Bluebird building to be razed

  • The sun will soon be setting for the last time on the Bluebird building in Leelanau, but a “right size” restaurant is being planned by the Telgard family as a replacement. Enterprise photo by Alan Campbell
    The sun will soon be setting for the last time on the Bluebird building in Leelanau, but a “right size” restaurant is being planned by the Telgard family as a replacement. Enterprise photo by Alan Campbell
Some tears seem sure to be shed when bulldozers arrive at The Bluebird Restaurant and Tavern building, which this weekend will host what could be a final toast to its glorious life. Tears for a building, you ask? Then you have never had an intimate relationship with “The Bird,” which during its heyday served at once as Leland town crier, mentor and sage. “It’s like wow, that’s going to be…

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