Leelanau News
updated Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Leelanau Hills: A Steal of a Deal
The Ticker from the Traverse City Business News has a feature on the Leelanau Hills development that explains how contractor Bob Mitchell of Bob Mitchell & Associates of Kingsley became the new owner of Leelanau Hills in the the BayView development in Suttons Bay.
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The Ticker from the Traverse City Business News has a feature on the Leelanau Hills development that explains how contractor Bob Mitchell of Bob Mitchell & Associates of Kingsley became the new owner of Leelanau Hills in the the BayView development in Suttons Bay. He wasn't getting paid:
So Mitchell took legal recourse and sued developer Marcus Yono of Brighton for the $82,000 due to him. Imagine his surprise when no one bothered to show at the sheriff’s sale, leaving him the owner of the 45-acre development.
…According to Kit Wilson, the Suttons Bay Township Assessor, the property’s SEV is $3,196,970, resulting in a true value of $6,393,940. Quite a buy for that $82,000 lien.
Mitchell intends to have units at the development available for sale by next June or sooner.
It's 74 degrees with light rain after some early thundershowers at 8:10 AM at Leelanau Coffee Roasting in Glen Arbor. The record high for a September 1st was 96 in 1953 with the record low of 40 set in 1991. Rain is likely today, maybe with a thunderstorm with highs around 80. Rain & wind is in the picure for tomorrow too. The Labor Day Weekend forecast looks a little worse today with partly sunny skies, a chance of showers and ripping west winds on Friday (gusting up to 45), partly sunny and upper 60s on Saturday and sun and 70 on Sunday and upper 70s on Monday.
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This Saturday (September 4th) at 9 AM there will be a Port Oneida Run/Walk along a 5K barn to barn trail run. Runners are offered a unique tour of the Port Oneida Rural Historic District, through the pastoral landscape of farmsteads from the late 1800s and along the shores of Lake Michigan.
The run benefits Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear, a nonprofit partner of the Park dedicated to saving the historic structures and landscapes in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
"I wanted to believe this was going to happen," Wickstrom said. "But he's obviously without the means to do anything."
Smith's website stated, "Unfortunately, at some point it is not healthy to (pursue) a deal," and he was pulling out of the project.
"I'm like the sixth buyer here, and I've got the farthest," he said.
Really? I wasn't aware that there were varying degrees of "nowhere" you could get to. Now we're left at the point where we were when Liko crashed into the scene this spring with one very important difference: a bunch of people are paying attention to Sugar Loaf.
Tom took this shot of Victoria Creek Park in Cedar last month. See it bigger and see more in his Up North Michigan slideshow.
I have to say that if you're looking for a nice canoe or kayak trip, Victoria Creek is an excellent choice! Read about the Cedar River Preserve from the Leelanau Conservancy!
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The Leelanau Farmers Markets are celebrating 10 years with an anniversary celebration at the Suttons Bay Farmers Market on Saturday, August 28 beginning at 10:30. The celebration includes music, children's activities, prizes and refreshments.
As always, the market will feature local produce and products, all grown or produced within 60 miles of the markets. Customers can expect to find for purchase fresh local fruits and vegetables, cut flowers, pastured pork, eggs, honey, dried fruits, maple syrup, lavender, baking mixes, soups, granola, art, soaps, jewelry, knitted items, baked goods and more.
The Leelanau Farmers Markets began in the summer season of 2001 with help from the Leelanau Agricultural Alliance and MSU Extension with the goal of improving the marketing of local farm products and preserving county farmland. There are now 6 markets in beautiful Leelanau County. The markets are an important part of local agriculture and bringing business to the towns in which they reside.
The 1st annual Third Coast Bicycle Festival is a weeklong celebration of 2 wheel fun in Traverse City that features something for every bicycle enthusiast.
Thursday features a celebration of bicycles and bicycle fashion with a cruise on Front Street at 7:30 PM by the State Theatre in your best bike duds. Prizes will be given for best dressed, best bike, best combination bike/fashion, and best bike family followed by some short biking films and aspecial screening of Bicycle Dreams – The True Story of The Race Across America by Stephen Auerbach.
On Friday there's tons of fun including a hill climb, Kids Bike Rodeo and downtown sprints at 6:30 PM and the Twin Bay Cyclocross Race at 5:30 and the Two Wheel Technique trials at 6:30 at The Village at Grand Traverse Commons.
Saturday afternoon features the Cherry Roubaix Criterium Road Races downtown. As someone who's checked this the last two years, I have to say that this is about the most entertaining racing event I've seen as cyclists tear around a loop at high speed. There's also Roller Sprints and a Cyclocross Race at the TC Microbrew and Music Festival at The Grand Traverse Commons.
Here's video from the winter cyclocross to take you out!
Rachael is an award winning singer-songwriter with an amazing voice and is joined by her good friend Josh of Steppin in It . They'll also be bringing along a third Davis – Dominic John Davis, and if you can make it, do it – their sweet, soulful sound will make your week a better place!
Here's Rachel, Josh, Dominic and the Wilson Boys doing Shout Sister Shout:
Leelanau Hills: A Steal of a Deal
The Ticker from the Traverse City Business News has a feature on the Leelanau Hills development that explains how contractor Bob Mitchell of Bob Mitchell & Associates of Kingsley became the new owner of Leelanau Hills in the the BayView development in Suttons Bay. He wasn't getting paid:
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