Traverse City Record-Eagle

$10.5M sought for Sugar Loaf purchase
The once-popular resort, which covers several hundred acres in Cleveland and Centerville townships, closed in 2000 amid a sea of financial troubles and back-to-back poor snow seasons. Multiple attempts to re-open the operation over the years never materialized. Now county officials hope to use federal stimulus money to breathe new life into the shuttered resort.
State parks seek stimulus funds
State parks in Traverse City, Interlochen and Northport want nearly $12.5 million for new restrooms, water treatment systems, road work and other improvements.
Municipal projects are 'shovel-ready'
It's a laundry list of municipal wants: pedestrian safety improvements, water main upgrades, energy-efficient street lighting, wireless Internet, sewer lift station upgrades and a new septage receiving facility. The village of Kalkaska would like money for any or all from Michigan's cut of the federal stimulus package.
Lots of ideas for Michigan's stimulus share
A boardwalk for Leland's historic Fishtown. Improved Internet access for remote areas. A new airstrip near Benzie County's Crystal Mountain Resort. There's no shortage of ideas for business and tourism-related projects anxious for a share of Michigan's $18 billion portion of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Opera House seeks $1M in stimulus funds
It's been about 30 years in the making. That's how long Jeffry Corbin and others have worked to restore the historic City Opera House. Just one more phase remains, and the City Opera House Heritage Association hopes to get about $1 million of federal stimulus funding to make that happen.
BATA requests stimulus funds for buses
The Bay Area Transportation Authority hopes to get a chunk of federal economic stimulus funding to replace a dozen aging buses.
Academy seeking $7.65M in federal stimulus
Grand Traverse Academy requested $7.65 million in federal stimulus money for a 51,000-square foot annex to the school's secondary wing.
Locals may be 'disappointed' in road funds
Dan Kipley would love to see someone fix the pot-holed, crumbling road that twists its way up to Mt. Holiday Ski Area. But he didn't have great hopes of that happening before the federal stimulus bill was approved, and he doesn't have much now.
Officials not afraid to ask for road money
Neither Traverse City nor Grand Traverse County shied from asking federal officials to pay for major road projects from the $789 billion federal stimulus bill.