LochenHeath – the exclusive waterfront golf development on the shores of East Grand Traverse Bay – could soon become a private golf club again. Owners have greenlit construction of upscale “stat...
Does Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act protect gay and transgender people from employment discrimination? It is a question which has been hotly debated in 2018. This past May, the Michigan ...
Tax assistance. Product labeling, rebranding and marketing. Surveying land. These are services that can be small business building blocks, but sometimes are not so easy to afford. Enter Venture North ...
“Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.” – Hesiod, Greek poet, ~800 BC “Timing is everything.” Have truer words ever been spoken? That well-worn ...
What is northern Michigan’s most valuable asset? According to Kevin Query, of local commercial real estate company Three West, the answer might just be farmland. There are many reasons that Michigan...
Last year, I spoke to the Front Street Irregulars, a group of local men and women who run many of the most successful companies in the region. Among their goals is improving the business climate so mo...
Rising interest rates have been a boon to savers, who have seen little return on their savings accounts and certificates of deposits at banks and other financial institutions in recent years. “Rates...
When Eric Gerstner decided he wanted to rehabilitate the Tru Fit Trouser building on Woodmere Avenue, neither it nor the surrounding area were especially desirable locations. Today the corridor includ...
State Savings Bank in Frankfort and Central State Bank in Beulah operated separately in Benzie County under common ownership for more than 30 years. But that all changed in October. The two banks have...
I’ve been there. There are probably only a couple of you and only so many hours in a week. I vividly remember watching Saturday parades go down Front Street from the window upstairs, our baby boy na...
