In the News: Historic Bay City bank building has a contractor, architect and a restaurant

With a general contractor and award-winning architect secured, a historic bank building in the heart of downtown Bay City is nearly ready for a grandiose redevelopment.

Last month, Jenifer Acosta, the developer looking to transform the 125-year-old Crapo building at Center and Washington avenues into a multi-use structure with residential apartment rentals and commercial space, hired Saginaw-based Spence Brothers as the project's general manager. Quinn Evans Architecture, the same firm that designed renovations to Bay City Hall following a 2010 fire, was also hired for the redevelopment project...