A friend of mine was filling me in on the plans for Luna Pier to become a local travel to destination. It looks AMAZING!!!! It really could be a nice little nautical town to visit close to home.
Here is the link to the cities master plan. Check out page 51, the rendering looks great!!!
http://www.cityoflunapier.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=oycbFirXoaE%3d&tabid=4957&mid=13496
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interesting! any idea where they are going to fund all of this?
i've always found luna pier really unwelcoming, and hope they are able to turn it into something more visitor friendly. i wish them the best of luck... there are some BIG plans laid out in this proposal! :)
It's a nice place, always take my family up there to see the Lake.
Curious how active this is considering those plans are 3 years old.
Best of luck to them :) Wish there was a way to better capitalize on Maumee Bay.
posted by INeedCoffee on Apr 24, 2012 at 10:16:53 pm #
Best family friendly place on the lake is Lakeside, Ohio. Best kept secret for safe family fun in a small town...
posted by SensorG on Apr 24, 2012 at 10:55:47 pm # 3 people liked this
Lakeside is great! It's just... A bit weirdly religious for me
posted by upso on Apr 24, 2012 at 11:57:45 pm # 3 people liked this
The place started as a seasonal cottage cluster for Toledo and Detroit folks 100 years ago. One would think they have it in their DNA. Meanwhile, what impact will the scheduled shutdown of the iconic JR Whiting plant have? (Other than it is ugly and a brownfield.) Is there a revenue hit from Consumers Energy taxes?
Thought I'd just take a glance at the document, but found myself going over the entire thing. Definitely ambitious. It would be great to see something like that happen/succeed.
Luna Pier's on a cliff - they're losing the power plant that provided the vast majority of their tax funds.
it's up to them whether they crash into the rocks below or fly. They could do either. As Walleye said, they could become a nautical bedroom community just outside toledo, or they could just disappear.
In an effort to avoid the latter, the power plant has gone to the U of M for some community development help. I really hope it works.
upso, not to derail the thread too bad…
Lakeside was founded as a Methodist community in 1873, but I don’t find it too religious and I’m a practicing agnostic. I’m happy to be fishing off the pier on a Sunday morning with the lake side church service and it’s music just being audible in the background.
Great video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUVuccI2gyU
I'm with upso on this on both of his points -
1. I have friends that have cottages in Luna Pier and I've always felt that it lacks a "welcoming" feeling. Not to mention the fact that they always remind me to follow the speed limit like I'm in Ottawa Hills. I'm all for keeping the speed down in a community like Luna Pier but rumors of speeding tickets for 3 mph over the speed limit is ridiculous.
2. Where is the funding coming for this? The proposal looks incredible and I think if completed it might do exactly what they want it to do. But it would very expensive.
posted by idinspired on Apr 25, 2012 at 09:48:25 am #
If you look under groups of the lakeside post you will see pictures of my granddaughter's wedding there 5 years ago. It was a beautiful setting and they treated us like royalty.
A coupla quick thoughts:
I've lived here for over 20 years. My wife's a native. We have NEVER been into Luna Pier.
When I think of Luna Pier, I think of some odd little place with a big power plant, that's probably rather rundown and polluted.
I don't know of any nice public beach areas there.
So, based on just my own perceptions of the place, I'd say their plan is:
Ambitious.
Expensive.
Will take a decade or more to yield results.
We have friends who live in Luna Pier - used to go there for 4th of July cookouts and the fireworks. It seemed that the residents had a good sense of community, most of the homes had cookouts that day and then we all migrated to a common area for the fireworks.
Though perhaps it was a different experience being a guest at a home vs. whether it would feel welcoming at a public beach?
i think i'm just overly sensitive :)
Lakeside called. They said that they find you "artsy."
posted by justread on Apr 25, 2012 at 12:45:57 pm # 1 person liked this
It's worth going to Lakeside just the Sloopy's Pizza...
http://sloopyspizza.com/index.html
Homefry Pizza
Ranch Dressing, french fries, bacon, cheddar and mozzarella.
Totally awesome, but each slice takes a couple of days off your life span…
Looney Pier is also the home of Chateau Louise, where they serve hamburgers the size of bocce balls. The quality and taste is just slightly higher than mediocre, but I enjoy seeing that big damn burger come out of the kitchen.
Looney Pier is also the home of Chateau Louise, where they serve hamburgers the size of bocce balls. The quality and taste is just slightly higher than mediocre, but I enjoy seeing that big damn burger come out of the kitchen.
If I use my hamburger to knock your hamburger away from Jack, do I get a point?
Chateau Louise has been mentioned in other posts for having a great perch sandwich. Better than mediocre!
I'm glad to see the improvement plans for Luna Pier. When I was there, they had a weird arrangement of several dozen NO PARKING signs, and a window at a building on the beach where you could buy a parking permit. No thanks!
I have seen a remarkable transformation in some of the small towns in Appalachia to a more tourist-friendly, arts- and gourmet-food-based vibe. Maybe Luna Pier is going in the same direction as far as being visitor-friendly (I think Sylvania would like to, also).
The old lakefront building with LUNA PIER on the roof has been torn down. They are building a new functional lighthouse there.
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