M2 TechCast: Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance - Business Attraction, STEM Jobs

M2 TechCast: Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance – Business Attraction, STEM Jobs

FERNDALE – Matthew Felan President & CEO of the Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance, talk about economic development in the Saginaw-Bay City region. The prosperity zone actually includes eight counties. The group is 100 percent privately funded, by Fortune 50 companies like Dow Chemical, and by hospitals, businesses and academic institutions. The region includes about 550,000 people.

The alliance is focused on business attraction, STEM education, and on transportation infrastructure improvements that will impact the region. Examples include the Saginaw River, which serves Great Lakes and Ocean shipping and the MBS International Airport.

To learn more about the Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance, click on https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit/m2-episode-35-matthew-felan-great-lakes-bay-reg-alliance?in=podcastdetroit/sets/m2techcast-on-podcastdetroit

By Mike Brennan|2016-05-24T16:21:08-04:00May 24th, 2016|M2 TechCast, Podcasts|

About the Author: Mike Brennan

Founder of Michigan News Network, and serves as CEO, as well as Editor & Publisher of MITECHNEWS.COM. Brennan has worked since 1980 as a technology writer at newspapers in New York, NY, San Jose, CA., Seattle, WA., Memphis, TN., Detroit, MI., and London, England. He co-founded and served as managing editor of Pacific Rim News Service (SEATTLE), which developed a network of more than 100 freelance journalists in 17 Asia-Pacific countries.