Great Lake Story: Final Chapter

The Spring issue of <a href="http://www.mibluemag.com/">Michigan Blue Magazine</a> just came out and is jam-packed with good stuff! Read the final chapter of the 2011-2012 Great Lake Story with a pictorial tour of the model home in Harbor Shores. Check out our newest Lakestyle Cottage, the Chatham. 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px; height: 320px;" /></a><div><div><br /></div><div><i>We have posted the </i><a href="http://www.echobox.com/visbeen/publication_assets/2012/michigan_blue/Blue_Spring_gls_final.pdf?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=Blog&utm_campaign=Link%2Bto%2Bfull%2Barticle%2Bfor%2BSpring%2BBlue%2BMag"><i>full article</i></a><i> on our website for ease of reading.</i></div></div></div><div><i><br /></i></div>

Great Lake Story: Final Chapter

The Spring issue of Michigan Blue Magazine just came out and is jam-packed with good stuff! Read the final chapter of the 2011-2012 Great L...

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Harbor Shores made The New York Times!

<div><a href="http://www.harborshoreslife.com/">Harbor Shores</a>, the "emerald oasis" of Benton Harbor, MI, was featured in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">The New York Times</a> last week in the article featured below outlining the history of Benton Harbor, its past and present economic challenges and the hopeful resurgence that developments like Harbor Shores will bring. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.visbeen.biz/">Visbeen Associates</a> is proud to be a part of Harbor Shores and the revival of Benton Harbor and the home we designed can be seen in the multimedia slideshow of the article!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/magazine/benton-harbor.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1"><i>Now That the Factories Are Closed, It's Tee Time in Benton Harbor, Mich.</i></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15px; 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Holes No. 14 and 15 were a former Superfund site once occupied by a company that used radium and mercury to manufacture components for fighter planes.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Metaphorically speaking, Harbor Shores is supposed to have a similarly salutary effect on the poor, overwhelmingly black town that surrounds it. No mere resort, it was envisioned by its developers as a “single, signature project to drive economic development and bring social change to Benton Harbor,” in the words of one promotional video.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">In late August, I played the course with a foursome of hackers that included Marcus Robinson, who helped lead the effort to build the resort. A heavy African-American man, Robinson wore khaki shorts, an orange Harbor Shores golf shirt and matching Harbor Shores straw hat. It was a sticky day, and he guzzled Gatorade as he liberated large chunks of turf that on more than one occasion outflew his ball. “It’s such a beautiful property,” he said as he bent over to fill a large divot with grass seed. “It’s a shame to duff it up.”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Robinson is president of the Consortium for Community Development. The consortium is one of several local nonprofits partly financed by the Whirlpool Corporation, which is based in Benton Harbor, to help encourage the redevelopment of the town. He took up golf at the urging of his girlfriend two years ago, just after construction began on Harbor Shores. “She was like, ‘You don’t want to be out here on opening day and have the ball go two inches in front of you at the first tee,’ ” he told me. “Of course, that’s exactly what happened. On my first drive, the ball didn’t even go out of the tee box.”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Robinson, who is 53, went to graduate school for hypnotherapy, the art of inducing trances to change behavioral patterns, before becoming a corporate consultant in Rochester, N.Y. He was brought to Benton Harbor by Whirlpool as a “diversity consultant” in early 2001. His assignment was to work with community leaders, businesspeople and other local residents to come up with ways to address some of the ever-worsening problems — poverty, violence, white flight, racial strife — that had been plaguing the city for years and were making it increasingly difficult for Whirlpool to attract executive talent to the area. The discussions helped birth Harbor Shores, a notion that had been kicking around a long while.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Given Benton Harbor’s unfavorable history and demographics, no private developer would likely be willing to take on such an ambitious project there. But there was another way: Robinson’s group, along with other nonprofits supported by Whirlpool, could secure enough federal and state grant money to help remediate the land, build the golf course and at least get Harbor Shores off the ground. The project’s complicated financing deal closed in May 2008, right around the time that the national real-estate market crashed.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">On the Thursday morning that we played Harbor Shores, the course looked virtually empty. The blueprints call for the 530-acre resort to include high-end hotels and shops and quaint marinas, but as of now it’s basically just a golf course. 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Harbor Shores made The New York Times!

