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ARCHITECTUREEdward Pocock tovice presidentand senior projectmanager, Health-care Studio,Hobbs+Black Ar-chitects, Ann Ar-bor, from seniorproject architect,Albert Kahn As-sociates, Detroit.

EDUCATIONDouglas Czajkowski to executive di-rector, office of development andalumni affairs, Wayne State Universi-ty School of Medicine, Detroit, fromsenior director of development andalumni affairs, Wayne State Universi-ty Schools of law, nursing and phar-macy.John Birney to president, Brother RiceHigh School, Bloomfield Hills, fromprincipal.

ENTERTAINMENTJim Reid to event coordinator, PalaceSports and Entertainment, AuburnHills, from production manager,Hemisphere Entertainment, Mt.Clemens.

FINANCEDonald Antcliff to district manager,West Oakland district, Bank One,Novi, from district manager, North-ern Michigan district, Traverse Cityand Petoskey. Also, Jacquelyn Hollo-well to district manager, downtownDetroit, southwest and southeast De-troit, and Harper Woods, Detroit, fromarea manager, investment sales staff,Wayne and Macomb county branches;

Nathaniel Wasson to southern districtmanager of Meijer in-store branches,Ann Arbor, from district manager,Chicago; and Shak Adebimpe to man-ager, north district of Meijer in-storebranches, from regional in-storessales manager, Citizens FinancialGroup, Norfolk, Mass.Robert Aldrich, president of MAV De-velopment Co., Ann Arbor; and Don-ald Soenen, chairman and CEO ofSensors Inc., Saline, and chairman ofAll Weather Inc., Sacramento, Calif.,to the board of directors of PlymouthFinancial Corp., Plymouth, parentcompany for New Liberty Bank, Ply-mouth.Patrick Dunleavy to partner, dispute

resolution prac-tice, and firm di-rector of commer-cial litigationsupport services,Virchow Krause &Co. L.L.P., Bing-ham Farms, frompartner/share-holder, ConwayMacKenzie &Dunleavy, Birm-ingham.

HOSPITALITYHeidi Nowak to director of sales andmarketing, The Ritz-Carlton,Dearborn, from director of sales, TheRitz-Carlton, Cleveland. Also, JohnWesterhuis to director of group salesfrom director of sales and marketing,Garland Resort, Lewiston.

LAWHenry Andries Jr., Michael Ben andMarcia Bennett Boyce to partner,Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn

L.L.P., Detroit, from member.Edward Frankfort to partner, BodmanL.L.P., Troy, from senior attorney.Also, Thomas Bruetsch and JessicaDavis to partners from associate attor-neys; and Larry Gremel, ChristianeMcKinley and Joseph Viviano to part-ners from associates.Gerald Gleeson II to senior counsel,

criminal defense,litigation group,Miller, Canfield,Paddock andStone plc, Troy,from assistantprosecuting attor-ney, OaklandCounty Prosecu-tor’s Office, Ponti-ac. Also, JamesSimpson, MarkWilson and Kath-

eryne Zelenock to principal, Troy,from senior counsel.

MEDIAJeffrey Kapuscinski to vice presidentof market development, Detroit News-paper Partnership L.P., Detroit, fromvice president of market development,the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,Rochester, N.Y.

NONPROFITSCheryl Loveday to chief executive di-rector, Angels’ Place, Southfield, fromCOO.Monica Cheick-Luoma to director ofcommunications and events, Forgot-ten Harvest, Southfield, from projectengineer, Budco, Highland Park.John Thorhauer to vice president andCOO, United Methodist RetirementCommunities, Chelsea, from director,Armed Forces Retirement Home,

Gulfport, Miss.

REAL ESTATEPaul Gobeille to principal, Lee & Asso-

ciates of Michi-gan, Novi, fromassociate broker,Signature Associ-ates, Southfield.Also, JeffreyBuckler to princi-pal, from vicepresident-indus-trial group,Grubb & Ellis,Southfield; andJames Roberts to

industrial associate, from industrialassociate, Friedman Real EstateGroup, Farmington Hills.

PEOPLEPEOPLEIN THE SPOTLIGHTPlymouth-based auto supplierMetaldyne Corp. has named Linda

Theisen, 45,vice president,commercialoperations forthe powertraingroup. She willbe responsiblefor sales,purchasing andprogrammanagementactivities.

