A long-gestating workforce housing project in Suttons Bay will finally break ground this week, after a long saga of funding challenges and other hurdles. It’s a piece of good news for local affordable housing advocates.

News broke all the way back in May of 2021 that HomeStretch Nonprofit Housing Corporation, a regional developer of affordable housing, was in the process of acquiring a 2.6-acre parcel of land from the Leelanau County Lank Bank Authority to develop eight below-market-rate townhouse-style apartments. The parcel is located at 525 N. Marek Road, about a mile northwest of downtown Suttons Bay.

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