Great Lakes Tea & Spice opens in new location
From staff reports
Glen Arbor based Great Lakes Tea & Spice (GLTS) has moved four doors west from its original location, which dates back to 2006 — starting with a 10 x 10 seasonal “shed-boutique”. The retail tea, spice, olive oil and balsamic vinegar (as well as many other amazing findings from throughout the world) purveyor is a few steps closer to the Sleeping Bear Dunes and Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail entrance. When asked why the move just 50 yards further down on M-109, co-owner Chris Sack responded, “This end of Glen Arbor’s retail-district is just starting to get as energized as it was prior to the economic crash of 2008. We needed a space to operate under one roof, instead of being spread out with our retail store in Glen Arbor and our warehouse space in Empire; we were lucky to find it!”.
Although Sack was initially worried about the prospect of moving out of their original location, he underlined that several new retail operations and businesses in the immediate area will make things exciting once again for the town’s West side.
Sack tells us that his business partner/GLTS Co-Founder and bride of nearly 23 years, Heather Sack, is stepping in as the company’s new president/commander-in-chief. Heather has an accomplished entrepreneurial and business background which includes starting up a successful jewelry and design business in 2009 (Arabella Concepts, LLC – also located in Glen Arbor’s west end shops and next door to the GLTS new location), being a mother of two, formerly acting as a boarding school administrator and as a business manager at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
Heather is excited to be taking over the reins of GLTS, a company that has worked with celebrity chef Padma Lakshmi, hostess of Bravo’s Top Chef. Additionally GLTS has developed tea-kiosk/tea-house models for Cleveland Clinic and Henry Ford Hospitals. You can find Great Lakes Tea & Spice products at Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel and in Traverse City at Peppercorn TC, Bistro FouFou and The Frank- lin, as well as many other fabulous locations regionally and throughout the United States. Great Lakes Tea & Spice is located at 6640 Western Avenue, Glen Arbor, MI 49636 and online at www.TEAandSPICE.com.
