Bill O'Brien

Editor's note: This article was published in the Record-Eagle's "Momentum 2026” special publication.

TRAVERSE CITY — Several modifications are being made to the city's “Moving Downtown Forward” tax increment financing plan as officials ready the proposal for city voters in November.

TRAVERSE CITY — Mother Nature literally cooled the jets at Cherry Capital Airport.

TRAVERSE CITY — Nearly $6 million in planned renovations to the Boardman/Ottaway River downtown are in limbo as they won’t be completed under the Downtown Development Authority’s current TIF-97 tax

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TRAVERSE CITY — Plans for a city-owned workforce housing project at a former print shop along Eighth Street took a major step forward this week with the help of Grand Traverse County's Brownfield Redevelopment Authority.

TRAVERSE CITY — Two days after Traverse City Area Public Schools broke ground on a new fieldhouse, the project received a nearly $40,000 boost from the Grand Traverse County's Brownfield Redevelopment Authority.

TRAVERSE CITY — City commissioners want to return to the table at the Northwest Michigan Regional Airport Authority — but it's a process Cherry Capital Airport officials said will be lengthy, complex and costly.

TRAVERSE CITY — A builder who saved parts of the former Traverse City State Hospital from the wrecking ball almost 25 years ago and transformed it

“It will be disruptive. There’s no way around it.” Garfield Township Supervisor Joe McManus