Flowers for Lansing, MI

Stand under the capitol dome and you're at the pivot Lansing grew around: the state office towers rise on one side, Old Town's brick storefronts sit a few blocks north across the Grand River, and REO Town climbs back up along Washington Avenue where the auto plants once ran. The two rivers — Grand and Red Cedar — knit together right at the center, and the sending map spreads out from there. Much of it lands on the south side in 48910 and along Cedar, Pennsylvania, and Martin Luther King, with steady get-well runs to UM Health-Sparrow on Michigan Avenue and, farther down, McLaren Greater Lansing. A driver here reads Michigan Avenue construction, capitol-event closures near the Boji Tower, and the East Lansing student surge by the MSU line — but the city is compact enough that an afternoon order still makes a north-end porch or a downtown desk with time to spare.

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