Harbor Shores , the "emerald oasis" of Benton Harbor, MI, was featured in The New York Times last week in the article featured be...

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Great Lake Story: Chapter Two

Chapter Two of this year's Great Lake Story is out in <a href="http://www.mibluemag.com/">Michigan Blue Magazine</a>'s fall issue! Joan and Scott Willet's journey to The Fairways at Harbor Shores continues as we hear a little more about the location and their possible new home, designed by <a href="http://www.visbeen.biz/">Visbeen Associates</a>, built by <a href="http://www.falconcustomhomes.com/">Falcon Custom Homes</a> with interiors by <a href="http://www.galleryinteriors.com/">Gallery Interiors</a>.<div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTVuGYuVQnq8aEAz4c1jdwAAc3qICRybaqNOBU6prX1nF_yMbZDs8CsxA3TSGsvrLuzhDjdSneIOJhPlL0eplTT8Mpug49-IMDAIz-cbGLuS9aAp57zUCdippFH0ApRK2MUm8KnaRTqGiE/s1600/cover.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643747510407378546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTVuGYuVQnq8aEAz4c1jdwAAc3qICRybaqNOBU6prX1nF_yMbZDs8CsxA3TSGsvrLuzhDjdSneIOJhPlL0eplTT8Mpug49-IMDAIz-cbGLuS9aAp57zUCdippFH0ApRK2MUm8KnaRTqGiE/s320/cover.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD3NfBjJQlASkkaGIhb-sk7NUFjjUpQbwVOkaVdjlKD3rHe0VBLAuyhrPcG9AzUgKudBeovpA0i2gHZDB7J1C0Gqugj3K2rDD-45mkS41zx4nt_Xxn0wL9uLV-Ci00DCrL0Ct7ahtqQ33m/s1600/article.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643747501713740098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD3NfBjJQlASkkaGIhb-sk7NUFjjUpQbwVOkaVdjlKD3rHe0VBLAuyhrPcG9AzUgKudBeovpA0i2gHZDB7J1C0Gqugj3K2rDD-45mkS41zx4nt_Xxn0wL9uLV-Ci00DCrL0Ct7ahtqQ33m/s320/article.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" /></a><div><br /><br /></div><div>If you missed Chapter One, <a href="http://visbeen-associates-architects.blogspot.com/2011/05/great-lake-story-chapter-one.html?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=Blog&utm_campaign=GLS%2B2011%2BCh%2BOne%2Blink%2Bin%2BCh%2BTwo%2Bpost">click here</a> to catch up on how Joan and Scott's journey began.</div><div><br /><br /></div><div><i>For ease of reading, </i><a href="http://www.echobox.com/visbeen/publication_assets/2011/michigan_blue/blue_gls_ch_2_fall_2011.pdf"><i>click here</i></a><i> to view the full article.</i></div></div><div><i><br /><br /></i></div>

Great Lake Story: Chapter Two

Chapter Two of this year's Great Lake Story is out in Michigan Blue Magazine 's fall issue! Joan and Scott Willet's journey to T...

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Harbor Shores Model Grand Opening

