Bay Harbor
The Locals’ Playground
2015 was a great year to be in Bay Harbor! The weather cooperated with temperatures moving into the 70s in late June and staying that way through September. As a result, our Bay Harbor Yacht Sales office had one of its best years yet. With the first two slips on “A” dock at the Bay Harbor Lake Marina and brokerage boats docked at the Marina, Yacht Club and private homes, we are looking forward to another successful year with our outstanding product offerings. Many people may not know that Bay Harbor is a year-around, open-to-the-public community. While there are gated neighborhoods offering privacy for many Bay Harbor residents, the Village at Bay Harbor downtown business district, the Inn at Bay Harbor and the Bay Harbor Golf Club are all open to the public. You may be surprised to know that there are thirteen restaurants in the Bay Harbor community, with most easily accessible directly from a slip at the Bay Harbor Lake Marina. The Village business district has five restaurants, The Original
Pancake House, Tannery Creek, The Coffee Shop, Seventeen, and Knot Just a Bar, all with seasonal outdoor dining options and excellent menus. The Inn at Bay Harbor, an easy halfmile walk east from the Marina and ranked by Travel & Leisure magazine as one of the top 500 hotels in the world, has four outstanding restaurants: The Inn Café featuring Starbucks coffee, Sagamore's for your breakfast buffet, the new Vintage Chophouse/Wine Bar, and our favorite, the Cabana Bar down on the shore of Little Traverse Bay. Ask any local – the Cabana Bar makes you feel like you are on vacation, right in your own back yard. Another Boyne USA-operated Bay Harbor property is the Bay Harbor Golf Club, with the Links Grill open for lunch and dinner. The Bay Harbor Yacht Club is another dining option in Bay Harbor. The BHYC offers the private dining options that a club membership brings to its members and serves as the social center for Bay Harbor residents and their guests. The BHYC has three dining options from the Club House Dining Rooms to The Quarter Deck and the new Beach House located by the BHYC swimming beach. All of these restaurants are great and they keep people coming back to Bay Harbor again and again. Another item being discussed at Bay Harbor is the upcoming Great Lakes Center for The Arts. The Great Lakes Center for the Arts has been a dream of Bay Harbor developer David Johnson for years. The groundbreaking ceremony will take place in early July, 2016 with the curtain going up for the first performance in 2018. The Center will be a regional, national and international destination for the cultural arts
and intellectual dialogue. Programming will include popular, classical, jazz and country music performances, theatrical productions, music festivals, opera, films, dance, lectures and children’s series. The future architectural landmark of Bay
Many people may not know that Bay Harbor is a year-around, open-to-thepublic community.
Harbor will include a 500-seat theater with private box areas, an exclusive donor lounge, rooftop patio and more—all providing limitless possibilities for the arts to inspire, entertain and educate within the Northern Michigan community. The Great Lakes Center for the Arts will be an amazing addition to Northern Michigan and to Bay Harbor! Additional details are available at their website: http://greatlakescfa.org/ or by calling Jill O’Neil at (231) 439-2600.
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