• Having lost the economies they built on Whirlpool's founding 101 years ago, two Rust Belt communities in Michigan are looking to their Great Lakes location for a new source of life.
• Benton Harbor contributed a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course two years ago, and now a developer in St. Joseph wants to do a mixed-use project with a hotel, conference center and marina on the St. Joseph River near Lake Michigan, reinventing what used to be a Whirlpool industrial site.
• Edgewater Resources is beginning the $22.5 million first phase of what it plans to be a $70 million project called Harbor Village, and some of the funding is a loan from a credit union begun by Whirlpool employees.

From the article: "A Rust Belt community on the shores of Lake Michigan is about to get another boost in its unlikely bid to reinvent itself as a resort destination named Harbor Shores. ..."