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framed by two dead-end roads, listening
distance from Lake Michigan,
kept by the same family for a hundred years. Leveraging everything I
owned, with the guidance of my buddy Mukluk, who had helped me find the
land in the first place, I fashioned a small development centered around
a nature preserve called, playfully, Swan’s Way.
Mukluk and I worked hard to keep some of the original sense of mystery
that defined this forest, against the dire predictions of those wiser
and more experienced than ourselves that this project was doomed to
failure because the land was too low. Once a few lots were cleared and a
couple of roads wound through, the land dried out just fine, and our
little site became the most sought after location in the area.
I had originally planned to build all the houses myself, but I was
too deeply invested. I went
so far as to fly in an architect from the Boston area, the firm of
O’neill&Pennoyer, who had a design that I loved, but, for the
moment, it was not to be. Once it became fashionable, Swan’s Way sold
quickly, and I was soon fresh out of land to build on. A
couple of years after Swan’s Way closed out, Larry Frankel, chief
partner in Grand Beach development, made me an offer I couldn’t
refuse, and so the dream house destined for Swan’s Way found a home in
Grand Beach. The house was
completed in 2003, and closed January 15 2004.
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