Shortly after we moved into our house in Leelanau County in 2021, news came that a new housing development was coming to the corner of M-72 and Bugai Road, a partnership between Habit for Humanity and New Waves United Church of Christ to provide affordable housing, something that is needed around here.
The roads to the subdivision were put in later that year, and then… nothing happened. For a long time.
But things are on the move! The first two houses have started going up and progress is being made.
That area has seen a lot of changes since we moved in. Edge 72, the apartment complex, was just an empty piece of unused field on the southwest corner when we arrived. And a non-functioning windmill was on the northeast side. And the solar panel array expanded quite a bit last year.
I’ve heard rumors of other changes to that area, such as a gas station on the south side of the road (in Grand Traverse County). But there is no doubt the metropolitan area of Traverse City is expanding west.
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