We have new information about the ground breaking event in downtown Albion that will happen on Thursday May 12, 2016.
Please click here to see the Groundbreaking news page: Courtyard by Marriott
The information below is older and is here for archive purposes. For an interesting overview of the demolition of the buildings shown, click here to see aerial views.
Albion’s biggest news in quite a while is the proposed boutique hotel downtown. We will be posting more information about the site and official news about the groundbreaking when we can link to it. It will be in October 2015 during Albion College homecoming weekend.
(The ground breaking for the hotel did not materialize as planned for a few reasons, but there is a hotel coming to downtown Albion. We will post some news articles about that from time to time.)
At left is the approximate location of the 9 million dollar project – approximately across from the Bohm Theatre and FirstMerit Bank drive thru in downtown Albion Michigan. The status of the buildings that are still left in this block is not known.
For now, we are sharing a link from the Albion College newspaper, the Pleaid.
Here is some background information about the family that is making this happen:
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2013/08/passion_integrity_and_commitme.html
We will add more information soon with other examples of the work done by the Shaheen family that has connections to Albion College.