HOUGHTON – The Sharon Avenue Property Use Committee offered tours of a former church Friday for people walk through and see it for themselves. The Houghton County Board of Commissioners purchased the First Apostolic Lutheran Church property on Sharon Avenue last year. The purchase price was $1.2 million. Funding came from the $6.8 million that the county received from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)according to County Commissioner Roy Britz.

The county hoped to eventually build a new jail, sheriff’s office and other county offices on the site. Last year, the city of Houghton annexed a property from Portage Township in preparation for a potential jail project.

However, in August. the Houghton County Jail and County Building Improvement Bond Proposal failed – but only by 972 votes, 3,6

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