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March 13, 2003Building 50 committee dissolvingByRecord-Eagle staff writer TRAVERSE CITY - The 5-year-old Committee to Preserve Building 50 on the former state hospital grounds will dissolve. Organizers said the nonprofit citizens group has fulfilled its goal of protecting the centerpiece structure on the Grand Traverse Commons campus. Building 50 has a newly installed roof and redevelopment is moving forward.
The committee conducted tours and other informational programs on Building 50. It also lobbied the Commons board to conduct a national search for a firm to redevelop the building and core campus. That land has since been turned over to local developer Ray Minervini, whose company has installed a new roof on the building and is moving ahead with plans for a mixed-use residential and commercial development at the site. Committee president Janese Horton said one of the group's major accomplishments was gathering petitions with more than 5,000 signatures of area residents supporting the preservation of Building 50. "I don't think anybody believed in the beginning there was that kind of support (for Building 50)," Horton said. "We definitely made a lot of progress." Some of the committee's $5,000 in assets from fund-raisers and other events will help pay dissolution costs, she said. The rest will go to an endowment highlighting the historic architecture around the Commons property.
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