Comments on: New Hope for Sugar Loaf Mountain http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/ News, Weather, Events & Photos from Leelanau County & Northern Michigan Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:19:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Joel Diotte http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7536 Joel Diotte Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:21:05 +0000 http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7536 Great news about the Loaf. I can see Sugar Loaf from my house and would really like to see something happen there. I am a builder with Frontier Group LLC and my wife works int the restaurant business so we are interested in the possibilities of any development. Brad, please let us know if we can help in any way. Joel Diotte 231-620-3534 Great news about the Loaf. I can see Sugar Loaf from my house and would really like to see something happen there. I am a builder with Frontier Group LLC and my wife works int the restaurant business so we are interested in the possibilities of any development. Brad, please let us know if we can help in any way. Joel Diotte 231-620-3534

]]> By: Bill Endres http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7436 Bill Endres Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:01:50 +0000 http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7436 Best of luck Brad - Perhaps I can help in some way. Each and every helper will add up and with enough help you can be successful! Bill Endres Action Electric & Telecommunications Inc. Traverse City, MI Best of luck Brad - Perhaps I can help in some way. Each and every helper will add up and with enough help you can be successful!

Bill Endres
Action Electric & Telecommunications Inc.
Traverse City, MI

]]> By: Missy Agnello http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7415 Missy Agnello Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:28:59 +0000 http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7415 I am so excited for any improvement to the Resort. My children and I spend only the summers at the townhouses because we live in Florida but I have great memories of Sugarloaf because I grew up in Grand Rapids. My girls have a great affection for the resort and I would love to bring them up during the winter so they can love both the summers and the winters there. The area holds a special place in our hearts and I know my children will always cherish there time in the wonderful area of Leelanau. I feel privaleged that I have been able to expose my children to this lovely area filled with wonderful people. Missy Agnello-Palm Beach, FL I am so excited for any improvement to the Resort. My children and I spend only the summers at the townhouses because we live in Florida but I have great memories of
Sugarloaf because I grew up in Grand Rapids. My girls have a great affection for the resort and I would love to bring them up during the winter so they can love both the summers and the winters there. The area holds a special place in our hearts and I know my children will always cherish there time in the wonderful area of Leelanau. I feel privaleged that I have been able to expose my children to this lovely area filled with wonderful people.

Missy Agnello-Palm Beach, FL

]]> By: Linda Lockwood http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7390 Linda Lockwood Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:06:18 +0000 http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7390 Thank you Brad Lutz for considering this. Huge undertaking. Locals as well as those that are no longer local but grew up there and remember it fondly and completely support the concept, must stay positive. Good things happen to good people and places. Sugar Loaf can be a shining star in Leelanau again, with the right combination of people, leadership and cooperation. Thank you Brad Lutz for considering this.
Huge undertaking.
Locals as well as those that are no longer local but grew up there and remember it fondly and completely support the concept, must stay positive. Good things happen to good people and places. Sugar Loaf can be a shining star in Leelanau again, with the right combination of people, leadership and cooperation.

]]> By: Karl Kitchen http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7367 Karl Kitchen Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:35:34 +0000 http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7367 I had some old Sugar Loaf stickers with the resort name written in blue Bavarian-style script on a white background (that looked a lot like the lettering on the brick wall out front). I only had two left and put them on my ski helmet. If anyone has any more of these stickers, please let me know - maybe we can start printing them again! kkitchen63(at)gmail.com I had some old Sugar Loaf stickers with the resort name written in blue Bavarian-style script on a white background (that looked a lot like the lettering on the brick wall out front). I only had two left and put them on my ski helmet. If anyone has any more of these stickers, please let me know - maybe we can start printing them again! kkitchen63(at)gmail.com

]]> By: WILD CHERRY RESORT http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7351 WILD CHERRY RESORT Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:28:18 +0000 http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7351 Behind you all the way Brad. If there is anything thatWild Cherry Resort/Spinniken Orchards can do to help just give us a call.. Its really nice to see that LOGO again I still have a patch that i bought way back in high school. All of us locals all lived most weekends there and have many stories to tell. Glad someone has there **** together hehe GO RAD BRAD Behind you all the way Brad.
If there is anything thatWild Cherry Resort/Spinniken Orchards can do to help just give us a call..

Its really nice to see that LOGO again I still have a patch that i bought way back in high school.
All of us locals all lived most weekends there and have many stories to tell.
Glad someone has there **** together hehe GO RAD BRAD

]]> By: Andrew McFarlane http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7336 Andrew McFarlane Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:52:12 +0000 http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7336 I don't think it's giddyness necessarily. Just a little bit of hope that the Loaf can be pulled out of its decade-long mire. Although I guess I did say "Yee-Hah!" <a href="http://www.record-eagle.com/local/local_story_031100036.html">Today's Record Eagle</a> adds: <blockquote>Brad Lutz said his biggest fear in buying long-shuttered Sugar Loaf Resort isn't its dormant equipment or aging facilities. He's more worried about disappointing scores of area residents and recreational enthusiasts who've seen their hopes of a revived Leelanau County resort dashed time and again.</blockquote> I don't think it's giddyness necessarily. Just a little bit of hope that the Loaf can be pulled out of its decade-long mire. Although I guess I did say "Yee-Hah!"

Today's Record Eagle adds:

Brad Lutz said his biggest fear in buying long-shuttered Sugar Loaf Resort isn't its dormant equipment or aging facilities.

He's more worried about disappointing scores of area residents and recreational enthusiasts who've seen their hopes of a revived Leelanau County resort dashed time and again.

]]> By: Mark Pilarski http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7333 Mark Pilarski Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:19:58 +0000 http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7333 By the way, my comments above were in no way meant to be derogatory toward Mr. Lutz. Anyone who’s willing to tackle Sugar Loaf gets my support and best wishes. It’s Wickstrom I’m worried about. By the way, my comments above were in no way meant to be derogatory toward Mr. Lutz. Anyone who’s willing to tackle Sugar Loaf gets my support and best wishes. It’s Wickstrom I’m worried about.

]]> By: KK http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7325 KK Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:27:51 +0000 http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7325 Let's see where this leads. If it goes well, where do I mail my resume'? Let's see where this leads. If it goes well, where do I mail my resume'?

]]> By: lex http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7324 lex Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:25:18 +0000 http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7324 I'm going the optimistic skeptic route....if that exists. It's a huge task at hand, but still when I saw that article title I got a nice grin. I'm going the optimistic skeptic route....if that exists. It's a huge task at hand, but still when I saw that article title I got a nice grin.

]]> By: Mark Pilarski http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7322 Mark Pilarski Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:08:48 +0000 http://www.leelanau.com/blog/new-hope-for-sugar-loaf-mountain/#comment-7322 I’m not sure how anybody can get giddy yet since it was only “an option to buy” and Mr. Lutz further states “that even if the purchase agreement he signed with Sugar Loaf owner Kate Wickstrom is consummated — and he puts those odds at only “one-in-three, at best” — bringing the resort back to life is still a long shot.” I think I’ll stay a skeptic. I’m not sure how anybody can get giddy yet since it was only “an option to buy” and Mr. Lutz further states “that even if the purchase agreement he signed with Sugar Loaf owner Kate Wickstrom is consummated — and he puts those odds at only “one-in-three, at best” — bringing the resort back to life is still a long shot.” I think I’ll stay a skeptic.

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