Market file · Emmet County, Michigan

Bay Harbor home appraisals

Resort Township

Bay Harbor was built on a reclaimed cement plant in Resort Township, a township whose census median owner value was $394,500 for 2020 to 2024. Five miles of Lake Michigan frontage, a 27 hole golf club and a marina with owned boat slips give buyers more to compare than square footage.

1,200+Acres in the Bay Harbor development, Wikipedia

5 milesLake Michigan waterfront at Bay Harbor, Wikipedia

$394,500Median owner occupied value, Resort Township, Census Reporter, ACS 2020 to 2024

128Private dockominium slips in about 90 acres of harbor, Wikipedia

Kiln dust is part of the site history

For more than 80 years this shoreline was a limestone quarry and cement plant. EPA Region 5 describes it as a former mining and cement site in Resort Township, redeveloped in the mid 1990s, with several cement kiln dust piles on the property, some under the 27 hole golf course. Wikipedia puts the kiln dust at 2.5 million cubic yards. EPA's 2006 fact sheet covered a leachate release, and its records are held at the Petoskey Public Library.

When crews pulled the barrier to Little Traverse Bay in the mid 1990s, the old quarry filled into Bay Harbor Lake within 24 hours.

Walloon Lake is the township's other shoreline

Resort Township fronts both Little Traverse Bay and Walloon Lake. Walloon covers 4,270 acres across Emmet and Charlevoix counties, runs about 9 miles long and reaches just over 100 feet deep. It drains through the Bear River to Lake Michigan at Petoskey. Hemingway's childhood summer cottage, Windemere, is on the north shore and still belongs to the family. A Walloon lake lot and a Bay Harbor condo share a township, yet they are separate markets when it comes to picking comps.

Areas, lakes and neighborhoods in this file

Bay Harbor Lake
The Village at Bay Harbor
Bay Harbor Golf Club
Village Harbor
East Park
Bay Shore
Resort Township
Walloon Lake (Emmet shoreline)

Landmarks around Bay Harbor

Little Traverse BayBay on Lake Michigan
Odawa Casino ResortCasino resort

Common questions

What is a dockominium at Bay Harbor?

It is a boat slip held as an owned unit rather than rented by the season. Wikipedia counts 128 private dockominiums at Bay Harbor alongside 120 public docks, in about 90 acres of sheltered harbor. A slip owned this way can be valued and sold on its own, so an appraisal should state whether one conveys with the home.

Where can I read the EPA record on Bay Harbor's kiln dust?

EPA Region 5 kept a page for the Little Traverse Bay CKD Release Site, archived in 2008. It lists a 2006 work plan, a 2007 assessment report, a 2009 mercury flux protocol and a January 29, 2009 public meeting with Michigan's environmental agency. The written records are in the Reference Department of the Petoskey Public Library.