Theisen had been vice president,quality, Six Sigma and process. Shereplaces Doug Grimm, who hasjoined another organization.“Linda is an excellent leader whowill play a key role in helping thepowertrain group’s commercialoperations achieve its goals,” saidTom Chambers, president of thegroup.Theisen joined Metaldyne in 2003as vice president of supply chainmanagement. Last year, she wasappointed to her most recentposition where she was responsiblefor Metaldyne’s quality initiatives,Metaldyne University and thecompany’s focus on Six Sigma.She holds a master’s degree inlabor relations as well as abachelor of science degree inpackaging engineering fromMichigan State University.Theisen will continue to overseequality, Six Sigma and processuntil a replacement is named.

Theisen

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2006 Detroit Regional ChamberMackinac Policy Conference

‘Pure Michigan’ ad campaign winskudos from crowd

BY AMY LANECAPITOL CORRESPONDENT

MACKINAC ISLAND — Gov.Jennifer Granholm on Fridaymade an impassioned pitch of hereconomic plan for Michigan, but itwas the state’s new tourism adthat brought down the house at theDetroit Regional Chamber’s MackinacPolicy Conference.

The state’s new “Pure Michigan”tourism campaign, which beganrunning May 22 and plays on thenatural resources and qualitiesthat make Michigan unique, re-ceived a standing ovation from theaudience packedinto the room forher speech.

The ads, createdby Birmingham-based McCann Er-ickson Worldwide,capture “an emo-tional appeal ofthe state,” saidGeorge Zimmer-mann, vice presi-dent of, the state’stourism-marketing arm.

But it was McCann’s initial cre-ative response to the state that par-ticularly impressed attendees — apitch that called on viewers to “findyour true north” in Michigan. Thatslogan isn’t being used in the finalad product, however.

State officials said they needed aslogan and focus that would sell allthe state’s attributes, and the “truenorth” part of the pitch wouldn’tmake a splash in markets like Mil-waukee and Ontario, where the adsare running, Zimmermann said.

“We are not true north to them,”he said. “We need something tosell the entire state.”

Zimmermann said the new adscapture the emotion of the originalcreative, which he said “got us towhere we are with the new spot.”

The ads’ showing culminated aGranholm address in which sheagain laid out her economic planand accomplishments, including ac-celerating infrastructure projects,matching workers with jobs and re-

training others, cutting business-permitting time and putting per-mits online, and tax cuts.

The latter includes a $600 mil-lion tax cut approved by the Legis-lature last year that benefitedmanufacturers by reducing per-sonal-property taxes and alteringsingle-business-tax liability.

Granholm also highlighted thestate’s new 21st Century Jobs Fund,which has received 505 proposalsseeking more than $1.1 billion forventures in life sciences, alterna-tive energy, advanced manufactur-ing and homeland security and de-fense.

The fund has amaximum $100million to giveout this year.

AnotherGranholm focusis the MichiganFirst health careplan, an initiativedesigned to helpsmall-businessemployees, self-

employed people and others whodon’t have access to employer-based health insurance and don’tqualify for government programs.

The plan, first announced inGranholm’s January State of theState address, is designed to subsi-dize care, create affordable insur-ance for individuals that covers ba-sic health services, and provideincentives for businesses to offer in-surance to their employees. Michi-gan is applying for a federal waiverunder Medicaid for the plan, andGranholm said she hopes to have it“up and running” by April 2007.

Republicans criticized Gran-holm’s jobs plan, which MichiganRepublican Party Chair SaulAnuzis called “repackaged” fromprevious years.

“The ‘plan’ is all style and no sub-stance,” Anuzis said in a news re-lease. “The actions Gov. Granholmhas taken have transformed Michi-gan from an economic success sto-ry to a single-state recession.”

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The Blues to expand initiatives to physicians, hospitals Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

said on Thursday it is expandinginitiatives in which it works withphysicians and hospitals to im-prove the quality and efficiency ofhealth care, ultimately reducinghealth care costs.

At the Mackinac Policy Confer-ence, the Blues said they werelaunching a second physician in-centive program that pays physi-cians a premium for meeting

benchmarks to improve such ar-eas as the generic drug-dispensingrate and treatment of patients withchronic conditions.

With the expansion announcedThursday, the number of partici-pating physicians will grow to4,000 and an additional 400,000 pa-tients will be reached, the Bluessaid.

— Amy Lane

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MACKINAC ISLAND — As law-makers ramp up the debate to re-place Michigan’s single-businesstax, it’s not just the tax itself thatconcerns the business community.

At stake are nearly $2 billion intax-credit promises made to busi-ness expansions or relocations un-der the Michigan Economic Growth Au-thority program or for brownfieldredevelopments.

