Dan Meikle named Musgrove Evans Award recipient for 2023

The Daily Telegram
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TECUMSEH — An entrepreneur who over the past several years has rehabilitated some of downtown Tecumseh's oldest buildings is the 2023 recipient of the Musgrove Evans Award.

Dan Meikle will be honored at a dinner Nov. 8 at The Ashlar, 700 Bishop Reed Drive in Tecumseh. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at www.greaterlenaweechamber.org/musgroveevans. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the program begins at 6 p.m.

The Musgrove Evans Award is named for the founding father of Tecumseh. It is awarded by the Greater Lenawee Chamber of Commerce to an individual or couple who have made Tecumseh a better place in which to live.

Entrepreneur Dan Meikle stands in front of the Union Block building in downtown Tecumseh. The building is one of the downtown buildings that Meikle has renovated in the past several years. Meikle is the 2023 Musgrove Evans Award recipient.
Entrepreneur Dan Meikle stands in front of the Union Block building in downtown Tecumseh. The building is one of the downtown buildings that Meikle has renovated in the past several years. Meikle is the 2023 Musgrove Evans Award recipient.

In 2014, the Michigan State Housing Development Authority awarded a grant to Meikle's project to develop five rental units on the upper floor at 112 W. Chicago Blvd., known as the James Block building.

In 2020, Meikle started working on a similar project next door in the Union Block building to develop four more rental units in the upper floors.

Meikle now offers a collection of apartments and short-term suites in the buildings. Businesses on the first floor include The Vault ice cream and sweets shop and Harvest Chocolate.

Past recipients of the Musgrove Evans Award include last year's recipient Linda Hewlett as well as Jack Baker, Gary Naugle, Ashley Chase, Paula Holtz, Dick Johnson, Jim Lincoln Jr., Joe and Sherri Tuckey, Tom and Jeanette Meyer, Martha Melcher, Mary Tommelein, Dick and Pam Neidermier, Shelley Hickman, Chuck Gross, David Hickman, Mike and Colleen Sunderland, Jan Fox, Harvey Schmidt, John Wanke, Roma Gray and Ruth Crosby, Diane Proctor, Rochelle and Doug Bird, Jim Lincoln Sr., Cal Zorn, Vic Lawson Jr., Aden Mead, Bernice and Marda Gene Duncan, Ken Herrick, Harold Easton, Merlyn and Myrna Downing, Fred and Opal Dickinson, and Carlton and Lynn Cook.

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