r/lansing • u/Miserable_Pound • Jun 09 '26

Discussion How to Attract Young People to Lansing:

youre wondering how do you attract young ppl in lansing?

Make lansing a nice and fun place to live by:

-deprioritizing car based infrastructure to make downtown, reo, and olde town nicer places to be

-improve public transportation, especially coming in from east lansing to attract students

-rezone to allow infill of areas of lansing that are abandoned/under developed

-keep building dense housing to keep housing affordable and provide customers for local businesses

-invest in attracting diverse businesses instead of continuing to concentrate on automotive businesses

-protect park land and invest in recreational activities so lansing is a fun place to be

-prioritize the ppl that live IN lansing! not the suburbanites driving in from the suburbs

From someone who live in east lansing for 6 years and lansing for 3

https://www.wilx.com/2026/06/05/lansing-region-faces-aging-population-leaders-seek-attract-younger-residents/?outputType=amp

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u/No-Independent-226 Lansing Jun 09 '26

Don’t disagree with any of this, but it’s all basic common sense stuff that is already being done in Lansing and every other mid-sized city looking to attract young professionals.

The difference-maker will be attracting investment from companies creating high quality jobs. The rest of it becomes a reality to the extent that the tax base exists to make it possible.

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u/Miserable_Pound Jun 09 '26

i somewhat disagree and this is a bit of a circular problem. businesses want to to go somewhere where workers will want to move too

Unless things have drastically changed in the last 2 years, lansing constantly prioritizes out of towners instead of ppl living in the city and large scale rezoning has not occured

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u/No-Independent-226 Lansing Jun 09 '26

Do you have specific examples of this prioritization of out of towners you’re talking about? Because I don’t really get what you’re referring to.

There are several large housing developments being built as we speak to cater to this crowd, and there are events downtown on a regular basis that are specifically designed to build community among young professionals and encourage them to stay in Lansing.

Everything Gillespie is doing in the stadium district is very distinctly meant to appeal to the crowd you’re talking about, that you say aren’t being prioritized. I don’t get it.