Venture capital strikes again in Ann Arbor. This time Tissue Regeneration Systems is the recepient, getting a $2 million infusion from Venture Investors.
Growing Hope is starting to sprout near Downtown Ypsilanti. The local non-profit recently broke ground on its new home and it has big plans for the 1.4-acre parcel.
There isn't much about Innovative BioTherapies that isn't a feel-good story. It makes a product that helps save combat soldiers' lives, hopes to transfer that technology to every day medicine while it looks to create a few jobs (and maybe even hire former Pfizer worker or two).
The University of Michigan is looking to tame the suburban style of its North Campus. The school's newly revised master plan call for making it denser, more walkable and enhancing its connections to Central Campus.
The number of historic buildings undergoing renovation in downtown Ann Arbor is increasing. The latest candidate is the Sudworth Building on East Washington, which is in the middle of a $3 million conversion into office space and a brewery/BBQ.
Going once, going twice, one local developer hopes seven historic houses near downtown will be gone for $1. That's the price to buy them, but moving them promises to be much more expensive.
More solar panels are coming to Ypsilanti. Local residents have recently won a $36,000 grant to install 19 solar panels on the Ypsilanti City Hall and Food Co-operative. Both projects are set to begin later this year.
Plenty of people are looking for investment opportunities in southeast Michigan, and the recent Michigan Growth Capital Symposium in Ypsilanti was the place to find it last week.