Fresh Opportunity Mortgages
After being paused for much of 2025, Opportunity Resource Fund’s mortgage program is back and better than ever! They’re once again offering Fresh Opportunity Mortgages. The borrower featured below is the first to benefit from the newly relaunched Fresh Opportunity Mortgage program. This summer, one Detroit family became the first recipient of Opportunity Resource Fund’s […]
The Landing at Spring Lake
A ribbon-cutting ceremony on February 4th marked the grand opening of The Landing at Spring Lake, Michigan’s first Passive House-certified multifamily housing development. As a proud partner in this milestone project, coalition member IFF joined Samaritas, the project’s developer, along with Chesapeake Community Advisors, Pinnacle Construction Group, Mercantile Community Partners, the Little River Band of […]
LiveWell on Harrison
A long-vacant property in downtown Flint is undergoing a $41-million transformation into LiveWell on Harrison, a mixed-use development led by Uptown Reinvestment Corporation and HWD Harrison, Inc. Supported by $16 million in New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocation from Michigan Community Capital (MCC), the 115,000-square-foot project will bring 50 apartments—19 designated as affordable housing—alongside 7,500 […]
Wrigley Center
Michigan Community Capital provided New Market Tax Credits to The Wrigley Center in Port Huron to support its renovation and expansion in 2020. Led by Larry J. Jones and developed by Wrigley Center, LLC, the project transformed a vacant, obsolete single-story building in downtown Port Huron into a vibrant mixed-use facility. The redevelopment introduced 36 […]
The Broadway Lofts
The Broadway Lofts project marks the largest new development in 40 years in downtown Mt. Pleasant. The mixed-use development on a former brownfield site was announced in 2019 and started construction in May of 2020. Although impacts of COVID-19 created delays and hurdles for the build, residents were able to begin moving into the building […]
The Woodward Lofts
The Woodard Lofts project in Owosso, Michigan, transformed a historic manufacturing building into a vibrant mixed-use development. Originally home to the Woodard Wrought Iron Furniture Company, the facility had become obsolete and environmentally challenged, leading to prolonged vacancy. Through a comprehensive renovation, the building now offers student housing units, office spaces, and retail areas, breathing […]
Temple Lofts
Built in 1917 as a church, this five-story brick building is an iconic property in Old Town Lansing. After nearly a decade of sitting vacant and blighted, Michigan Community Capital purchased the building in 2019. In 2020, construction started on the Temple building which, through adaptive re-use, was reimagined from a two-story building into a […]
Lofts On Rowe
After sitting vacant for nearly 30 years, the 1892-brick building fronting a full city block on the edge of a residential neighborhood just north of Ludington’s downtown was rehabilitated into 67 residential units. Prior to the renovation, the building housed a series of manufacturing businesses including Carrom wooden games and Haskell Canoe Company, and served […]
The Brooke
The Brooke on Bagley is a $23 million mixed-use project located in Southwest Detroit in the Hubbard/Vernor neighborhood, near the newly redeveloped historic Michigan Central Station. The project was supported through Invest Detroit’s Strategic Neighborhood Fund, a public- private-philanthropic partnership that concentrates and coordinates high volumes of investment into 10 disinvested target neighborhoods, guided by […]
Raymond E. Shepherd House
Raymond E. Shepherd House is a new construction, 53-unit, affordable housing community recently constructed in Ferndale. Named after a well-known and loved community advocate and Ferndale resident, the Raymond E. Shepherd House is a permanent supportive housing project targeting elders in the LGBTQ+ community who are unhoused or at risk of becoming unhoused. This development […]