We’ve already shared news for the first six months of 2023. The remaining front page news of the Enterprise is below.
JULY 6, 2023
A new housing initiative led by local business owners in Northport, currently in the conceptual design phase, is well on its way to progressing into potential reality. The current plan would include three buildings across 5.9 undeveloped acres on North Warren Street between W 6th and 7th Street. A total of 48 units would make up the design, and would stay within the prevailing height restrictions while combining multiple dwellings into “highly efficient” 16-unit buildings. There would be approximately 81 feet of eastfacing frontage on Warren Street, which is anticipated to be used for only pedestrians and drive access in the proposed development area. In addition, the parcel has 667 feet of westfacing frontage along the Northport Creek Golf Course. Public feedback for the proposed development called “Fairway Residences” has so far been positive and welcoming, with a goal to help bring affordable housing to the Northport area. *** At a time when much of the recent news surrounding Leelanau’s biggest fruit crop has been negative, local cherry farmers Phil and Sarah Hallstedt are getting a little love from outside the “Cherry Capital of the World.” The New York Times (NYT) will be at Hallstedt Homestead in Leelanau Township, Saturday, July 15, for a free cherry picking experience and food demonstration that puts cherries front and center. *** If you live in Glen Lake Community School District, or near it, somebody will be giving you a call to gather intelligence about how the community feels about a potential millage increase for projects to modernize the school. How they got your number? Well, that’s a different story. Mouthpiece Communications, a public research firm based out of Lansing, has been hired by the school to survey the roughly 2,700 voting households in Glen Lake School District to probe if it’s the right time for a millage raise, and if so, how much?
