A northern Michigan park known as a great spot for stargazing will soon expand. Emmet County commissioners voted last week to spend $7.6 million on a new building for the Headlands International Dark Sky Park. The building will include an observatory and an indoor meeting space.
Mary Stewart Adams is the park’s program director and the host of IPR's The Storyteller’s Guide to the Night Sky.
“The commissioners have definitely seen that this is something that the public and … people from all over the world are interested in," says Adams. "It drew their attention very quickly and I think that supported their desire to make it accessible.”
Adams expects ground to be broken for the new building in about three weeks. Construction could be completed in early 2017.