GM’s Tech Center in Warren ranked as one of the best corporate facility projects in the world

Site Selection salutes the best corporate facility projects in the world in 2012, judged by investment, high-value and high-volume job creation, creativity in negotiations and incentives, regional economic impact, competition and speed to market. Nearly all of them also display the … Read More

Quicken’s Dan Gilbert teams up with retailers to revive downtown

Not content to just buy struggling downtown properties, Dan Gilbert and his businesses are working to breathe retail and street life into the central business district, from putting customers in café seats to concerts, movies and hosting a major street art event.

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Donald Trump sees Detroit as a good investment

Donald Trump knew Bill Shea.

Not me, but the genuinely famous and important Bill Shea, the New York lawyer who was instrumental in getting Major League Baseball to put an expansionNational League team in Queens.

The Mets would play 45 years at Shea Stadium, and I’ve spent a good portion … Read More

Detroit’s precarious recovery: ‘It just feels like something is happening here’

Sandra Patterson’s face lights up at the mention of Dan Gilbert. She works the car valet desk at Detroit’s Greektown Casino Hotel, which the entrepreneur has just taken over. “It’s like he’s sprinkling rose petals all over my city,” she says … Read More