The LPI, in partnership with the Ingham County Treasurer’s Office, completed a study to objectively and empirically measure economic impacts of the Ingham County Tax Auction Sale activities in October 2015.
The LPI, in partnership with the MSU Construction Management Program, conducted a pilot project to determine the feasibility of an integrated asset management system that simultaneously assesses land use conditions.
The LPI Land Policy Research Program was created to generate timely, relevant and transformational research by bridging the gap between science and practice in land and place-based policy strategies that lead to prosperity.
The LPI's Mark Wyckoff is an active participant in the MSU Extension Community, Food & Environment Institute, assisting with strategic direction and guiding some of the priority tasks in the Local Government and Land Use workgroups.
In 2013, Gov. Rick Snyder announced the Regional Prosperity Initiative. The LPI's Mark Wyckoff served on the Regional Reinvention Advisory Committee that helped design this new initiative.
The Planning & Zoning Center provided facilitation support for two charrettes that occurred in the Michigan Avenue/Grand River Avenue Corridor project to create a unified vision and design elements to spur implementation.
The LPI (with the PZC) provided assistance, in partnership with MSHDA, the MML, MSUE’s Greening Michigan Institute, and the MSU SPDC; and other champions of placemaking, to implement the MIplace Partnership Initiative from 2012-2015.
The Planning & Zoning Center at MSU is a multi-disciplinary team of professionals devoted to research, education and consultation on best practices for community planning and development control.
The LPI completed two studies as part of the Rebuilding Prosperous Places Initiative. They were focused on placemaking strategies for prosperity in Michigan cites.
A report detailing the seasonal population fluctuations in the northwestern counties of Michigan's Lower Peninsula was released October 2014 by LPI. This report was prepared by LPI for Networks Northwest.
