Community Development Project Profiles
See how the MEDC and communities have come together to increase private investment, create jobs and make lasting impacts in neighborhoods across the state through these project profiles.
City of South Haven, in partnership with local building owners, has completed façade improvement projects on two key properties in downtown South Haven.
Vollwerth and Co., a 100-year-old family-owned sausage making and distributing company, located in downtown Hancock, utilized Community Development Block Grant funds to assist in their expansion.
Port Huron Citadel LLC was awarded a $200,000 performance-based grant to renovate a vacant, three-story building.
Façade restorations at 220 and 212 Iron Street in downtown Negaunee returned two historic buildings to their original character, removing the inauthentic renovations that occurred in contemporary times.
Redevelopment of 215 South Front Street restored the historic, vacant building downtown Marquette, transforming it into a vibrant, multi-story, mixed-use retail and residential space.
This project redeveloped 123 and 127 East Main Street, two vacant, historic buildings located in the heart of Niles’ downtown Main Street district.
This brownfield project redeveloped approximately four acres of property located along the 400 blocks of Benson Avenue NE and Grand Avenue, north of the redeveloping Michigan Corridor in Grand Rapids.
The project converted a blighted two-story structure into four commercial spaces on the main level and seven loft apartments on the second floor.
Peregrine PNC LLC redeveloped the vacant, former PNC Bank building into a vibrant, mixed-use development, adding both commercial and residential space to the heart of downtown Kalamazoo.
This project included the transformation of a former surface parking lot into a new, 12-story mixed-use and mixed-income project in the center of downtown Grand Rapids.
This project included the rehabilitation of an existing three-story functionally obsolete manufacturing building and the construction of a new three-story building on the adjacent site to the west.
This project involved the acquisition and rehabilitation of three vacant, historic properties located in the heart of downtown Three Rivers.
