Press Releases in August 2024

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

MSF Approves Projects to Create 450 New Jobs, Build Hundreds of Housing Units, and Secure Manufacturing in Michigan

  • Transformational Brownfield Plan to enhance Grand Rapids riverfront with a $700 million investment to build hundreds of new housing units, greenspace, stadium, and amphitheater 
  • Refrigeration company Northland Corporation creating up to 200 jobs, retaining 116 with expansion in Greenville 
  • Brownfield site in Northville to be redeveloped into horse track and community park 

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Monday, August 26, 2024

Crowdfunding Campaign Launched to Complete GR Dragonflies Downtown in Grand Rapids

$50,000 goal to win matching grant through MEDC’s Public Spaces Community Places initiative

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Tuesday, August 20, 2024

West Branch Township Receives Certification as Redevelopment Ready Community

Designation faciliates private investment, improves economic development opportunities

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Monday, August 19, 2024

Crowdfunding Campaign Launched to Complete Swain Memorial Park Playground Project in Brooklyn

$17,500 goal to win matching grant through MEDC’s Public Spaces Community Places initiative

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Friday, August 16, 2024

Michigan Delivers Progress with Innovative Clean Energy Investments

LuxWall and UL Solutions Open High-Tech Facilities, Creating Jobs for Michiganders and Advancing Innovation in Battery Testing and Energy-Efficient Glass

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Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Michigan Economic Development Corporation sets new record with nearly 600 college students participating in 2024 STEAM Ahead summer internships

Michigan is proactively working to ensure college students and recent grads see a long-term future in the Great Lakes State, exemplified through the STEAM Ahead internship program as research shows that internships strongly influence a recent graduate’s decision on where to work and live

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Monday, August 5, 2024

Crowdfunding Campaign Launched to Give New Life to Fantasy Forest in St. Johns

$75,000 goal to win matching grant through MEDC’s Public Spaces Community Places initiative

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