“Companies are very con-

cerned,” said Michigan Eco-nomic Development Corp.President and CEO JimEpolito. “I don’t thinkthere’s any question thatthe single-business tax isgoing away. What’s reallykey to business is thatthose tax credits that werenegotiated stay in place.”

Since the MEGA pro-gram’s 1995 inception, the

state has offered about $2billion in SBT credits for276 projects bearing a po-tential investment of $14billion and 65,499 jobs.About $150 million of thecredits have been claimed,according to the MEDC.The credits kick in as com-panies meet thresholds forjobs created or retained.

Under another program

to provide incentives to invest inbrownfield property, the state hasgranted about $456 million in SBTcredits for 363 projects totaling anestimated $6 billion in investment.

Doug Brown, director of develop-ment for Brighton-based ASTI Envi-ronmental, said the brownfield cred-its are “absolutely a deal-maker.The lion’s share of projects wouldnot get done” without the credit.

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SBT debate raises question of tax creditsover the SBT’s replacement — a de-bate escalating in the wake of Oak-land County Executive L. BrooksPatterson’s May 30 submission ofabout 372,000 petition signatures toput the issue before the Legislatureor on the November ballot.

The Board of State Canvassers has60 days to certify petition signa-tures, after which the Legislaturehas 40 days to approve the initiativeas a law. If the Legislature does notenact the measure it would go onthe ballot. But Republican leadershave indicated they are prepared toapprove the proposal, which wouldeliminate the SBT on Dec. 31, 2007.

Senate Majority Leader KenSikkema, R-Wyoming, and HouseSpeaker Craig DeRoche, R-Novi,have formed a joint committee torecommend a replacement plan tothe Legislature by Dec. 1. The com-mittee also is charged with recom-mending legislation that protectsthe integrity of existing tax credits.

Interviewed at the Detroit Region-al Chamber’s Mackinac Policy Confer-ence, the MEDC’s Epolito said taxcredits are “one issue that every-body’s kind of come together on.”And Gov. Jennifer Granholm,asked about the issue by Crain’s,said “it’s very clear that you haveto preserve the promises that weremade to companies to come here.”

Epolito said the MEDC continuesto discuss the credit with compa-nies whose investment it hopes toattract, because “until it goes away,it’s not away.”

Sarah Hubbard, vice presidentof government relations with theDetroit chamber, said that main-taining the credits is importantnot just to companies that have re-ceived them but to continue a pri-mary incentive that helps Michi-gan compete with other states.

A poll of local executives releasedat the chamber’s conference foundthat of those who support eliminat-ing the SBT, 44 percent said itshould not be replaced with anotherbusiness tax; about 30 percent saidit should. The SBT generates about$1.9 billion annually.

The poll by Troy-based John Bailey& Associates Inc. found that of thosewho think the SBT should be re-placed, 64 percent said its replace-ment should not change state rev-enue. Twenty-seven percent saidthere should be a revenue cut.

The Detroit chamber is promot-ing a plan to establish an annualbusiness-license fee based on afirm’s in-state sales. The plan wouldproduce about $1.3 billion to $1.5 bil-lion in revenue and provide a $400million to $500 million tax cut.

Rep. Chris Ward, R-Brighton, isdrafting legislation that he plans tointroduce in the next two weeks toenact the proposal. The fee scalewould begin at $1,000 for businesseswith Michigan sales over $350,000,and climb to a maximum of $1 mil-lion for companies with Michigansales of more than $100 million.

It’s also possible the proposal, inan altered form, could be a vehicleto eliminate Michigan’s personal-property tax.

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Panelists: Leaders shouldn’t try to play it safeBY TOM HENDERSONCRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS

MACKINAC ISLAND — HowardBell, executive director for Tech-Town, the Wayne State University-af-filiated high-tech incubator thatopened two years ago, told a Fri-day morning session at the DetroitRegional Chamber’s Mackinac PolicyConference that political leaders“need to get comfortable with theconcept of failure.”

Speaking as part of a panel ondefining Michigan’s leadershipagenda, Bell said that leaders can’tget bogged down worrying aboutfailure or trying to play it safe.

They need, he said, to emulatethe entrepreneurs he deals with —people who know that failure is aninevitable part of being creativeand trying to improve the world.

“As we move forward with newtechnologies, we don’t really knowwhere we’re going. A lot of the en-trepreneurs in the new technolo-gies are going to fail as part of theprocess,” he said.

