Grants to create housing opportunities and help communities across the state have been awarded by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. An abandoned nursing home in Ironwood will be getting a facelift thanks to the more than $70 million awarded. Other locations in the U.P. will be able to now stage renovations and removal of blighted properties. Gogebic County Treasurer Lisa Hewitt says the county’s Land Bank has been receiving funding since last year. In the four rounds of funding awarded thusfar, the county has received $4.1 million. The Ontonagon County Land Bank will receive just over $981,000 to demolish two blighted apartment building in White Pine, which hopefully will then be used to build new housing.