[DetroitMan]

The Gun Lake Tribe is planning to develop 2.75 miles of frontage along the east side of U.S. 131 between Exit 61 and 133rd Ave. The vision for the land includes retail, health care, housing and manufacturing.
Gun Lake Tribe kicks off planning to develop 2.75-mile stretch of U.S. 131 frontage

The tribe for years has been acquiring property north of the casino on the east side of U.S. 131 in Allegan County to secure it for possible future development. Monica King, CEO of Gun Lake Investments, the tribe’s non-gaming investment arm, said the tribe has secured about a 2.75-mile stretch of highway frontage spanning approximately 1,200 acres.

Now Gun Lake Investments is launching a six-month planning phase to prioritize various uses and where they will be located.“The planning phase will really be about figuring out what are our constraints and opportunities, and what we can target first,” King told MiBiz. “This is really a 25-year-plus project and will be such a huge project. We really do need to make sure we get everyone involved. … Twelve-hundred acres is so significant and it will be its own ecosystem. We do have a couple of projects (in the development) that we want to fast track and that we hope to break ground on next year.”

Parts of the development could complement the tribe’s growing casino operations, including a new 15-story hotel, but the new project will not involve gaming, King said. Conceptually, the tribe hopes to use the development to help draw more families to the area, she added.

“We really want to make that corridor a destination,” said King, noting it was too early in the process to provide cost estimates for the project.

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