Traverse City -
I was able to to check out a few more things in Traverse City earlier this week. There was a certain pregnant energy in the air; the quiet before the summer tourist season pops. Lots of projects underway or wrapping up. This is a fairly long update, and I saw maybe only half of the projects happening right now. Here's some homegrown music to help get you through it -
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State Savings Bank, on S Garfield Ave. -
This second image, as well as the rendering below it, is from the bank's website -
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State Savings Bank
New housing project, also on S. Garfield Ave. I didn't catch the name on the sign, but I think it is
this Woda Cooper project -
The "massive" GLC / Northern Michigan Pines project -
These new condos / apartments (/ private residence?) at 401 E Front St. are almost done -
Next door to it, Honor Bank, which has been open for a little while -
The Freshwater Flats project seems like it is taking forever. I don't know what is going on with it. Some of the units are occupied, others are unfinished and it looks like like there is nothing happening at all with them -
These units have absolutely zero yard space and this has to be about the ugliest / laziest / cheapest design for a gap between two buildings -
What do you think of this house just west of this, at
124 N Oak St? Google maps shows it's been around since at least 2019, but I just stumbled upon it. A quick search shows it is owned by the president of a land development / civil engineering firm -
Looks like they're doing pretty well for themselves -
539 Bay St (completed in late 2020, but my first time really seeing it in person), looking good at dusk -
Windward (at 613 Randolph St.) is not terribly new either (completed in 2019) but I like the way it is framed by the two older buildings on either side -
Acqua is very far along -
The newest Traverse City Area Public Schools building celebrated a ribbon cutting this past Tuesday (TCAPS Montessori) -
The last one for this tour, Cypress (completed last summer) at the corner of Cypress and N Division Streets -
