Former Hoover Flower Shop Property Protected for Community

A well-known piece of property at the entrance to Harbor Springs will not become the site of a development, as once proposed. Instead, the 20-acre former Hoover Flower Shop property has been placed under a conservation easement enabling the Harbor Springs Public Schools to use it for a new track and playing field. A portion of the property will also extend the public park that already exists adjacent to the site.

A gathering of community, city, school and Conservancy representatives at the old Hoover Flower property.

The land was purchased by a group of anonymous summer residents who call themselves “Fine Flowers.” After permanently protecting the land with a conservation easement, Fine Flowers donated the property to the north of M-119 to the Harbor Springs school district and the property to the south of the road to the City of Harbor Springs. According to Tom Pointer, the attorney representing Fine

Flowers, the donors “recognized the importance of the property to the public, and wanted to preserve it in some manner for future public benefit.”

This effort adds one more parcel to scenic protection efforts along the “Gateway to Harbor Springs,” mentioned above. “The park on the south continues the preservation of the M-119 vista which is really the scenic resource in this area,” said Conservancy Executive Director Tom Bailey. “There will now be public recreation space on both sides. It really makes a winner out of everyone.