County Commissioners Get ‘Brownfield 101 Training’ Ahead Of Peninsula Housing TIF Request
By Craig Manning | Aug. 19, 2026
Members of the Leelanau County Board of Commissioners were treated to a “brownfield 101 training” session at their meeting Tuesday evening, in anticipation of a new tax increment financing (TIF) proposal that would help fund a long-gestating workforce housing project in Suttons Bay. That brownfield plan has already been recommended by the Leelanau County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority (LCBRA), but would need county board approval to go any further.
The brownfield proposal comes from Peninsula Housing, the nonprofit started by Leelanau wine industry veteran Larry Mawby in 2021. So far, Peninsula Housing has mostly housed people on a onesie-twosie basis. In 2023, though, the nonprofit acquired land off Herman Road …
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