Hurley Park… Ready for Inspection Looks like a nice park down there in South Marquette. New playground equipment, fresh landscaping, a refurbished basketball court … ready to go for the kids’ first day of summer vacation. There’s just one catch. It still has to pass inspection. Yup. An inspector, who apparently ... Continue Reading
Housing Issues Continued… and Word on the Streets
Housing and the Hospital Property THE REDEVELOPMENT OF the old hospital property is in the news again, and probably will continue to be in the news until somebody turns a key and moves in. But, to what? That’s the question on everybody’s mind now that the city has approved the brownfield plan and there appears to be a ... Continue Reading
Memorial Days
IT'S BEEN THREE DAYS since the most recent shooting took place in one of our nation’s schools. Or has it? Has something happened today that we haven’t heard about yet? There may not have been a mass school shooting since Tuesday, but hundreds of Americans have been shot or killed by gunfire in the days since. ... Continue Reading
Hospitals and Hot Dogs
FIRST, LET'S TALK ABOUT the former hospital property and what’s going to happen there. Then we’ll get to the hot dogs. The future of the hospital property came into a little better focus this week as the NMU Foundation announced the development firm they have selected to handle the project. And, drum roll ... Continue Reading
The next Traverse City?
IS MARQUETTE BECOMING the next Traverse City? That’s the question we’ve been asking for the last 20 years or so. And what ordinarily sounded like nothing more than a little bluster coming from the coffee klatch crowd, suddenly seems a little less absurd. Tourist traffic, while off the charts last summer, is ... Continue Reading