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Posted By: MLive on March 27, 2025.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. Ann Arbor officials are aiming to increase city hall’s capacity to facilitate and accelerate new private development projects. The city already is building out a new economic development office and now city officials are proposing further increasing staff power in the […]

Posted By: DBUSINESS on March 24, 2025.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. The Detroit Regional Partnership (DRP), an economic development organization focused on marketing and growing the 11-county region, has released its 2024 annual report centered on attracting jobs and investment. According to the report, since 2020 the DRP has helped attract 121 projects that […]

Posted By: Toledo Blade on March 21, 2025.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. Northwest Ohio is looking at an explosion of data centers in the next two years as technology companies and site selectors zero in on the region as a potential crossroads for the energy sources required to power the facilities. Oregon […]

Posted By: Toledo Blade on March 13, 2025.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. Northwest Ohio’s energy supply might be the key to its economic development. That was the message that came through loud and clear at Thursday’s annual meeting of the Regional Growth Partnership. With more than 500 people in attendance at […]

Posted By: Toledo Blade on February 16, 2025.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. Those who think there are more car washes in the city of Toledo aren’t wrong. Toledo’s Plan Commission staff concluded its study on car washes, which confirmed that there are more car washes opening within the city limits. Toledo […]

Posted By: The Toledo Blade on February 12, 2025.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. A Waffle House, 7 Brew Coffee, Sheetz gas station and convenience store, a housing subdivision, and an apartment complex are among the economic development highlights this year in Oregon, Ohio. The Waffle House is to be built on […]

Posted By: mlive on February 12, 2025.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. The Grand Rapids Downtown Development Authority approved a request by Grand Action 2.0 to purchase a site near the David D. Hunting YMCA where the 8,500-seat Amway Stadium will be built. Grand Action 2.0, the private economic development group leading […]

Posted By: Toledo Blade on December 3, 2024.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. The Toledo Department of Economic Development has big goals for 2025, but like most departments in the city, it’s preparing to operate with a smaller budget. Brandon Sehlhorst, director of economic development for Toledo, said the department views its […]

Posted By: The Toledo Blade on October 28, 2024.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. Lucas County now has an economic development agency tasked with promoting the county in a conscious attempt to move away from a “Toledo-centric” mindset that has characterized some economic development initiatives. The inauguration of the new department was […]

Posted By: Toledo Blade on October 8, 2024.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. The former Ardagh Metal Beverage USA Inc. plant in Whitehouse will soon reopen as a regional distribution center for a New Jersey-based toy company that has been in business for 106 years. Flybar, Inc., which opened in 1918, is best […]

Posted By: Toledo Blade on May 17, 2024.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. A $50 million warehouse project that could bring 500 jobs to Perrysburg Township is on its way to being finalized. A 600,000-square-foot warehouse is being proposed on 162 acres at 9240 Fremont Pike. The location is on the north […]

Posted By: Toledo Blade on May 29, 2024.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. Toledo hopes to turn nearly $1 million in grants into more than $21 million in private-sector investment across the city. Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz and Brandon Sehlhorst, director of economic development, announced at a news conference on Wednesday the selection […]

Posted By: WTOL11 on January 3, 2024.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. WTOL 11 has learned that 2024 could be a significant year for development in Toledo. City leaders said there is currently more than $1 billion of investment property primed for projects this year. Wanting to highlight these various projects, WTOL […]

Posted By: The Blade on October 14, 2023.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. Decades after the city of Toledo tried to attract investment for a new Jeep plant by buying parcels of land south of the Ohio Turnpike to Fallen Timbers, the property has been developed, rezoned, and sold to invested businesses. […]

Posted By: Toledo Blade on September 15, 2023.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. Wood, Lucas, and Ottawa counties are being asked to join forces with the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments to pursue federal grants for shared economic development projects. At Thursday’s Wood County Commissioners meeting, TMACOG President Sandy Spang made […]

Posted By: mlive on May 20, 2023.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. A Grand Rapids-based tech firm, whose online app is designed to help stockholders claim company gifts and perks, has received a $510,000 state grant if it creates up to 73 jobs over the next three years.  TiiCKER, which has offices […]

Posted By: The Detroit News on April 26, 2023.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. Michigan State University is preparing to sell about 1,000 acres of farmland for the assembly of an industrial megasite in a rural area west of Lansing — a potential $21.9 million transaction needed to make the land suitable […]

Posted By: Hometown Life on March 3, 2023.  For more information, please click here to read the source article.   A $19.5 million state-of-the-art recreation and wellness center is coming to Redford Township. And local leaders say it won’t cost taxpayers a dime. The project includes construction of a 30,000-square-foot facility at the township-owned Western Graham Fields in […]

Posted By: The Toledo Blade on March 13, 2023.  For more information, please click here to read the source article.   The city of Toledo wants to expand two grant programs that have made it financially viable for the owners of long-vacant neighborhood commercial buildings to bring them up to code and get them back into productive use. […]

Posted By: The Toledo Blade on December 5, 2022.  For more information, please click here to read the source article.   The dream of a buffer zone between Oregon’s residential neighborhoods and heavy industry centers might soon become a reality. At 7 p.m. on Dec. 19, the Oregon city council will hold a public hearing to consider a […]

Posted By: MiBiz on October 18, 2022.  For more information, please click here to read the source article.   Three economic development organizations serving a 13-county region in West Michigan have narrowed nearly 150 properties down to 10 sites that would be suitable for potentially large industrial or advanced manufacturing projects. The roughly eight-month effort comes as state […]

Posted By: MiBiz on September 6, 2022.  For more information, please click here to read the source article.   Economic development agency The Right Place Inc. has launched plans to transform the greater Grand Rapids area into a technology and innovation hub over the next 10 years. The plan, which was publicly released today, calls for a 4-percent […]

A West Michigan economic development agency created a new division focused on placemaking and tapped an existing executive to run it. Grand Rapids-based The Right Place said Wednesday, Feb. 23, it established a community development division that will be led by Tim Mroz, senior vice president of community development, a member of the organization’s leadership […]

Toledo officials are hoping the Vibrancy Initiative will help local businesses restore the city’s vacant commercial buildings to house a wave of entrepreneurs who have been inspired to launch their own companies. Announced Monday against the backdrop of the Broadway corridor in one of Toledo’s oldest neighborhoods, the pilot program was created to invest in […]

As the city updates its nearly 20-year-old Master Plan to guide future development, local officials say a first-of-its-kind study last year can help ensure equitable outcomes while providing the best return on investments. Downtown Grand Rapids Inc. commissioned the “Economics of Place” study by Washington, D.C.-based Places Platform LLC, which first presented its preliminary findings to business […]

An historic building in downtown Kalamazoo will soon undergo renovations to make way for 11 apartments above the city’s oldest restaurant. The renovations are being led by 266 Michigan Ave. Kalamazoo LLC, which boasts the East Michigan address of the property being renovated in its name, according to a news release from the Michigan Economic […]