HART, MI - A Northwest Michigan community is looking ahead at future opportunities as it gets a satellite location for the local community college.

An old grocery store in the city of Hart is being turned into a satellite location for West Shore Community College, which is based in Scottville, just east of Ludington.

The Gales grocery store, at 710 S. State St., is a 26,000-square-foot building and has been vacant for a couple years, said Mitchell W. Foster, vice president for administrative services at the college.

Construction is expected to begin in January, by Wieland construction company out of Lansing. Architecture design is being done by Abonmarche.

“It works perfectly for our purposes,” Foster said of the large, now gutted, building. “It allows for us to really get creative for

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