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Cannabis Company Opens in Saugatuck Township
/in Western Michigan /by Tracy WillisThe New Standard cannabis company has moved into a newly built retail store in Saugatuck Township. The new site is the company’s 6th dispensary in West Michigan and seventh store across the state. Located at 6406 Blue Star Highway, it carries more than 275 products for retail and curbside service. The company opened its first location in Hazel Park in April 2020. New Standard recently acquired Agri-Med LLC which was operating three dispensaries in Muskegon, Edmore and Nunica.
Second “First” Home Buyers Accelerate Home Prices In Southwest Michigan
/in Outstate, Western Michigan /by Tracy WillisA beachfront house in New Buffalo will set a new record for Southwest Michigan. It will be the fourth home in New Buffalo to sell for $4 million or more in the past year. The real estate boom in Southwest Michigan is not only at the upper end of the market. Along the 16-mile strip of shoreline towns from New Buffalo to Bridgman, home sales were up 48 percent in the first quarter of the year from the same time in 2020. Buyers aren’t necessarily buying vacation homes. They may keep their first residence in another city, but think of New Buffalo as “home” for now as they wait to see how things play out with the pandemic. New Buffalo is seeing an influx of buyers from Indiana and the Chicagoland areas.
Short-term Home Rentals Create Debate
/in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Northern Michigan, SE Michigan, Western Michigan /by Tracy WillisTwo Michigan bills that address short-term home rentals have created intense debate about who will determine how to regulate dwellings like Airbnb or vacation rentals. The Ann Arbor-based Michigan Municipal League and Lansing-based Michigan Association of Realtors are on opposite sides with each asking its constituents to email, call and write to their local legislators about the bills. Under the bills, a short-term rental would be a residential use of property. It would be a permitted use in all residential zones. It would not require a special use or conditional use permit, and it would not be a commercial use of property. Opponents of the bills call them a “cookie-cutter approach” to legislation that ignores the different needs of Michigan communities.