“You need to be a marathon-ori-ented group of leaders. You can’tworry about being chastised forfailure.”

Fellow panelist Edsel Ford II,civic leader and president of Wa-terford Township-based PentastarAviation, said first and foremostleaders need integrity. “If you

don’t have integrity, you don’thave any leadership skills.”

Ford, a former Ford Motor Co. ex-ecutive and son of Henry Ford II,also said leaders can’t be too retro-spective. “It’s good to have arearview mirror, but my grandfa-ther made the rearview mirror alot smaller than the windshield.You need to look forward.”

Ford said leaders need to thinkregionally, leverage the region’s

assets, promote volunteer leader-ship, don’t hang around too long,look to the young and be bold.

“This region came together toput on the best Super Bowl thatwas ever seen, in a city they saidcouldn’t do it. It took leaders likeRoger Penske. It’s the concept ofbold. We need bold leaders, or we’lljust keep seeing what we’ve seenup until today.”

“The Super Bowl was a com-

pelling project because the region’sreputation was at stake,” said pan-elist Paul Hillegonds, senior vicepresident of corporate affairs andcommunications at DTE Energy Co.in Detroit. “The business leaderscame together and said, ‘We don’thave time for politics.’ ”

Moderator David Egner, presi-dent of the Hudson-Webber Founda-tion in Detroit, offered this re-sponse to an audience question

about how to get politicians toagree on regional transportation:“We have leaders who derive theirpower base by keeping us divided.How do we marginalize these peo-ple so we can move forward?”

“People are ahead of their politi-cians in many cases. We can’t af-ford leadership that’s scapegoat-ing,” Hillegonds said.

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Lawmakers say they areworking on fuel prices

MACKINAC ISLAND — Law-makers from Michigan represent-ing the state in Washington say so-lutions to rising gas prices andother transportation issues arepossible today, and are taking upmuch of their time in the nation’scapital.

That was the message that cameout of a lunchtime session at theDetroit Regional Chamber’s MackinacPolicy Conference being heldthrough today at Mackinac Island.

The session dealt with federal is-sues affecting Michigan, concen-trating in large part on what law-makers are doing in Washingtonto help stave rising fuel prices andbring mass transit to the region.

Participants were Rep. JohnDingell, Sen. Debbie Stabenow,Rep. Sander Levin, Rep. CarolynCheeks-Kilpatrick and Rep. BartStupak, D-1.

Stupak said that solutions existtoday to escalating prices. Hecalled for more federal regulationover the price of oil and those whodictate said costs. Stupak said theCommodity Future Trade Commissioncould be responsible for helpingcontrol the costs. Currently, nosuch controls exist, he said.

“We could cut the price of oil inhalf today,” Stupak said.

Levin called for more gas sta-tions to offer E-85 fuel — fuel thatis 85 percent grain-based and 15percent petroleum.

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Study: State has lowest health care costs in regionBY TOM HENDERSONCRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS

A study released Friday at theDetroit Regional Chamber’s MackinacPolicy Conference said that im-proved efficiencies in the pastdecade have helped give Michiganthe lowest health costs for sixGreat Lakes states, and lower coststhan hospitals nationwide.

The study, by Harold Cohen, aBaltimore-based health care econ-omist, was commissioned by theLansing-based Michigan Health &Hospital Association.

The other states were Illinois,Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana andPennsylvania.

Highlights of the study, based on2004 data, were:

■ The average hospital patient in

Michigan pays about $520, or 6.1percent less than patients in otherGreat Lakes states. That’s $8,060 apatient compared with $8,580.

■ Costs were lower even thoughthe state’s hospital employees earnmore than those in other states.

■ Michigan businesses save$500 million a year over what theywould pay if state hospital costswere at the national average.

■ The average hospital stay inthe state decreased to 4.9 daysfrom 6.7 days in 1994.

■ Quality of care for those hos-pitalized from the four majorsources — heart attacks, heart fail-ure, pneumonia and infectionfrom surgery — ranked higher inMichigan than nationally.

■ Michigan hospitals generatedlower profits than four other Great

Lakes states and were below the na-tional average. Michigan profitmargins were 2.8 percent, com-pared with the national average of3.6 percent. Illinois was slightly be-hind Michigan.

■ Michigan had 144 communityhospitals in 2004, down two from2000, but the number of full-time-equivalent employees was up 5.5percent to 158,420.

■ Charity care and bad debt to-taled $556 million in Michigan.

■ Because Medicaid is now rat-ed as a poor payer, Michigan em-ployers paid about 6.3 percentmore, or about $550 million, than ifMedicaid paid its fair share.

