Sorry for the unplanned absence; I spend Easter with family and that got me behind in a way that spilled into the week. Speaking of Easter, on the Saturday before, I walked in the Hippity Hop 5K held at Potter Park Zoo. The course is usually on the River Trail, but much of the Trail was flooded this year so they had to figure out an alternate route. They ended up having us walk out of Potter Park on the entrance drive and then head into the nearby Sycamore Park neighborhood. Although I was walking in the street along with everyone else, I couldn’t help noticing a lot of new-looking sidewalk, with stamps, scattered around the neighborhood. Eventually I decided I had to know whether it was a contractor I’ve seen before, so I jumped out of the flow of race traffic onto the sidewalk to see and was rewarded with a contractor name I didn’t recognize. I stopped to take photos at the cost of probably 30 seconds of finishing time

The only Cioffi Construction I can find is based in Akron, and I can’t imagine that one would be doing work in metro Lansing. The stamp uses a template that’s very familiar to me as many contractors in the 2010s and 20s have used it, along with the City of Lansing Operations and Maintenance division. This particular stamp is at the north corner of Clifton and Harding, but there are a lot of other Cioffi stamps in the vicinity that I assume are all connected with the same round of sidewalk replacement.