The model home we designed in the Fairways at <a href="http://harborshoreslife.com/">Harbor Shores</a> is having it's <a href="http://harborshoreslife.com/events/harbor-shores">Grand Opening</a> this weekend! The home will be open for public tours from 11:00a-3:00p Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 24-26. Tomorrow, the grand opening will include live music, food and drinks. You will also have the chance to enter to win two passes to the 2012 Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid! These ground passes allow event access every day of the tournament at Harbor Shores May 22-27, 2012. Here are a few photos of the home - come and check it out in person this weekend!<div><br /></div><div>Address: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>515 Golden Bear Ct.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>St. Joseph, MI 49085</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCd9Ri2rYzlBmbOJVOY9smGf54SVWPWGycHhIqEbGjl-ovWEInEfHaXBL3vbBrmXXqj7qDqhC3SVfyJ_VQh93ZVi0TzzyqVBZhvp2eQ6jakMvTu8-q2cl7F42LCkuZm9eraH3JN5fVXCn7/s1600/1-IMG_1590-2+%28LR%29.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621147425456190210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCd9Ri2rYzlBmbOJVOY9smGf54SVWPWGycHhIqEbGjl-ovWEInEfHaXBL3vbBrmXXqj7qDqhC3SVfyJ_VQh93ZVi0TzzyqVBZhvp2eQ6jakMvTu8-q2cl7F42LCkuZm9eraH3JN5fVXCn7/s320/1-IMG_1590-2+%28LR%29.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 226px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCmu5arnyQBFfz8Dcm0Co9TDDd0LCSwV33spWSJy3IwFdxhndUG1HkK2epnRf9XszdbyAKlIvAK2b2bfQ4gsnpnpdpJAwTU7AWj3UvIUby3ukHInI-64M1WvVi3aUBhg8VzH-2VswM0Ms/s1600/4-IMG_1524+%28LR%29.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621147296335563234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCmu5arnyQBFfz8Dcm0Co9TDDd0LCSwV33spWSJy3IwFdxhndUG1HkK2epnRf9XszdbyAKlIvAK2b2bfQ4gsnpnpdpJAwTU7AWj3UvIUby3ukHInI-64M1WvVi3aUBhg8VzH-2VswM0Ms/s320/4-IMG_1524+%28LR%29.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHj14dcnLXF4TW2pQbz_NVRhZ2PZBL9W3sofOd4_JaosZFhdJTckcC7-vmxFt4qLfPYuaTY_y7LKVdxFJvTxDipTuRUcRffdiFjxHBINgLGeOKpzynniIZEKBGn8UEptcVakUBwaJ8Wl9F/s1600/5-IMG_1548+%28LR%29.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621147291264369250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHj14dcnLXF4TW2pQbz_NVRhZ2PZBL9W3sofOd4_JaosZFhdJTckcC7-vmxFt4qLfPYuaTY_y7LKVdxFJvTxDipTuRUcRffdiFjxHBINgLGeOKpzynniIZEKBGn8UEptcVakUBwaJ8Wl9F/s320/5-IMG_1548+%28LR%29.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 207px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVQrjjHxPxO8GKaVDY-6sbLObaDp6pXnRsEoVl1MvaGh0t-CTSo0vtJB-VxDAd69GSEOPq8KfGcoPvo38Jkn2VoRO65uXeskeCqv-uON0clSAlEqPPZGBgkiCPW1o6dDIRzsYcQI6qj7Z3/s1600/6-IMG_1571+%28LR%29.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621147285359915762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVQrjjHxPxO8GKaVDY-6sbLObaDp6pXnRsEoVl1MvaGh0t-CTSo0vtJB-VxDAd69GSEOPq8KfGcoPvo38Jkn2VoRO65uXeskeCqv-uON0clSAlEqPPZGBgkiCPW1o6dDIRzsYcQI6qj7Z3/s320/6-IMG_1571+%28LR%29.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQGubWWTO9EvwOOPRSrOq8hLSyEMGyCjG5gc3LEutKPqhkXS1dDFtKPT1I-6DpO9IxG5WJMZwpeU8NnSm2a_y4EH7A55NhO0Rj4Wh5IaKTC-v73JZQ4bZKBQt9wzHpBpBlzrij2XMZe0A3/s1600/7-IMG_1618+%28LR%29.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621147277492753698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQGubWWTO9EvwOOPRSrOq8hLSyEMGyCjG5gc3LEutKPqhkXS1dDFtKPT1I-6DpO9IxG5WJMZwpeU8NnSm2a_y4EH7A55NhO0Rj4Wh5IaKTC-v73JZQ4bZKBQt9wzHpBpBlzrij2XMZe0A3/s320/7-IMG_1618+%28LR%29.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeIdOo7uxxQQstxhxDmKmpCy0-yU-8VqCVHO171M8o9uXseTfG6wN3NBg0sstcuytfLTfqEfc63Se1VuKGpXrEBAKpOKPnNgcJ6kumzYzonwV8v9QO6JnD-XgNuz_geJf2OjTv5gOr88xu/s1600/8-IMG_1648+%28LR%29.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621147273046008338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeIdOo7uxxQQstxhxDmKmpCy0-yU-8VqCVHO171M8o9uXseTfG6wN3NBg0sstcuytfLTfqEfc63Se1VuKGpXrEBAKpOKPnNgcJ6kumzYzonwV8v9QO6JnD-XgNuz_geJf2OjTv5gOr88xu/s320/8-IMG_1648+%28LR%29.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;" /></a><i><br /></i><div><i>This home was designed by <a href="http://www.visbeen.biz/?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=Blog&utm_campaign=Harbor%2BShores%2BGrand%2BOpening%2Blink%2Bto%2Bwebsite">Visbeen Associates, Inc</a>, built by <a href="http://www.homesbyfalcon.com/">Falcon Homes</a> with interiors by <a href="http://www.galleryinteriors.com/">Gallery Interiors</a>.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div>

