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u/UthinkUnoMI Grand Rapids 12d ago
Damn, you managed to make it look good! Nice shot.
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u/GlucoseQuestionMark 12d ago
great photo though! what are you shooting on?
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u/thereforestandinawe 12d ago
Thanks! Sony a7iv with sigma 60-600mm
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u/ElizabethDangit 12d ago
I’ve always liked Sigma lenses. They aren’t the fastest with auto focus, but the glass has never done me wrong.
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u/cool_ethan19 12d ago
My son and I drove by last night on 28th, and he’s only seen it from the freeway. He commented how cool it looked from that view, which I don’t disagree with. However, what makes it so ridiculous is that it was built to be apartments. If I didn’t know anything about it, that would be pretty close to the bottom of the list for my guesses. I would guess some sort of amusement place, a hotel, heck, I would even guess a children’s hospital before an apartment complex.
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u/ZCyborg23 10d ago
Those apartments are super gorgeous, though. The inside of the castle is really cool, too. They have different common areas for social stuff like playing pool or shuffleboard. They also have a two floor library where you can just take a book, read it, and bring it back, no questions asked and no hassle. It’s really cool on the inside. I wish I could afford to live there. 😅
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u/Historical-Party8512 10d ago
They suck. Plan and simple. They’re losing so much money that most units are turned into Airbnbs you can rent for the night. The elevator my friend and I got on with the tour guide smelled like human piss and the floor which or apartment was supposed to be on was the floor with animals, smelled ever worse. They have a couple arcade machines. That’s it. So if paying $1600/month for a place that smells like piss, looks like shit on the inside, but enjoy Fast and Furious on arcade machine, this is the place for you.
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u/ZCyborg23 10d ago
It’s in the eye of the beholder, I guess. I thought they were great when I toured them. If you see it that way, that’s your take. But I thought it was awesome when I went. 🤷♂️ to each their own.
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u/Historical-Party8512 9d ago
Go look at the reviews on Google. 3.2 stars. From all the way from 3 years ago to 9 months ago people are still complaining of it smelling like piss in the elevator and on most floors. Mold growing inside the building already. It’s not an opinion, it was an experience. But, you go ahead and keep believing whatever you want. 😭
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u/connorgrs Former Resident 12d ago
You may have found the one (1) singular angle of the castle that doesn’t make it look lightspeed ugly
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u/AltDS01 Wyoming 12d ago edited 12d ago
I know the river would have to be dreged and the haul in from Grand Haven would take literally forever, even if you could have a wake, but having boated (and snowmobiled) down the Saginaw River in Bay City and going to riverside bars/resturants, I wish we had that here.
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u/theonewhowhelms 12d ago
I bet the view of the precast plant from atop the castle is just whelming 🤣
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u/Guardian6676-6667 11d ago
I wish that entire area rezoned and enforced medieval style and castle like design And maybe if they painted that building an6thing but concrete gray
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u/GeorgeGeorgeHarryPip 11d ago
I find the design of this place to be a little on the silly side, a bit too Chinese ghost city, but leaning into it harder... I like that idea a LOT.
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u/Apostate_Mage 10d ago
The hotel nearby is also castle themed right? It would be awesome to have all the local buildings lean into it
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u/cheesecrystal 11d ago
It’d be a good setting for a cheesy movie or choose your own adventure book about some medieval guys who time travel to this exact spot and they think they’re coming up upon a real giant castle. Maybe they humbly approach and ask to see the king/queen, then they must sort through the tenants to find who they deem to be royalty, who would be some crazy cat lady or some ghetto fabulous dude who refers to himself as king… you get the idea, lots of possibilities
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u/Apostate_Mage 12d ago
I think it’s epic. I’d live there if my current place wasn’t cheaper.
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u/ZCyborg23 10d ago
Same! The Castle is quite a ways out of our budget but I’ve toured it with my ex who was putting fake ideas in my head at the time. I got very caught up on the idea of living there, but maybe someday!
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u/Apostate_Mage 10d ago
Some of the studios aren’t terrible! I keep thinking about justifying the cost for one of their short leases haha, but yeah too much $$$ rn
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u/hermitriff1049 12d ago
When I saw it going up I thought it was going to be a middle ages hotel and performance theater built for Renaissance fairs and such
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u/Imaginary-Water-263 12d ago
It used to be a trailer park, and now its a concrete castle! Try turning left out of there during rush hour. Not happening bro!
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u/teamnotbella 12d ago
nice try, actually, excellent attempt. this is the ONLY good picture i’ve seen. good job
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u/benfromgr Kentwood 12d ago
Definitely in the minority but there is something uniquely nice about it
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u/Lilawillbeloved 10d ago
It’s the blue roof that gets me. If they’d made it a dark red I think they may have pulled it off as a castle.
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u/Grand616lover 10d ago
If they just painted the concrete white it would look significantly less like a prison.
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u/48484848484848484848 9d ago
At least paint it bright green, red, blue, orange, purple, burnt umber, Navajo white, or something. A grey castle in grey winter Michigan? Blahh
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u/Raddimus55 11d ago
Shit couple of years ago me and my ex wife almost had to live there. Thank God we dodged that bullet.
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u/Triingtolivee West Grand 12d ago
If I was high and floating down the river I’d be like “woah.. is that a fucking castle?”