Gerald Fitzgerald, president andCEO of Oakwood Healthcare Inc. andchairman of the Michigan Health &Hospital Association, said there wasmore good news in the past year.

He said results of a quality initia-tive sponsored by the association at127 intensive-care units in the stateshowed that hospital stays were re-duced by more than 84,000 days,saved $175 million, saved 1,594 livesand resulted in 68 hospitals report-ing zero hospital-caused blood-stream infections or pneumoniasfor six months or longer.

He said a new “Save Lives, SaveDollars” campaign launched bythe Greater Detroit Area Health Coun-cil is targeting savings of $500 mil-lion over three years or to reducehealth care expenditures in South-east Michigan by at least 1 percent.

Tom Henderson: (313) 446-0337,[email protected]

State to spend $20 million onbusiness-marketing campaign

Officials on Thursday unveileda new campaign that puts Michi-gan back in the business-market-ing arena and uses stateside CEOsuccess stories to drive home thepoint that Michigan can offer busi-

nesses “The Up-per Hand,” thenew campaign’sslogan.

“Other peoplehave to knowthat Michigan isan attractiveplace to relocateto, Michigan isan attractiveplace to expand,”

said Subhendu Guha, president andCOO of Auburn Hills-based UnitedSolar Ovonic L.L.C. and one of the ads’featured businesspeople.

The ads tout attributes such asthe state’s highly trained work-force and supply of engineers andscientists, and Michigan EconomicDevelopment Corp. business assis-tance and incentives.

Michigan actor and director JeffDaniels, founder of the Purple RoseTheatre Co. in Chelsea, introducessuccess stories in the ads, as donews media personalities such asCNBC’s Maria Bartiromo andCBS’ Charles Osgood.

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DeVos, Granholm square off at chamber fundraiser

Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Re-publican gubernatorial contenderDick DeVos on Wednesday took ear-ly campaign jabs on Mackinac Is-land.

DeVos drew on his leadership ex-periences and said “we need to turnMichigan around,” much as he saidhe did when he was the formerpresident of Ada-based Alticor Inc.,Amway Corp.’s parent company.

“I think the governor has to bepart of that turnaround solution,”he said.

DeVos reorganized the compa-ny, which was in decline, and alsomade decisions like expandinginto China — a move that Democ-rats have criticized for Michiganjob loss. DeVos has said that “notone Michigan job” was sent to Chi-na, and expanding into the Chi-nese market created 300 Michiganjobs and preserved others.

DeVos said the internationalmarketplace is “a reality todaythat we have to deal with,” and thestate needs to “make it work forus, and not against us.”

As for the state’s current eco-nomic condition, he said: “I thinkthere’s plenty of blame to goaround for where we are. Theblame game does not interest me.”

Granholm said Michigan’s chal-lenges are tied to its auto sector.And she reiterated her economicplan that includes acceleratingpublic-infrastructure projects,matching qualified workers withjobs and retraining others, and en-acting changes that range fromcutting business-permitting timeand putting permits on line, to a$600 million tax cut that benefitedmanufacturers by reducing per-sonal-property taxes and alteringsingle-business-tax liability.

Granholm also highlighted thestate’s new 21st Century Jobs Fund,which has received 505 proposalsseeking more than $1.1 billion, forventures in life sciences, alterna-tive energy, advanced manufactur-ing, and homeland security and de-fense. The fund has a maximum$100 million to give out this year.

The chamber has not decidedwhether or whom it will endorseand plans to interview candidatesafter the Aug. 8 primary.

— Amy Lane

How to succeed in China — by really trying

When Jack Perkowski left WallStreet for China 12 years ago, hedidn’t have much more than his 25years of experience as a U.S. busi-nessman, an open mind and ablank piece of paper.

It’s paid off.Perkowski owns Asimco, one of

the largest foreign-invested manu-facturing organizations in Chinaspecializing in automotive compo-nents, with $400 million in annualsales. The company is based in Bei-jing with 18 manufacturing plantsand 36 sales offices in China andthree offices in the United States.

His message was clear: Any-thing is possible in China, butnothing is easy.

For example, he said, you don’thave to be an expert in China to dobusiness in China. You don’t evenhave to speak Chinese, Mandarinor any other foreign language.

“I’m the last person you wouldhave predicted to live outside theUnited States, let alone in a coun-

try like China,”Perkowski said.

And if yourcompany in-tends to do busi-ness in the coun-try, you need tohave yourbrightest andbest executivesthere.

