WEST OLIVE, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – There is another addition to Ottawa County’s substantial and continual investment in its parks system.
Last Friday, a ribbon-cutting ceremony formally opened the Ottawa Beach Marina on the north shore of Lake Macatawa in Park Township. The county took over the former Parkside Marina last October, but a number of delays prevented the completion of the 2.4 million-dollar facility by Memorial Day weekend as originally scheduled. Besides 15 seasonal slips and 26 transient slips, the marina also includes a new office building, plus restrooms and showers for marina patrons and the general public, a pump out station and other amenities.
County Commissioner Al Dannenberg was duly impressed after what he and his wife saw when they went to the Parkside Marina prior to the Board voting on the matter in 2017. “I got to go look at where this is because I couldn’t picture it,” the one-time Zeeland Councilman said during a Thursday appearance on “WHTC Talk of the Town.” “I even used Google Maps and couldn’t find it. We went in there, and the first words out of her mouth were, ‘This looks like a junkyard! What’s going on here?’
“It did not look neat. We came back and had to vote on it, and I (still) thought it could be a ‘win-win.’ When I went to the dedication, I was impressed. It does look good.”
The Ottawa Beach Marina will be closed for the season on October 31st. More information is here.
