The University of Michigan realized it had to invest heavily in Ann Arbor’s transportation infrastructure after completing its $108 million acquisition of Ann Arbor’s ex-Pfizer site in 2009.
The economy is making a comeback and Kingfisher cabins in Saugatuck, Michigan offer affordable, rustic luxury near the shores of Lake Michigan.
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Location, Location, Location! Saugatuck Dreams Come True. Family Fun and Finance Go Back to the Basics at Kingfisher … (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
With the tough housing market in Michigan, house flipping can be risky. Even with home improvements, some investors have had a difficult time getting houses rented because there are so many competing rental properties. Those who flipped just to sell are struggling, too, because of the high supply of homes that remain on the market and the pricing collapse in metro Detroit.
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Flip with caution (Detroit Free Press)
Owning a bed-and-breakfast, a dream for many who long to run their own business, has become a dream deferred for many would-be innkeepers.
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Michigan B&B sales slow with credit crunch, down economy (Detroit News)
A host of new firms, veterans of the commercial insurance broker trade, crack the Power Broker TM winners circle for the first time and buck this past recession’s “hunker down” mentality.
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Nimble Brokerage Firms Crack the Inner Circle (Risk & Insurance)
Transcript of the State of the City address from Mayor Steve Luecke: During the past few years I have used this occasion to show off new facilities in South Bend. It’s appropriate that we return to Century
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Read the State of the City of South Bend Address (FOX 28 South Bend)
LANSING — Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm proposed Thursday that the state sales tax be extended to consumer services and the rate dropped from 6 percent to 5.5 percent.
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Mich. governor pitches expanding state sales tax (Petoskey News-Review)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—-Spartan Stores, Inc., today reported financial results for its 16-week third quarter ended January 2, 2010.
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Spartan Stores Announces Third-Quarter Fiscal 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Members of the development team for New York-based Valiant Partners LLC have been in close talks with Ann Arbor community leaders for the past two years on plans for a downtown hotel and conference center. So it came as no……
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Ann Arbor Library Lot: A closer look at the proposal that rose to the top (The Ann Arbor News)
POTTSTOWN — No sooner, it seems, does the state budget get passed than it’s time to start talking about it again — at least as it relates to school budgets.
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Group tries to prove link between school funding, economic development (The Mercury)