Marble Highlights

This neighborhood is a peaceful, safe and quiet place to live as well as great - and affordable- place to raise a family.  The neighborhood is ethnically diverse with a mixture of students, seniors, families, MSU faculty and other professionals.  Visually, the streets of Marble are lined with mature trees and well-maintained yards with nice landscaping and flowers.  The neighborhood is close to every amenity offered by East Lansing highlighted by good city services and positive interactions with P.A.C.E and trash and recycling staff.

Reasons why I like living in the Marble neighborhood...

A summary of resident responses to an e-mail request for input regarding  “Highlights of and reasons why I like living in the Marble neighborhood”

Easy to walk or bike neighborhood and it has proximity to:

- Shopping

- Grand River Ave. and other main streets

- Schools

- Parks

- MSU (and its many amenities for all ages)

- Grocery store

- Community Music School

- Play equipment

- High school and MSU athletic games

- Downtown East Lansing

- Recreation (sledding hill, woods, fields and MacDonald pool)

- Mall

- YMCA

- Churches

- Restaurants

Other comments included:

- Various styles of housing

- Mature trees line streets

- Well-maintained yards with nice landscaping and flowers

- Nice, friendly, helpful neighbors

- Safe, pleasant, quiet neighborhood

- Pedestrian lighting makes it great for strolls day and evening

- Integrated neighborhood with ethnic diversity and mix of students, senior citizens, families, faculty and non-MSU people

- Good neighborhood association to express views and improve neighborhood

- Can hear train whistle at night

- Calming effect when leaving Hagadorn to enter neighborhood streets

- Affordable housing (one of few neighborhoods in the city)

- Great place to raise family

- Good city services; positive interactions with PACE, trash and recycling staff

- It's so damn pretty

Recommendations:

- Sidewalks, particularly for east/west streets

- Resolution to issues at Burcham Park and long-range plan

- Pocket park at Mt. Vernon/Moorland