No date of demo was listed on Bay Mills’ permit, and the post office structure itself - boarded up with a streetside perimeter fence installed - remained standing as of late last week. The notice for the demo was posted locally in October as was a notice of intent to perform brownfield site work through the Bay Mills’ news arm and on Facebook. It lessens their liability and increases their chance of attracting a developer if they have a clear property rather than a building that would basically need to be removed for future use.” “So, obviously, they came to the conclusion that they were better served to have that property removed. There was water penetration through the roof, going into the interior, so as time was going on, that building only continued to decline,” Haynes said. “The building had continued to deteriorate.
And because it represents such a large piece of the untapped waterfront, he added, “It creates a lot of opportunity for future development.”
It could be residential, commercial, mixed-use, so a whole host of things could fall within that,” said David Haynes, the city of Port Huron’s planning director. “It’s in the central business district, which has a large variety of types of (property) uses. 14, 2023, just south of the old Port Huron post office, where the site has been vacant since purchased by the Bay Mills Indian Community in 2010.
