A CONTROVERSY BREWING over signs in downtown Marquette. The planning and zoning department has been telling some building owners that their tenants--the merchants--have too many signs. Too much square footage on the outside of the buildings and too much in the windows. (An artistic design in a window is considered a ... Continue Reading
Booming Farmers Market, Border Patrol Raid, Super One Facelift, Solar Power Popularity, Garden Bouquet’s Metaphysical Move, and Students Contribute to the City
RECORD NUMBERS AT Marquette's Farmers Market. Fifteen hundred shoppers have been stopping by on recent Saturdays as long as it wasn't raining. That's huge, more than the 1100, on average, who attended last year, and far, far more than when the market first moved to the Commons in 2007. The vendors are clamoring to get ... Continue Reading
The Homeless in Marquette: They’re Becoming Everybody’s Problem
"IT'S THE ELEPHANT in the room that nobody wants to talk about." Those are the words of Marquette Police Chief Blake Rieboldt. He's talking about the homeless people in town, and more specifically about the problems some of them are creating for his police force. In 2015 and 2016 combined, his officers responded to ... Continue Reading
Big Addition to Downtown, No Big Changes at Babycakes, Nobody at the Bayou, a One Man Gym Downtown, a Diabetic Study in Harvey, a Yellow Facelift for the Wooden Nickel, and a Dubious Award for Ishpeming
LOOKS LIKE MARQUETTE will soon be getting a major new tenant in the heart of downtown. The Chamber of Commerce and the UP Masonic Association will be signing a memorandum of understanding in the next week or so to develop a "coworking" space at the Masonic Square on Washington Street. It's a big deal. Five thousand ... Continue Reading
Babycakes, a Downtown Institution, Is Sold
KIM DANIELSON WILL not be reporting to work at Babycakes on Tuesday. That's because she has just sold her coffee shop/bakery/restaurant, a downtown favorite for almost three decades, to the Huron Mountain Bakery. "I'm sure I'll miss it," she says, "but it just felt like it was time to move on. I've had a lot of offers ... Continue Reading
New York Times Features the Upper Peninsula
OKAY, THIS IS a pretty big deal. Travel Marquette had to keep it quiet until today, but now that it's been posted, we can talk about it. The New York Times (yeah, that one--probably the world's most important newspaper) today posted an extensive online article, "36 Hours in the Upper Peninsula of ... Continue Reading
Engine Works Decision Upcoming, Riverside Move Delayed, Gophers Closes, Old Hospital Future Still Undetermined, 109th District Democrats Are Split, Streetcar Rocks, and Michigan Law Nabs a Driver
DECISION TIME COMING soon for the old Engine Works building on Lakeshore Boulevard. For the last year or so, a Chicago development group had been planning to transform it into a small, upscale retail center but they never really moved on it. Now they've got an engineering team looking at the structure to determine what ... Continue Reading
Channing Tatum, Dia de los Tacos, License Plates, Coco’s, Albino Deer, and Lumi
SO WHAT'S THE real story with Channing Tatum and the U.P? He was spotted here, right? On a plane, right? And it was really him, right? Right. And heres the story. He's been celebrating his wedding anniversary at the highly private, highly exclusive Huron Mountain Club, outside of Big Bay. He's been a guest of one of ... Continue Reading
Recovery Room Changes, Forestville Ticket Sales, Marquette County’s Uniqueness, Arrivals and Departures at WLUC, and Tennessee Williams Comes to Town
A MANAGEMENT SHAKEUP at the Recovery Room. Patrick Bibb, the managing partner at the pub, and his girlfriend, Danielle DeWitt, the kitchen manager, walked out precipitously last Thursday. Not surprisingly, there were major problems over the weekend. The kitchen closing down, for one. All of it the result of a ... Continue Reading
Iron Bay Is Crazy Busy, Marquette Hotels Are Pricey, VR Is Staying, SmartZone and Invent@NMU Are Flush, Heroin Is on the Rise, the Township Finds a Way, and Blueberries Look Promising
BUSY DOWNTOWN. PEOPLE everywhere. The epicenter seems to be the recently opened Iron Bay Restaurant and Drinkery. Co-owner Joe Constance is reluctant to talk about numbers but concedes that the restaurant is averaging more than 600 customers a day. Some days, it's hit 800 plus. Crazy volume. Double what he was ... Continue Reading
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