Continuing (belatedly, it’s been a hard couple of months) my walk around MSU’s campus, I also collected this Granger stamp in the Beal Botanical Garden, near the Library.
Also, here’s a bonus squirrel who was hanging out nearby. I wish I’d had a good camera on me, instead of just my tiny phone’s toy camera.
I almost always stick to the south side of the road when walking past Sparrow on East Michigan Avenue, but continuing my recent effort to record stamps in front of Sparrow, I decided to cross. The stamp from last time was in front of the Professional Building, but this one is in front of Sparrow proper, or at least its parking deck.
Yesterday’s was dated 2004 and this one 2005, but no doubt they were both part of a big Sparrow expansion project that started in 2003.
As the news broke yesterday evening that 126-year-old Sparrow Hospital will be acquired by the University of Michigan’s health system, I decided to mark the end of an era by walking to Sparrow and recording a sidewalk stamp. It’s one I first noticed a long time ago and kept putting on the back burner and then eventually forgot about. I checked and re-checked my spreadsheet (yes, I have a spreadsheet), since I was having trouble believing I had never done it. It’s in front of the Sparrow Professional Building on East Michigan Avenue, which is across the street from the main Sparrow building, connected to it by a skywalk. The new sidewalk likely dates from a big expansion project that Sparrow started in 2003.
Granger Construction is based on Aurelius Road on the south side of Lansing and health care construction is one of their areas of expertise. Their Web site disappointingly does not include a company history.
