my husband said he was stumbling over words, too. Anyone else notice this? I know there rumors in the past but I had never noticed anything before.


r/lansing • • 4h ago

The Training Factory (Okemos)

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Newer to Lansing and drove past The Training Factory (on Jolly). Curious if anyone has a membership and feedback on their gym experience at this location. Eventually, it would be nice to find another gym bro to lift with at the Factory. Thanks!


r/lansing • • 1d ago

Pics of balls, and some other things

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Was at the end of my run today and thought some parts of downtown looked kinda cool. Also gave me an excuse to sandbag in that last mile.


r/lansing • • 1d ago

News Lansing official says other agencies accessed Flock data, despite police chief’s claims

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r/lansing • • 17h ago

MP Social Vibes? Halloween Party Friday

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Hello, I've never been to MP Social before, but I saw they're having a Halloween event on Friday. Just trying to find out what the vibes are like there and what the typical age demographic of people that goes there is. Thank you.


r/lansing • • 1d ago

I’ve seen some crazy driving in the Lansing area

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But a couple hours ago I saw the most insane driver of all time that nearly caused 5 or 6 head on collisions on Holt Rd heading toward Waverly Rd

I was driving down Holt Rd just past the high school, I was stuck behind a gravel truck going about 5-10mph below the speed limit. There were 4-5 cars behind me, one guy a few cars back could not be bothered so decided to pass everyone including the gravel truck.

Well you see the problem with this is that there was lots of oncoming traffic in the opposite lane. The guy didn’t seem to comprehend this and caused several cars to swerve off the road to avoid getting into a head on collision. I will give the guy props, when the guy got to the light at Holt and Waverly he did use his blinker to turn right.


r/lansing • • 11h ago

Development Building a Suburb of Nowhere

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Capital Area District Libraries, the Rosa Building, and the Despoiling of an American City

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r/lansing • • 1d ago

Politics Early Voting Locations for Lansing and East Lansing.

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r/lansing • • 1d ago

Events Mutal aid clothing swap

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Hi everyone we are hosting a clothing swap at the fledge from 12-6 on Oct 31st. Everyone is welcome to stop by and grab what they need. We will also be accepting donations during the event. if you aren't able to make it to the event and would like to donate you may DM me and I'll see if we can meet up before the 31st to pick up your donations.


r/lansing • • 1d ago

Fox 47 issues, Bounce instead.

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Is anyone else getting Bounce instead of Fox 47 in antenna? We first noticed it when we wanted to watch the Senate debate and it's still showing Bounce today.


r/lansing • • 1d ago

Berm Construction Recommendations

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Looking for a company that can construct a berm for sound reduction along a busy road. Would a regular landscaping company be able to do this? Would this require an engineering firm? Not exactly sure who to contact.


r/lansing • • 1d ago

Outdoors & Recreation The fish ladder is so relaxing at night

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It's a shame that with recent events I was looking over my shoulder, but still a super nice place to chill on a good night ride.


r/lansing • • 1d ago

Infant Car Seat Inspection

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Where are new parents in the Lansing area getting car seat inspections done? I called the Fire Department and Health Department and they both gave me the impression they hadn't been asked in a long time and told me they'd call me back. ​I figured there must be a place that does most of the inspections for the area that I don't know about.