It’s summer in Detroit with hot events at Campus Martius Park, Cadillac Square, Capitol Park, Grand Circus, Paradise Valley

It’s summer in Detroit with hot events at Campus Martius Park, Cadillac Square, Capitol Park, Grand Circus, Paradise Valley

You know it’s summer in the city when events begin at the downtown Detroit’s five historic parks – Campus Martius Park, Cadillac Square, Capitol Park, Grand Circus and Paradise Valley’s Beatrice Buck Park It all started June 1 with Quicken Loans Summer in the Parks, featuring free entertainment daily, all summer long in the parks. […]

So what happens after the Mackinac Policy Conference? In this example, schools, children and Detroit won

So what happens after the Mackinac Policy Conference? In this example, schools, children and Detroit won

One consistent thing that happens at the Mackinac Policy Conference is someone (or multiple someones) has to ask: What, if anything, happens when business leaders, governmental representatives, philantropists, educational experts and the media are stuck together in a hotel for four days? The typical answer is – or, at least, the expectation of those naysayers […]

Detroit Creative Corridor Center invites community to join the UNESCO Detroit City of Design Initiative

Detroit Creative Corridor Center invites community to join the UNESCO Detroit City of Design Initiative

It’s no exaggeration to say the world awaits Detroit – seeking its ideas, its creativity, its designers and their dreams, its manufacturing prowess and its gigantic imagination. To that end, the Detroit Creative Corridor Center (DC3) announced Thursday at the Mackinac Policy Conference the launch of the ten-year Detroit City of Design initiative. Now in […]

Michigan, Israel partner to bring new technologies and jobs to the state

Michigan, Israel partner to bring new technologies and jobs to the state

Building bridges is a great thing. They connect people and cultures, break down separation, and bring businesses to jobs and jobs to businesses. In short, they fill gaps. There’s a new bridge being built between Michigan and Israel. It’s part of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s (MEDC) Pure Michigan Business Connect program and is created […]

Michigan taps high school students to fill growing need for careers in transportation

Michigan taps high school students to fill growing need for careers  in transportation

With a still sluggish economy, the quicker high school students are prepared for their future, the better. Perhaps it was the thought that led The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration to team up and create a more diverse transportation workforce for the future with the Youth Development and Mentoring Program. It is […]

Old Detroit needs as much love as the new Detroit

Old Detroit needs as much love as the new Detroit

I refuse to call it Midtown. The last time I misspoke, I felt stinging from a thousand needles on my tongue, as the ghosts of Cass Corridor chastised me, enraged. I suffered mind-numbing paralysis that left me dazed for hours, as I repeatedly dabbed drool from my lockjaw-frozen lips. It was as if I’d spoken […]

New ads drive home need for strong regional transit in Southeast Michigan to create jobs, improve quality of life

New ads drive home need for strong regional transit in Southeast Michigan to create jobs, improve quality of life

There is no question we need a regional transportation system is Southeast Michigan. It will create jobs. It will help keep and attract talent.  It will give us the same competitive advantage enjoyed by other major cities and regions that see more economic development because they have a strong transportation system. To drive those points home, the Detroit […]

From a humble beginning Bruno Olvera becomes a leader at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and in the Hispanic community

From a humble beginning Bruno Olvera becomes a leader at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and in the Hispanic community

by Claudia Gregory Poets and pundits alike have proclaimed: “it’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” This statement rings particularly true for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ (FCA)Bruno Olvera, 27, who has been selected for the 2016 Young Hispanic Corporate Achievers™ (YHCA) program by the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility. Being selected for the prestigious program, which […]