MARQUETTE, Mich. (WZMQ) – Michigan’s Office of Rural Prosperity is putting its dollars toward community projects, aimed at investing in underserved areas.
The Rural Readiness Grant Program awarded around $852,000 to organizations throughout the state, including the Great Lakes Recovery Center.
The center has been awarded $50,000 to fund its new location in Sault Ste. Marie. The current building is too outdated to serve the needs of those recovering and will be repurposed. GLRC officials said they hope to repurpose the building now into a temporary housing residence but are still in the beginning stages of the new building.
“The rural readiness grant helps us with some of the preliminary work aquiring land doing an environmental survey giving preliminary architectural drawings so things like that it is instrumental in us getting us off the ground,” commented Sault Ste. Marie Project Coordinator Karen Sprague.
The GLRC did note that it is still in the beginning stage, and still has yet to decide on where they will build the new location.
