Tuesday, January 11, 2022

New Economic Development Program Guidelines Create Historic Opportunity for Economic Growth Across Michigan

Michigan Strategic Fund approves guidelines for new programs that will position state to win transformational, job-creating projects in months, years to come

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Gov. Whitmer announces air mobility corridor development in Michigan and Ontario

• First-of-its-kind aerial mobility corridor study will test the feasibility of commercial drones and other aerial systems in three areas, including cross-border. • Michigan’s aviation system contributes more than $22 billion to the state economy each year. • In 2017, Michigan and Ontario collaborated on North America's first cross-border automated vehicle test drive. • In 2020, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer created the Office of Future Mobility and Electrification (OFME). It works across state government, academia, and private industry to enhance Michigan’s mobility ecosystem, including developing dynamic mobility and electrification policies and supporting the start-up and scale-up of emerging technologies and businesses. • More than half of Michigan's automotive suppliers conduct automated vehicle testing in the state. Michigan offers more than 600 miles of roadway equipped for connected vehicle testing, and it is building the road of the future with a new 40-mile connected corridor project being led by MDOT and OFME.

Monday, January 3, 2022

Crowdfunding campaign launched for ‘East Lansing Patriarche Park Pickleball Project’

$50,000 goal to win matching grant through MEDC’s Public Spaces Community Places initiative