“With that, it’ll spur other economic growth in the area, because you have brand new infrastructure and it’ll be able to handle much more traffic quicker and safer.” “It’s a big deal,”John Shagonaby, government affairs officer for the Gun Lake Tribe, told Tribal Business News. The new ramp will have what’s called a single point urban interchange designed to move high volumes of traffic through limited space safely. The two-year project the tribe initially proposed to state officials in 2017 will reconfigure the existing 62-year-old, two-lane bridge at the rough entrance to the tribal reservation along the U.S.-131/M-179 interchange in Allegan County, about 25 miles south of Grand Rapids. The Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians (Gun Lake Tribe) has spearheaded a partnership with the Michigan Department of Transportation for a $26 million highway upgrade project near the tribe’s casino.
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