People who live on the Eastside make more than a great location choice; they enjoy the best of an urban lifestyle.
Within walking distance of schools, parks, shopping, churches, and medical facilities.
Easy access to CATA bus lines.
Convenient to MSU, LCC, Cooley Law School, the Capitol, and downtown Lansing.
Quick access to major highways.
The Eastside is comprised of both typical midwestern style and quaint homes, featuring colorful facades and interesting architectural details. But, it's what's on the inside that counts.
Over 8000 households make up this affordable, friendly, and walkable community. The area is home to younger families and long-time residents who have grown up here, raised their families, and now choose to enjoy their retirement in the neighborhood.
The diversity of the Eastside is a prominent reason for people to choose to live here. Artists and auto workers, medical professionals and graduate students, people of all cultural and ethnic backgrounds enjoy a lively mix of ideas, traditions, and lifestyles.
Commitment to Community
On the Eastside, you'll find many people committed to preserving and improving their community and celebrating its uniqueness, people who work with neighbors to develop creative solutions to problems and challenges, and people who are just plain good neighbors.
The Eastside Neighborhood Organization (ENO) is an umbrella group of over twenty active neighborhood associations that serve nearly every part of the Eastside. These groups not only add names to the faces that pass by on the street but offer ways to encourage friendly relationships through participation in many activities:
Spring flower planting
Summer picnics and block parties
Organized youth sports
Clean-up days
Old-fashioned caroling through the neighborhood
These are just some of the things that make it easy to get to know your neighbors, and have fun at the same time. This well-developed network of organizations and the people who participate in them help to maintain the strong social fabric and sense of belonging that have long characterized the Eastside.
ANC works in close partnership with ENO and a multitude of organized neighborhoods. To find out which neighborhood you live in, contact us or look at this interactive Google map of the Eastside(updated Oct. 2008).
ABC (Association for the Bingham Community): President Denise Kelley, contact by email at abcneighborhood@sbcglobal.net. Meets the first Monday of odd-numbered months at 6:00 PM at Pilgrim Church, 125 S. Pennsylvania.
Eastern Neighbors: Chris Silsby, 484-8615. Meets 3rd Tuesday of each month at 6:30 with a potluck.
Eastfield: Beth Monteith, 702-9776, email beth_monteith@me.com. Meets 2nd Thursday of even-numbered months, at 7 PM at 215 Custer.
ENO: Nancy Mahlow, 372-3249. Meets 1st Wednesday of each month from 7 to 8:45 PM at Room 213, Foster Community Center.
FAIR: Ruth Leyrer, 372-9455. Meets 1st Thursday of the month, 6:30 PM at Allen Neighborhood Center.
Foster Your Neighborhood: see their website for information on joining their Yahoo group mailing list. Meets the third Wednesday of the month at Foster Community Center at 7:00 PM. See their website for a more detailed calendar of their events.
Green Oaks: Julann Vitone, 488-4783. Meets 4th Thursday of each month (except Nov. and Dec.), 6 PM at Christ Lutheran Church. Website: greenoaks.jandyonline.com
Groesbeck: Bill Nelson, 371-3888. Meets 2nd Wednesday of every other month, 7 PM at Post Oak School.
Hunter East Residential Organization (HERO): Meets the fourth Tuesday of every month at 6:30 at the Allen Neighborhood Center. Contact Cindy Marek at 374-6426 for more information.
Hunter Park West: Currently reforming. Meetings to be determined.
Holmes Street School Community Association: Adam Pitcher, 487-1581. Meets 2nd Thursday of every month at 6:30 at ANC. See their website for more info: holmesstreetschoolcommunity.com.
Regent Oaks: Angela Mills, 775-0744. Meets the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30 at ANC.
Marshall Park: Michael Wetzel, 485-6282.
Oak Park: Judy Hackett, 371-4214. Meets 3rd Tuesday of each month at Allen Neighborhood Center at 6:30 PM.
PLACE: Nancy McCrohan, 290-8028, meets the second Tuesday of every month at 6:30 PM at ANC.
Potter Walsh: Juanita Chapman, 484-3751. Meets the second Monday of every month at 6:20 PM at Faith Fellowship Baptist Church, 1001 Dakin St.
Prospect Protectors: Corie Jason, 482-8756, wahlcori@msu.edu, or Nellie Churchill, 484-4122, meets the third Thursday of even numbered months at 6:30 at ANC (call for confirmation).
Shepard Street United Neighbors: Pat Pendarvis, 372-7261.
We Care: Grace Middaugh. Meets 3rd Monday of each month at 6:30 PM.
Eastside Summit
In 2001, the Eastside summit produced a plan for the Eastside titled "Growing in Community". This plan has provided the blueprint for much of what we do at Allen Neighborhood Center. You can download it in PDF format or as a Word document.
The official City of Lansing web site has announcements and links to city services.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Check out the Potter Park Zoo.
Community Builder's Toolbox
ANC has compiled a guide to community organizing for anyone interested in started or growing a neighborhood organization. Sections of the guide are available for download below. All the files are in PDF format and open in a new window. We also feature community resources each month on page 5 of the Eastside Monthly.
