Larry Mawby Wants To Help Solve Leelanau County’s Affordable Housing Puzzle. Here’s How.
By Craig Manning | Jan. 24, 2022
Meet Leelanau County’s newest player in the fight for affordable housing: Larry Mawby. Of course, if you reside in or near Leelanau, you already know of Mawby, or his namesake vineyard, famous for decades far beyond northern Michigan for its sparkling wine. But Mawby retired from winemaking two years ago and has since been turning his attention to other passions. In 2020, for instance, he worked closely with the Leelanau Conservancy to preserve part of his family’s homestead.
Now, Mawby is setting his sights on a new adventure. He recently formed Peninsula Housing, a nonprofit that will undertake a Community Land Trust (CLT) effort throughout his home county. The ...
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