Civil Municipal Magazine - Nov 2023

129 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 11 SAGINAW, MICHIGAN and home to the city’s famed Farmers’ Market which operates from Memorial Day to late October. “Saginaw has so many amenities that are available in the much larger cities,” he states. Another attraction, according to Zimmerman, is Saginaw’s varied residential offerings. “We have newly developed condos right off the Saginaw River that were initially occupied in 2017, so they are still pretty new,” she notes. “One of the incentives for that project was a ‘Renaissance Zone’ that allowed us to have a little more expensive housing developed in the city.” (The Renaissance Zone program includes a waiver of many city and county taxes for property owners within the district.) “We also have an affordable housing market,” she adds. “We have a large amount of single- family homes in the city, mixed in with apartment buildings. The middle type of housing, like townhomes, is what we’re still working on. We’ve had a lot of developer Y E O A N D Y E O . C O M Our goal? To help you reach all of yours. C P A S & A D V I S O R S T E C H N O L O G Y M E D I C A L B I L L I N G W E A L T H M A N A G E M E N T