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Company ready to buy land for theme park; Needs zoning change on 1,800 acres in Grayling Twp.

Publication: Crain's Detroit Business
Publication Date: 16-JUL-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Company ready to buy land for theme park; Needs zoning change on 1,800 acres in Grayling Twp.(Main Street America Inc. )

Article Excerpt
Byline: 1Chad Halcom

A $165 million theme park proposal that's been years in the making for northern Michigan is just steps away from acquiring a tract of state land along I-75 near Grayling for development.

Rochester-based Main Street America Inc. will request some zoning changes before the Grayling Township Planning Commission on July 31 for an 1,800-acre plot of state-owned land to become a theme park of the same name.

Once that hurdle is cleared, the company would need only a second appraisal on the land itself before it can arrange a purchase with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

In all, the company hopes to acquire nearly three square miles when counting some 300-plus additional acres of private land adjoining the state property, said Patrick Crosson, Main Street America president and theme park project manager. The company is talking with those private landowners. Just one of the owners has a house or cabin in the area.

"It (the private property) is mostly land people have bought as places to go hunt Up North. Nobody lives on it,'' Crosson said.

The park in current concept sketches and...

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