If the key to survival is adapting to the surrounding environment, then Chelsea Lumber has that down to a science. The company is still going strong after 100 years.
As more and more start-ups look to make names and profits for themselves in the life sciences game, it's firms like Biotechnology Business Consultants that help them take flight. The 18-year-old firm has grown to five people and expects to add another person as it helps more and more businesses grow.
In a time of war is it any wonder a firm like Ann Arbor's Solidica is going after more military contracts. The wireless sensor development firm has created 15 jobs in the last two years and hopes to do so again in the next two.
The number of people who work for Ann Arbor's Translume is nearly double the number of years the company has been around, and the glass micro-machining firm hopes to add a few more jobs to that total in the near future.
DesignHub is making a name for itself in Saline and helping the small town make a name in the new economy. The website development and marketing firm has grown to four people and hopes to add another job or two sooner rather than later.
The Banks of Saline project is moving forward, receiving $1 million in state money to clean up a brownfield site and gearing up to start construction this fall.
Another downtown Ann Arbor office building has come roaring back to life. This time it's the Key Bank Building, which has recently finished an extensive renovation, restoring a number of prominent historical features.
Work is set to begin the latest development in downtown Dexter. The developer of Mill Creek Terrace hopes to break ground in June and finish the 27,000-square-foot building within one year.
The price of real-estate in Ann Arbor is going up enough to shock some sticklers after the 9,500-square-foot, old Anderson Paint Building sold for $1.8 million.
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