The Grand Vision Growth and Investment Guiding Principle is to foster public and private investments to strengthen cities, villages and planned growth areas.
The Traverse City Business News Ticker has this story on a proposed hotel for the Warehouse district in Traverse City:
Another hurdle has been cleared to allow demolition to begin as soon as November [...]

From the Traverse City Chamber of Commerce website:

The Northwest Michigan Council of Governments and the Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce awarded the Village of Empire a $20,000 Community Growth Grant on Tuesday, August 24 to the Empire Village Council. The grant was awarded to the village for the purpose of implementing [...]

Here is an article from WISC-TV/Channel3000.com written by Brian Clark in Wisconsin:
In my humble opinion, there’s no better way to get from Wisconsin to mainland Michigan than hopping on the S.S. Badger, a 400-foot-long vehicle and passenger ferry that has been plying the waters of Lake Michigan for more than 50 years.
Once in Michigan, we [...]

The Grand Vision Growth & Investment Guiding Principle is to foster public and private investments to strengthen cities, villages and planned growth areas.
The Detroit News has this article exploring the possibility of a double-dip recession:
With the recovery from the country's worst economic collapse since the Great Depression losing steam, some economists fear the United States [...]

Entrepreneurs seeking funding will be able to present a pitch to angel investors at an event on August 11th.
Boost Northwest Michigan a path to funding your business will give entrepreneurs the opportunity to present a two-minute pitch (no slides) to an audience of experienced investors from the Blue Water Angel Network of Midland, Michigan.
The event [...]

The Detroit Free Press has this article on Detroit's potentiality to have an export boom:
A study to be released today (7/26) by the Brookings Institution, based in Washington, D.C., ranks metro Detroit ninth among the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas for the dollar volume of its 2008 exports, $26.9 billion. Detroit ranks fifth in export-related [...]

Tune in to 7&4 News at 6:25am tomorrow morning (7/28) to watch Mark VanderKlipp talk about the Regional Wayfinding Forum that he will be leading tomorrow afternoon.
"I'm excited to show the audience that the Grand Vision concept has been implemented in many other regions throughout the U.S.," said VanderKlipp, President of Corbin Design. "I hope [...]

The Grand Vision Growth & Investment Guiding Principle is to foster public and private investments to strengthen cities, villages and planned growth areas.
That work seems more important than ever. From the Detroit Free Press:
Michigan's long suffering economy has hit an unexpected pothole on its path to recovery: a slowdown in growth nationally.
That means the long-awaited [...]

Lou Glazer writing for Michigan Future Inc., recently highlighted news coverage on "paying attention to young talent."
Terrific articles on Sunday in both the Grand Rapids Press and the Kalamazoo Gazette on the importance of young professionals to economic growth.
The Press’ article is part of their terrific Michigan 10.0 series. That the issue of retaining and attracting [...]

The Growth & Investment Areas and Transportation/ Transit Working Groups are co-hosting an informational forum from Mark VanderKlipp of Corbin Design to learn more about regional wayfinding and coordinated signage, especially as it relates to bus stops. The forum will be held at the NMC University Center, Room 207 on Wednesday, July 28th from [...]