Jonathan and Mary Kay Borisch are excited to announce that they have added Legacy Water Sports and Marina (formerly Tommy’s) at 4075 M-75 in downtown Walloon Lake to their portfolio of businesses in northern Michigan. This full-service marina will continue to offer sales, service, storage, detailing, rentals and a year-round retail pro shop in downtown Walloon Lake, in addition to boat rentals, fuel services, and seasonal slips at Bay Marina on Lake Charlevoix.
“Legacy has all of the familiar faces you have come to know and trust in the marine industry and is committed to providing you with the service you have come to expect on Walloon Lake, Lake Charlevoix and all surrounding areas,” notes Jonathan. “We are excited to add this customer service driven team to ours and look forward to what the future holds.”
Jonathan Borisch was born in Walloon Lake, attending elementary school in the Village before relocating with his family to East Grand Rapids where he graduated high school in 1972. He established himself as a formidable businessman working alongside his father, and eventually his sons – Tom, Matt and David – at Borisch Manufacturing Corp, an aerospace and defense technologies contract company he started in 1994. After selling in 2010, Borisch began a second career as a commercial real estate developer. His life-long love of Walloon Lake – where he continued to spend his childhood and adult summers – gave him the inspiration and vision to dust off this sleepy town and work with the community to polish it into the gem that it was meant to be.
The first project in 2013 was establishing a new marina and converting an historic marina building into a full service marina on the main level with a year-round eatery, Barrel Back Restaurant, upstairs. In 2014, the family acquired the historic 1891 Walloon Lake Inn followed by the new Hotel Walloon – a three-story, 32-room boutique hotel – which opened in the spring of 2015. It is the only privately owned luxury hotel in northern Michigan to earn AAA Four Diamond honors (consecutively since 2016) and was also named Travel + Leisure’s No. 1 Resort in the Midwest in 2023. The Talcott, a 3000-square-foot event center (formerly a master’s boat building school), was opened in the summer of 2016 under a moniker honoring one of the village’s early names. The most recent project was The Renwick – named for Ross Renwick, who operated a General Store here from the mid-1940s through the mid-1960s – a luxury condominium building atop an expanded and recently introduced new Walloon Village General Store, which opened earlier this summer.
