The 36-acre property featuring historic "Building 50" is being redeveloped by
The Minervini Group and is now known as "The Village at Grand Traverse Commons".
It is one of the largest historic rennovation projects in the nation and has been featured in both TRAVERSE, Northern Michigan's Magazine (April 2003) and Detroit's HOUR Magazine (December 2002). Photographer Heidi Johnson also chronicled the history of the Traverse City State Hospital in her book, "Angels in the Architecture, A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum" (2001, Great Lakes Books).
Gallery Fifty was the first retail tenant in this historic part of the development, moving in just months after the first restaurant, Trattoria Stella.
The 380,000 sq. ft. building is surrounded by several historic outbuildings and hundreds of acres of preserved park land and woodland. It is just over a mile from Lake Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay and Traverse City's downtown.
The "Southview" phase, including roughly 45,000 sq. ft. of Building 50 and the entire 25,000 sq. ft. of Cottage 20 will be completed in early 2005. The Village at Grand Traverse Commons is a mixed-use development and includes retail, restaurant, office and residential tenants.
For more information, www.thevillagetc.com.