LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Plans to build a controversial mega industrial site in Clinton County are dead. For well over a year, Eagle Township was considered as a potential location for the site, but now, the Lansing Economic Area Partnership, or L.E.A.P. and its partners are no longer marketing the land.
Residents previously showed up to meetings to voice their opposition to the project, and on Wednesday, 6 News learned opposition from both residents and elected officials caused L.E.A.P. to pull the plug.
Eagle Township Supervisor Troy Stroud hoped the news was true.
“I would hope, and so would most of the majority of Eagle, that this means that the Eagle mega-site is dead. Yes that is definitely our hope,” said Stroud.
The Lansing Area Economic Partnership says the scrapped plans are because of opposition from people like Stroud. In a statement, the group said plans to build a “manufacturing innovation campus” are no more due to the pushback they have received.
One part of L.E.A.P.’s statement read the following.