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This is a town loaded with neighborhood entities – neighborhood watches, neighborhood associations, neighborhood centers – and this can be confusing. To clarify, most neighborhood watches and associations are all-volunteer-driven organizations, many of which focus their efforts on an area of several square blocks. They may affiliate with LPD’s Neighborhood Watch Program or the Leaders in Neighborhood and Community Service (LiNCS) or both. New groups form all the time, while others, have been around for several decades and advocate for an entire quadrant of the city.

In contrast to these, Allen Neighborhood Center is a non-profit community development agency. We are staffed and funded, and we are governed by a Board of Directors that sets the direction for the organization. ANC works in close partnership with a multitude of organized neighborhoods.

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.

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.

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Eastside

For all things Eastside and further information about neighborhood organizations, check out these quick links:
Map of Eastside Neighborhood Groups
Lansing Community Builders Handbook
Lansing’s Neighborhood Associations and Civic Organizations
Eastside Neighborhood Organization (ENO)
Lansing Neighborhood Watch

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.

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.

Community Builder’s Toolbox

ANC has helped to compile a guide to community organizing for anyone interested in starting 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.