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1 week ago | 
secondwavemedia.com | MJ Galbraith
What’s happening: The Sterling Heights Public Library has unveiled its latest community engagement effort, a proactive outreach initiative that harnesses the power of learning and takes it to the streets. Unveiled earlier this May, the Sterling Heights Mobile Library is scheduled to make its first public appearance later in June.
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1 week ago | 
secondwavemedia.com | MJ Galbraith
What’s happening: A long-vacant and blighted two-story building in downtown Rogers City is set to be vacant and blighted no more. Emily Gajewski plans to renovate and redevelop the building as a mixed-use site with four residential units along with new commercial space for the area’s only local pharmacy. What’s planned: Grajewski’s Emily Ree, LLC, will renovate and redevelop the building, which is expected to result in a $1,845,000 investment in the community. The 6,312 sq. ft.
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1 week ago | 
secondwavemedia.com | MJ Galbraith
What’s happening: After several years of planning, design, and community engagement efforts, the physical reality of the Buchanan Downtown Infrastructure and Placemaking Initiative took hold in the rural southwestern Michigan community as construction crews began work this spring. The $19.4 million infrastructure project was recently bolstered by way of a $1 million RAP grant awarded to the City of Buchanan through the state’s Revitalization and Placemaking program.
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2 weeks ago | 
secondwavemedia.com | MJ Galbraith
What’s happening: Hunters of a different nature have until late summer to track down the state’s largest trees as Michigan’s only statewide tree nonprofit solicits participation in its 16th biennial Michigan Big Tree Hunt. With the competition entering its final stretch, the Ann Arbor-based ReLeaf Michigan still needs public entries from 15 counties to achieve representation from each of the state’s 83 total counties.
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2 weeks ago | 
secondwavemedia.com | MJ Galbraith
What’s happening: A vacant lot is poised to become a community asset in downtown Sawyer as project stakeholders rally to build a new park complete with public art, children’s programming, and more. Kohn Park, as it’s to be called, is envisioned as a sort of town square for a community that has long lacked one. Backstory: The Kohn family has donated the land to the project, which will transform the downtown parking lot into Kohn Park.
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3 weeks ago | 
secondwavemedia.com | MJ Galbraith
As work crews put the finishing touches on Sterling Heights' brand new Community Garden at Nelson Park, the city's Parks & Recreation Department prepares for a big grand opening celebration fit for a community garden big in both size and scope. With 123 garden beds available to residents of Sterling Heights and neighboring Warren, the addition to Nelson Park also includes a new public plaza and butterfly conservatory.
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3 weeks ago | 
secondwavemedia.com | MJ Galbraith
What’s happening: A pair of mixed-use developments will soon rise in the Oakland County cities of Ferndale and Southfield, recently bolstered by financing support approved by the Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) and Governor Whitmer. The projects vary greatly in size and scope, but represent a total of 649 new residential units and more than 44,000 sq. ft. of commercial space between the two communities.
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4 weeks ago | 
secondwavemedia.com | MJ Galbraith
The multiplex in Sterling Heights is no stranger to excitement; it sustains it. With 30 screens, as well as being site to one of the few IMAX locations in the state, the AMC Forum 30 is well-versed in how to show its guests a good time. They’ve been doing it since their grand opening at the tail end of the 20th century, drawing guests from not only Sterling Heights and its neighbors but from all over the metro Detroit region – and often beyond.
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1 month ago | 
secondwavemedia.com | MJ Galbraith
What’s happening: A blueberry farm-glamping destination in west Michigan was recently acquired by the Montana-based Under Canvas. The upscale outdoor hospitality company has launched their new Outdoor Collection around The Fields of Michigan, as well as the Bar N Ranch lodge in West Yellowstone, Montana. What it is: The Fields of Michigan first opened in 2019, offering glamping sites, or luxury camping, by way of tents and cottages on a working blueberry farm outside of South Haven.
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1 month ago | 
secondwavemedia.com | MJ Galbraith
What’s happening: A symbol of outdated urban renewal practices will soon meet its fate in downtown Pontiac, where the oft-maligned Phoenix Center will soon be razed to the ground. Soft demolition has already begun within the former parking garage-events center and structural demolition will begin this May, paving the way for a restoration of downtown Pontiac’s traditional downtown streetscape. What it is: “The Phoenix Center has long been a Pontiac icon.
