People have been calling Traverse City a foodie town for years and that buzz isn’t going away. Despite staffing challenges, supply chain hurdles, and a pandemic that hit restaurants particularly hard, TC’s food and beverage scene isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. In 2022...
They keep the shelves at your grocery store stocked with food, deliver the kegs that keep the beer taps flowing, and help local restaurants and caterers feed armies of foodies. Yet food and beverage distributors often go overlooked. This month, the TCBN spotlights just a...
Does the concept of house flipping still exist in a chaotic real estate market? For the better part of a decade, the idea of buying a fixer-upper, renovating it and selling it quickly for a huge profit has seemed like a premiere example of the American...
When Warren Call talks about the MBA program Michigan Tech University (MTU) is bringing to Traverse City this fall, he’s not shy about describing it as a game changer. Call, who serves as president and CEO of Traverse Connect, has had a front row seat –...
When it comes to healthcare technology, Munson Medical Center (MMC) is leveling up. In the past year, MMC has made multiple major investments in new tech infrastructure that is not only improving outcomes for patients, but also enhancing safety for doctors, drawing top-tier medical talent to...
For countless companies and organization throughout the United States, 2020 was a wake-up call for race relations. When a Black man named George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer in May of 2020, it ignited a racial reckoning that shook everything from the entertainment...
A new diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) fund launched last summer has already distributed more than $30,000 in grants to 21 organizations across the five-county region. Dave Mengebier, president and CEO of Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, sees those early impacts as just the first step...
The United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the per capita health expenditure in the U.S. was $10,586 in 2018, nearly double the next country on the list – Germany, with...
A "normal" summer. It’s a prospect that local residents, businesses, event organizers, and tourism professionals have been hoping for since COVID-19 first waylaid Traverse City’s economy in 2020. 2022 may just be the year where “normal” and “summer” coalesce once more. But after two years of safety...
Traverse City’s real estate market has been a ball of chaos for two years running. Homes selling for way above asking price, dozens of offers on a single house, all-cash sales, sight-unseen offers, bidding wars, escalation clauses, appraisal gaps, skyrocketing home values and dwindling inventory: These...
