SAGINAW, MI — A $50,000 Michigan State Historic Preservation Office federal grant will support Saginaw officials’ efforts to restore the historically-designated former Saginaw County fairgrounds gatehouse, laying more groundwork to turn the former site into a park.

This 1929-built gatehouse, which served as the primary entrance to the now-abandoned fairgrounds for decades, will receive masonry repairs as part of the grant funding, officials said.

The $50,000 masonry job is part of an estimated $671,000 project to transform the decades-dormant former fairgrounds property into a 1-acre, city-owned park.

Saginaw City Hall officials remain in the late stages of negotiating the purchase of the land once known as the original Saginaw County fairgrounds , on Genesee and Webber, said Cassi Zim

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