GRAND RAPIDS - The Michigan Strategic Fund approved a $3 million Michigan Community Revitalization Program incentive to Mid Towne Hospitality for a new hotel development in Grand Rapids. ?The construction of this hotel and mixed-use development will further revitalize the City of Grand Rapids and act as a catalyst for additional positive activity in the
DETROIT ? VernDale Products has received a $436,000 incentive from the Michigan Strategic Fund to add a second milk production facility in Detroit. ?VernDale Products? investment and expansion into a second major facility in the City of Detroit is a testament to the city?s geographic economic strengths and fertile ground for business growth and development,?
LANSING - Rail passengers in Michigan will be the first in the Midwest to have access to a new cellular-connect WiFi service on Amtrak trains beginning in early 2014. The service is part of a contract approved by the Transportation Commission, and which will invest $1 million in the trains. An expected increase in ridership
DETROIT ? A strengthening auto sector helped propel the Comerica Bank's Michigan Economic Activity Index up 2.6 percent in June. The June index was 127.4., 55 points, or 77 percent, above the index cyclical low of 72.1 during the 2009 recession. The index averaged 114 for all of 2012, 11 points above the index average
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Venture Capital Association has named Emily Heintz as its new associate director. In this role, Heintz will work to actively create connections between venture capitalists and promote the state's entrepreneurial and investment communities. ?Bringing Emily on board strengthens MVCA?s position in the state?s entrepreneurial eco-system,? said Carrie Jones, MVCA executive
GRAND RAPIDS - Researchers from Michigan State University, Van Andel Institute and Sweden are closer to developing new drugs that target Parkinson's disease. The researchers have shown significant associations between high levels of pro-inflammatory markers in cerebrospinal fluid and severity of fatigue, depression, anxiety and cognitive impairment in individuals with Parkinson?s disease. ?We hypothesized that
BEIJING, China ? China's Internet was taken down in an attack on Sunday that could have been perpetrated by sophisticated hackers or an individual, security experts say. According to The Wall Street Journal, which earlier reported on the outage, China on Sunday was hit with what the government has called the biggest distributed denial-of-service attack
LANSING - After conducting a Women's Health and Economic Security Task Force during the summer, the Michigan House Democrats said at a news conference on Monday they will continue their work on policies designed to help women overcome hurdles in the work force and with health care access. Rep. Marcia Hovey-Wright (D-Muskegon), who co-chaired the
DETROIT - Unitrends, which provides backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery solutions in Michigan, on Tuesday announced it is giving away a free version of its software-only backup and recovery virtual appliance. The Unitrends Enterprise Backup is offered for the unlicensed version of VMWare vSphere Hypervisor. This solution also enables VMware to compete with
ANN ARBOR - LLamasoft, a supply chain design software provider, and ALK Technologies, specialists in GeoLogistics and navigation software, on Tuesday announced a partnership to offer ALK?s PCMILER routing, mileage and mapping software solution to LLamasoft customers for use in supply chain design. The partnership provides customers an industry-recognized means to accurately calculate distance and