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MARQUETTE — Grandview Marquette, an affordable housing project at the renovated Holy Family Orphanage, is taking rental applications and is expected to be open by the end of October, after rainstorms have led to some construction delays. The historic orphanage…

MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - Governor Snyder took a personal tour through the soon-to-be Grandview Apartments Wednesday morning. It only took a 15 minutes through the former Holy Family Orphanage built in 1915 in Marquette for Governor Snyder to be impressed with the transformation…

As the old Holy Family Orphanage in Marquette is turned into an apartment complex, the construction workers have discovered an audience watching their every move. Residents at the D.J. Jacobetti Home for Veterans have been fascinated by the construction happening…

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JACKSON, MI - A handful of Jacksonians - current and former - have adopted a common phrase to describe their thoughts on the future of the city. "Last one out, turn off the lights," the saying goes. But that's not…

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LANSING, MI -- The Michigan Senate plans to take up legislation allowing large brownfield projects to capture taxes this week, a spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, R-West Olive, confirmed. Senate Bills 1061-1065 would create a "transformational" brownfield credit…

A $50 million annual cap is being added to legislation slated to be taken up next week in the Senate that would allow "transformational projects" to capture the state sales and income taxes collected from their creation.  The Sen. Ken…