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Erica Hobbs

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The new Commongrounds building on Eighth Street in Traverse City.
Commongrounds uses co-op model to serve missing needs of the community

Traverse City's Commongrounds is a mixed-use building, offering affordable housing, co-working space, a coffee shop, child education center, and performance venue. It's the first real estate cooperative in northern Michigan.

Downtown Ironwood
Visitor perspectives help move MI communities forward

Michigan State University Extension’s First Impressions Tourism Assessment (FIT) program works with small Michigan communities to offer objective “first impressions” of their towns. Ironwood has been among them. The goal is to make these towns or cities more welcoming to visitors, tourists and potential new residents.  

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