“If China isimportant to your company, yoursenior-most executives need to beinvolved,” Perkowski said. “Youdon’t want to delegate to your ju-nior members.”


Panel: Working together is onlyoption for regional success

Officials from metropolitan cen-ters from around the country of-fered examples Thursday abouthow Southeast Michigan can bene-fit from what other areas havedone to rebuild.

The panel consisted of SteveBurkholder, mayor of Lakewood,Colo.; Sherrie Gilchrist, presidentand CEO of the Chattanooga AfricanAmerican Chamber of Commerce; andJames Hunt, president of the Na-tional League of Cities.

Burkholder, for example, saidhis inner-ring suburb of Denver isworking with 31 other area citiesto improve transportation in thearea. His point was that cohesive-ness is necessary for success.

“The attitude you have to haveis that these are issues that need tobe addressed as a region; whathappens to our neighbors happensto us,” Burkholder said.

Gilchrist said available modes offunding and creative programs alsoplay a role in rebuilding a region.

For example, she said, peoplewho moved to the downtown areawere given $40,000 toward the inte-rior renovation of a house if theystayed for five years. Outside reno-vations were free.

More than 100 new and im-proved houses have been added. Anew aquarium was built. Other en-tities followed: Blue Cross BlueShield of Tennessee recently builtits new headquarters downtown.

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BY TOM HENDERSONCRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS

MACKINAC ISLAND — A pitchto expand Cobo Center to includecharter schools, laboratory and of-fice space for new high-tech com-panies, including those in alterna-tive fuels, caught officials atTechTown and the NextEnergy Cen-ter by surprise.

The two Detroit-based programsalso focus on high-tech and alter-native energy research and devel-opment.

Jim Croce,CEO of NextEner-gy Corp., andHoward Bell, ex-ecutive directorof TechTown,said they firstheard of theplan to housebusiness re-search and incu-bator space at Cobo at a lunch pan-el Thursday at the MackinacPolicy Conference.

The plan was floated as a way todevelop new revenue streams forCobo to finance an expansion toprovide more space for the NorthAmerican International Auto Show.The goal would also be to marketCobo as a meeting space for techni-cal conferences tied to alternativeenergy.

Previous attempts to expandCobo have been stymied by financ-ing questions and political opposi-tion. But the Coalition for Michigan’sFuture, the group that held Thurs-day’s briefing, has already engagedsupport from two key Republicans.U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg said hewould introduce federal legislationto provide $50,000 for a feasibilitystudy for an expanded center.Craig DeRoche, speaker of theMichigan House, said he would tryto match that with state funding.No estimate was offered on what itwould cost to expand Cobo as amultiuse facility.

Croce called the panel and pressconference “a left-field announce-ment. I can’t speak for why theproponents orchestrated the an-nouncement the way they did. …But they reached out to us after thepress conference, and they want usto be part of the feasibility study.”Croce said he had doubts the pro-posal would prove feasible.

Supporters said a feasibilitystudy would cost up to $125,000 andcould be finished in six to ninemonths. They said the expandedCobo would include the 1 millionsquare feet the Detroit Auto DealersAssociation want for the auto showand upper floors that could be usedby charter schools and researchlabs.

Bell said Friday morning that hehad yet to hear from anyone at thedealers’ association or coalition.

“I have two reactions,” Bell said.“One, I’m always happy to see peo-ple thinking creatively. … But …

one of the themes of this confer-ence is about collaboration andkeeping everyone in economic de-velopment involved in the process.It’s clear to me that they didn’t getall the necessary parties aroundthe table to discuss this before an-nouncing it at such a visible set-ting as the Mackinac Conference.

“We need a new Cobo, no ques-tion, and we need more federalR&D dollars in Michigan. Butwhen you combine these two fi-nancial needs in one package, areyou taking two negatives and mak-ing a positive? Sometimes you geta positive, and sometimes you geta bigger negative.”

NextEnergy has 45,000 squarefeet of conference and office space

and 20,000 square feet for lease, allof it committed. But Croce saidthere is plenty of space for alterna-tive-fuel companies at TechTown’sTech One building across thestreet.

Bell said Tech One has 24 ten-ants occupying about 42,000 of the60,000 square feet that has beenrenovated so far. The second halfof the building is scheduled to berenovated during the next twoyears.

Tech Town owns a second build-ing nearby, the old Criminal Jus-tice Building, which has about an-other 120,000 square feet that willbe renovated as market conditionswarrant, at a cost of between $20

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