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Rick Haglund

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Former Booth Newspapers business/economics reporter/columnist. Now freelance writer when not playing Papa.

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Power to the Workers: Employee-owned companies gain momentum in region's business community

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By Rick Haglund Verified, Art Bukowski, Craig Manning Verified
| Traverse City Business News Verified
June 2026 Although they’re years away from retirement, Tyler and Jen Cerny wanted to ensure their company would remain locally owned long after they left. They decided an employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP, was the way to go. “I’m a big advocate of it,” said Tyler Cerny, 53, president of Strata Design in Traverse City. “I have acquaintances who sold their businesses to larger companies.
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'Truly Iconic': Former Stafford's properties get new life within Cotton Collection

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By Art Bukowski, Craig Manning Verified, Rick Haglund Verified
| Traverse City Business News Verified
June 2026 It’s been more than two years since a collection of iconic northern Michigan hotels and restaurants were purchased by a downstate couple. In early 2024, Stafford Smith sold his collection of beloved "Stafford's" operations – the Perry Hotel, Noggin Room Pub and Bay View Inn in Petoskey, Crooked River Lodge in Alanson, The Pier in Harbor Springs and the Weathervane in Charlevoix – to Jon and Lauren Cotton of Grosse Pointe.
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'You've Just Got to Keep Rolling': Inside the mind of Jeff Schmitz, Traverse City's most unflinching developer

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By Art Bukowski, Craig Manning Verified, Rick Haglund Verified
| Traverse City Business News Verified
June 2026 Jeff Schmitz isn’t going to rest on his laurels. There's a better chance he burns the laurels and scatters the ashes into the wind, maybe at the Arctic Circle (more on that later). Even if a development project is a hit by all accounts – even if it looks good, turns a profit and earns rave reviews – he’s more interested in what went wrong than what went right.
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