Co-Location Proposal Spins Carnegie RFP Process in New Direction
By Beth Milligan | April 20, 2026
Traverse City commissioners are set to discuss two tenant proposals for the city-owned Carnegie Building on Sixth Street from Crooked Tree Arts Center and Traverse Area District Library tonight (Monday). However, a “tremendous amount of feedback” has prompted city and library staff to propose a new approach: co-locating the two entities in the building, according to City Manager Benjamin Marentette. Crooked Tree staff, meanwhile, have expressed significant concerns about the proposal and are asking commissioners to continue the request-for-proposals (RFP) process as designed.
The city is using an RFP process to find tenants for both the Carnegie Building and the Bijou by the Bay/Con Foster building in Clinch Park. The …
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