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• The Braeburn – 2,194 square feet, three bedooms/2-1/2 bathes, priced from $675,000.

 

The Cottages at LochenHeath provide buyers with a rich architectural design featuring wood and stone; large covered patios; decorative iron light fixtures and landscaped front yards. Standard interior features include metal-clad wood windows; a wide variety of tile, carpet and wood floor variations; seven-foot solid-core interior doors with custom hardware, finishes and design; custom ceiling detail in master suites and great rooms; fully-integrated security system; structured wiring technology for state-of-the-art communications systems, including telephone, cable TV and data wiring for high-speed Internet access; pre-wiring for stereo system and in-home theatres; professionally designed lighting package, and pre-wiring for ceiling fans in great room and all bedrooms.

 

Large gourmet kitchens feature furniture-quality cabinets; built-in island cabinet; stone countertops; walk-in pantries; recessed lighting; stainless steel two-compartment sinks with designed faucets; built-in refrigerator with stainless panels; convection oven and separate microwave oven; gas burner cooktop; and heavy-duty dishwasher and garbage disposal.

 

Because northern Michigan properties have diverse climates, the new cottages were also designed with a number of energy-saving features, including dual-pane, low “E” glass windows and doors; efficiency-designed air conditioning and heating system; programmable thermostats; gas hot water heater, and natural gas included at water heater, furnaces, fireplaces, dryer and cooktop.

 

One of the premier northern Michigan golf courses is the Club at LochenHeath, which is being developed by LochenHeath Land Company, LLC, a joint venture between Deepwater LLC, a Michigan-based company, and Pinnacle Development Group, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company that has developed two of the Southwest’s most renowned private residential and golf communities – Scottsdale, Arizona’s Estancia which was named Golf Digest’s Best New Private Golf Course in America in 1996, and The Club at Seven Canyons in Sedona, Arizona, recognized as the seventh Best New Private Club in America by Golf Digest in 2003.

 

The “buying decision” at LochenHeath, a premier northern Michigan property, is primarily being dictated by lifestyle considerations and a family-oriented environment that encourages frequent visits from buyers residing in Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis and other Midwestern cities. “Our new golf cottages will provide a new product that will give buyers another way to enjoy the community’s comfortable, elegant and private environment.”

 

As LochenHeath enters its second year, several custom homes are currently under construction, subject to strict design guidelines and architectural controls that will maintain the development’s commitment to high quality and long-term sustainable value. Michigan lakefront home views in LochenHeath are protected through meticulous site planning and positioning of all building pads. Lot prices in this prestigious Traverse City golf community range from $200,000 to $2.2 million.

 

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SPORTS BETTING - Tennis is an underrated and under-utilized bettors' sport.

Ten years ago, at just about this time, I called Alan Boston in Vegas and left him a voicemail that went something like this (abridged version): "Hey Alan, Chad Millman from ESPN The Magazine calling. I want to do a book about wise guys, you in?"

A couple weeks later I got a message back (abridged version): "I don't know, maybe," Boston said. "Call me and we'll talk about it. But not later today. I got $1,000 on Andre Agassi to win the French Open at 40-1, and he's in the finals."

Here's what happened next (abridged version): Agassi won his tourney. Boston won his $40,000. I wrote sportsbook.

In the ten years since, how much has been wagered on the big-time tennis events? Put it this way: The Nevada Gaming Commission doesn't even track the number year by year because it's so small.

"Tennis makes up about one-tenth of one percent of our take," says Lucky's bookmaking boss Jimmy Vaccaro. "The last big golf major we probably had $100,000 worth of bets. In tennis, we might have written two big tickets."

Tennis' lack of popularity amongst the American bettoratti is no surprise, really. For starters, the biggest sports betting holidays -- the Super Bowl, the NCAA tourney -- are must see TV. People, at least the degenerates I know, plan vacations around watching those events in Vegas sports books.

But Wimbledon? Doesn't exactly reel in the whales. "Seriously, it's the nuts as an event," says Boston. "But who even knows when it's on?"

Here's another reason that helps explain why golf gets traction, something I call "The Bubbe Theory." My Bubbe is pushing 95 and has cataracts so bad that, to her, even the most crystalline Chicago day is mostly cloudy. But she still listens to the Cubs games, and she still calls me in a fit if she disagrees with something Rick Telander writes in the Chicago Sun Times. She's a sports fan. If she doesn't know you, you're just filling a niche. And niche players, even historically good ones like Roger and Raf, don't drive betting volume. Only the highest profile names attract square money, which inflates wagering totals like a shot of saline to the lips. Bubbe, and the public, loved Agassi, tennis' last cross-the-rubicon, mainstream draw. She also has a crush on Tiger. She's given me standing orders to put a sawbuck on the big cat whenever I walk through a sports book (or mistakenly tap into one via my Internet machine.) That explains why the Masters is getting $100K in action at some books while the four tennis majors might not get that combined this year.

This isn't a case of tennis being a difficult sport to bet. In fact, in Europe, it's probably the second most popular sport for gambling after soccer. Granted, as the WSJ football betting last week and The Mag's Shaun Assael examined in even greater depth last year, that might be because gamblers across the pond see it as an easy game to fix. But it could also be because, over there it holds the kind of sway the big two do over here.

Street corners in Spain are peppered with public courts and kids doing their best Raffy impressions. In some war torn parts of Eastern Europe poverty-stricken kids view tennis as an escape route, like football or basketball here. A couple years ago The Mag's Lindsay Berra wrote a great piece about Belgrade's Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic and Novak Djokovic. They learned the game as kids while bombs were raining down on their homeland. They practiced in drained swimming pools. Not exactly Nick Bolletierri conditions.

In the United States, casual fans think tennis is played four times a year. But on the tightly packed European continent, national interest in homegrown talent runs deep every weekend. Of the ATP's current top 20 players, only two, tennis betting and James Blake, are American. Fourteen are from Europe, representing six different countries.

No wonder fans from Lisbon to Bhudapest get jacked up for the net game, whether it's Wimbledon or a low-level tourney like the Estoril Open in Portugal (congrats to Spain's Albert Montanes for winning that one, btw). Chances are good that someone representing their flag will not only be playing, but have a shot at winning.

And that's all any bettor can ask for.

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