Contributions highlight challenges she faces balancing corporate, community interests
Jobs & Economic Development
Posted inArts & Culture, Jobs & Economic Development
Calling Detroit filmmakers: Creative content wanted
A new initiative from the city’s Media Services Department that aims to bring together local actors, directors and screenwriters to network and navigate the city’s film permitting process
Posted inHousing, Jobs & Economic Development
Long-awaited groundbreaking for $1.5B District Detroit gets date
Executives with the development’s codevelopers — the Ilitch organization’s Olympia Development of Michigan and New York-based The Related Companies — plan to start construction on the first of the 10 new buildings and building rehabs in March.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Housing, Jobs & Economic Development
Detroit unveils redevelopment project for Packard Plant site
Packard Park will create jobs, preserve history, establish new housing options and build culture and community.
Posted inJobs & Economic Development, Michigan Government
With clock ticking on 2025, Michigan officials eye biz incentives deal
Michigan lawmakers and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hope to reshape the state’s economic development strategy by year’s end. Time is short for a bipartisan deal.
Posted inJobs & Economic Development
Who wins and who loses as the US retires the penny
It will be felt by people who rely on cash – often people without bank accounts who have the least room to absorb even tiny shifts in price.
Posted inJobs & Economic Development
Advocates prepare for homelessness crisis as feds make funding shift
Michigan homeless service providers warn of more people entering into homelessness amid changes to how the government funds housing programs.
Posted inDetroit City Notebook, Jobs & Economic Development
Detroit City Council approves tax breaks for WNBA headquarters
The project at the former Uniroyal site won’t trigger community benefits negotiations.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Jobs & Economic Development, Political and Public Policy Information
I-375 project moving forward after pause, but with changes
MDOT has restarted the clock on a project that’s expected to create a surface street-level boulevard in place of the interstate on the edge of downtown.
Posted inJobs & Economic Development, Political and Public Policy Information
What shutdown deal means for Michigan food stamps, flight delays, more
As Trump fights full SNAP payments and unpaid air traffic controllers miss work, a tentative deal could soon reopen the federal government. What it means for Michigan.