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Traverse Connect | The Connection – Early July 2025

July 10, 2025

Michigan Business Network

Final Week to Apply for
Leadership Grand Traverse

This is the final week to apply for the 2025/2026 Leadership Grand Traverse cohort. Leadership Grand Traverse (LGT) is a community-based program that prepares participants for decision-making leadership roles in areas such as policy, program implementation, and development. The program offers unique access and exposure to many of the region’s major assets and leaders, including natural resources, parks and recreation, community and economic development, health and human services, transportation, and agriculture.

Participants from all sectors and backgrounds are welcome in this program, though all applicant-affiliated companies interested in participating in LGT must be investors of Traverse Connect and remain investors throughout the 2025/2026 program.

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→ Join us on August 13 for the Traverse Connect Annual Golf Outing at Crystal Mountain! Get your team ready and register today.

→ Come out and celebrate the achievements of Traverse Connect’s member businesses at an upcoming ribbon-cutting: Bay Area Pet Hospital.

Our midweek reading list.

→ Networks Northwest’s Community Development Department has recently completed the draft of the 2025 Northwest Lower Michigan Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS). The draft is available for the required 30-day public review.

→ Housing North is working to connect people who need a place to live with those who have places for rent via the Housing Exchange.

→ Michigan has hundreds of startups; however, few have ever achieved the coveted status of “unicorn.” Now, all eyes are on the next crop of Michigan companies.

→ With the region’s population swelling by as much as 75% during peak tourism months, healthcare providers encourage these smarter choices for summer medical care.

→ TC Millworks hopes to replace its old headquarters with three residential buildings and a fourth building that could house retail tenants.

→ U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan collectively awarded Old Mission Peninsula wineries nearly $50 million in damages for being restricted from hosting events.

→ Continued growth in the area is exerting more pressure on the available government services, as several department heads said during recent commission meetings.

→ Every three years, each Munson Healthcare hospital submits a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and implementation strategy to the federal government.

Traverse Connect’s upcoming in-person and virtual events.

August 6 from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.

August 13
10:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

August 21 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

September 26
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

If you have interns working with your company this summer, please invite them to the TAHRA Intern Networking event on July 30 from 5-7 p.m. as an opportunity to meet other interns and find out why working and living in the Grand Traverse region is the best!