Hamptons of Michigan Draws New Yorkers With Bargain Homes
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The parking lot at Bob Sutherland’s Cherry Republic eatery and gift shop in Glen Arbor, Michigan, has been dotted in the past several months with license plates from New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.
Towns such as Glen Arbor along Michigan’s northwestern Lower Peninsula shoreline have long drawn tourists from Chicago and affluent automotive-industry executives from metropolitan Detroit, 280 miles (450 kilometers) to the southeast. The addition of New Yorkers and others from farther afield is a noticeable change, said Sutherland, who has run cherry-themed stores in the area for the past two decades.