Coverage of projects, big and small, and the people who create them, which promote the economic health of a community, including manufacturing, retail, office, and hospitality developments.
It’s a standard question in the metromode interview – are you hiring? Do you plan to hire anytime soon? (It’s not called the Innovation and Jobs News column for nothing.) For Steve Frey of Universal Parametrics, Inc., the answer was simple: “We’re looking to fill six positions, immediately,” he says. “We are desperately seeking people.”
Ever feel like motorists hold all of the cards in deck stacked against pedestrians and bicyclists in Metro Detroit? Ann Arbor is trying to do something about it, holding a public meeting on finding ways to calm traffic and create safer environments for non-motorized traffic on Jan. 30.
Living at the University of Michigan is about to get a little more plush with the announcement of the University Village project. The development will introduce more vertical student housing to the South University street area where the Village Corner party store stands today.
Strathmore Development is redeveloping 7.3 acres at the southeast corner of Plymouth Road and Maiden Lane long dominated by a brownfield site composed of a vacant shopping center and a handful of other old commercial buildings. Workers hope to finish the mega development, also called Broadway Village, by late 2009.
Stewart Beal, president of Beal Properties, is making another move in Ypsilanti, renovating four damaged and foreclosed apartment buildings.
Key Bank is working on improving the buildings it does business in. The latest is a $1 million renovation of its Ypsilanti branch, set to finish before the end of the month.
All that's left to do is finishing laying the sod on the roof. That's situation with A3C's headquarters in downtown Ann Arbor. The architecture firm has finished all of the renovations to the East Huron St. building except adding the green roof, which it expects to finish this spring.
New and established Ann Arbor companies sank about $100 million into job growth in 2007.
Ann Arbor's Quinn Evans Architects has worked on such buildings as the Wayne County Courthouse restoration, the Motown Museum, the Graphic Arts Building restoration and the Inn on Ferry Street restoration. With more jobs on the horizon, they're looking to add staff.
Eating options in Ann Arbor are about to become a little more luxurious when the Plum Market opens in February. The specialty grocer will open a 28,000-square-foot facility in the Maple Village Shopping Center on the city's northwest side.
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