LANSING — More than two years after city leaders placed ceremonial shovels in what Mayor Andy Schor called “pretend dirt,” Dominic Cochran stood on the edge of a muddy, puddled lot downtown and saw a future backstage for the likes of Michigan’s own Lord Huron and Stevie Wonder.
Cochran, the founding director of the The Ovation Center for Music and Arts, is anticipating a spring start date for heavy-duty construction tasks like putting in the foundation before watching the site on South Washington Avenue, across the street from the Michigan Lottery offices, go vertical with concrete and steel.
“If every day was like this for the next month, we could start now,” he said on Dec. 23. “Now we are truly at the point where as soon as the weather breaks in the spring…”…