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EXCITING
INVESTMENTS AROUND
LAKE ST. CLAIR
There have been some BIG changes! few years ago are a big
Major investments are being made
around the lake including Minnich’s success; however, the
and Walker’s Landing on Harsen’s Is-
land have new owners, Algonac Har- need for a break wall
bour Club Marina's "new restaurant
owner" has a lot of exciting things has been realized and
planned, Schmid Marina is now Sun-
sation Harbor with a new housing de- a committee chaired by
velopment coming, Sunset Bay Mari-
na is now Plagen’s Pier and reopening Little Camille’s owner
a waterfront restaurant (finally yeah!),
Bouvier Bridge Marina has new own- Mark Miller has been
ers, New Baltimore is looking to add a
break wall and more dockage for tran- formed to hopefully
sients .... and what I thought one of the
most noteworthy, was the purchase make this happen. Presently,
of Belle Maer Harbor and Jefferson
Beach Marina by a Texas based com- dockage is limited to 16 free daily, New Baltimore
pany - Safe Harbor. however, a potential 400’ break Break Wall Proposed
wall would allow overnight dock-
Here are a few nuggets of detail of
these transitions: age for about 40 transient boats.
NEW BALTIMORE’S docks put in a
Downtown New Baltimore is de-
veloping rapidly as a fun filled
family and night life destination
and I’m very excited to report the
vision of the local merchants to
support their boating community season. Originally from down river (for
customers to make this a safe non-locals that means southern De-
harbor. See page 90. troit River) and most recently lived in
-------------------------- the Lansing area, while keeping a boat
MINNICH’S MARINA now MIDDLE here at Jefferson Beach Marina the
last four years. They plan to invest
CHANNEL MARI- more in the marina, will be installing
NA and yes on the new gas pumps, and are also thinking
Middle Channel of about a weekend “food truck” for carry
Harsen’s Island - out… and they did acquire their beer
opened in 1956 by license. See page 19.
Will & Mary Minn- ----------------------------------
ich - was purchased The former SUNSET BAY restaurant in
and TOTALLY re-
furbished and looks
really fantastic!
Wife and husband
Jackie and Fred
Grove moved to
Harsen’s Island last
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Bay and faces a beautiful sunset
each evening will open spring 2019
with new management and proba-
bly a new name (at time of printing
late December, the new restaura-
teur had not been chosen). Contin-
ued on page 24
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