Harbor Shores Model Grand Opening

The model home we designed in the Fairways at Harbor Shores is having it's Grand Opening this weekend! The home will be open for publi...

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Great Lake Story: Chapter One

<a href="http://www.mibluemag.com/">Michigan Blue Magazine</a>'s Great Lake Story is back! This year's story takes place in the neighborhood called The Fairways at <a href="http://harborshoreslife.com/">Harbor Shores</a> in St. Joseph, MI. Read Chapter One for an introduction to this delightful tale of home design and the good life - stay tuned as this story unfolds to see Visbeen Associates' designs for Habor Shores!<div><br /></div><div>For ease of reading, <a href="http://www.echobox.com/visbeen/publication_assets/2011/michigan_blue/michigan_blue_summer_2011_great_lakes_story_chapter_1.pdf">visit www.visbeen.biz</a> to view the full story.<br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghk9AJLIMcukkr3LtcTY1U1U0fd9Llnx2I8_8NI5v-h0_eltpaw325Qiqy4QTvXAFSYAjTPaBeP9z0pi_KomOxRgHuTFvaKQpwXX5R2j2_scOsS4bYt0_6aWX2xh1_N32yUGGJG8SjFHqq/s1600/Cover.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609975547788868770" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghk9AJLIMcukkr3LtcTY1U1U0fd9Llnx2I8_8NI5v-h0_eltpaw325Qiqy4QTvXAFSYAjTPaBeP9z0pi_KomOxRgHuTFvaKQpwXX5R2j2_scOsS4bYt0_6aWX2xh1_N32yUGGJG8SjFHqq/s320/Cover.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 320px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7plK79xnt92yzgTTVjaspPSP2sUYpn0s14XHUXnK_8xjDN_Uzf8pf-S-NWIV1mZATcWkoacFH4AVXCkw1uNyt2OLwA7b-pHO0pvgoBDk-jLSvF2i3sbxV1zZ0un_YngK4dnJ5Bdgg8_Nm/s1600/p1-2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609975535552418546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7plK79xnt92yzgTTVjaspPSP2sUYpn0s14XHUXnK_8xjDN_Uzf8pf-S-NWIV1mZATcWkoacFH4AVXCkw1uNyt2OLwA7b-pHO0pvgoBDk-jLSvF2i3sbxV1zZ0un_YngK4dnJ5Bdgg8_Nm/s320/p1-2.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 203px;" /></a>

Great Lake Story: Chapter One

Michigan Blue Magazine 's Great Lake Story is back! This year's story takes place in the neighborhood called The Fairways at Harbor ...

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