The City of Fennville took home the top prize of $25,000 in a state competition that will help put the small Allegan County town on the map.
Three winners of the Consumers Energy Foundation’s Put Your Town on the Map award were announced June 8 from the 10 finalist communities that made presentations at the 2023 Small Town and Rural Development Conference led by the Community Economic Development Association of Michigan.
Fennville’s winning project is the installation of wayfinding signs to help unify the region and surrounding communities. The signs will be bilingual to support
inclusivity and the community’s mission to promote diversity and growth.
The other winners were Reed City for $15,000 and Harbor Beach for $10,000.
The Put Your Town on the Map competition started in 2019 to reward ideas and provide critical dollars for projects being developed in small towns with populations under 10,000 in the state’s lower peninsula.
