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Issue 18, Volume 1
August 2010
Region Can Attract Businesses, Young Talent with Mass Transit
By: Robert A. Ficano, 8/30/2010
Plans for a mass transit system are finally rolling in the Detroit Region, but there is plenty of work still to be done.
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Director's Corner: Growing Exports and Creating Jobs Through the Aerotropolis
By: Turkia Awada Mullin, 8/30/2010
The Aerotropolis Development Corporation (ADC) is a core component of Wayne County's regional plans to integrate transportation, economic development and land use planning to make Metro Detroit a leading economic gateway to the state, nation, and world. (more >)
 
Community Spotlight: Grosse Pointe Park
By: Pat Dostine, 8/30/2010
How community spirit goes, so goes a city. In Grosse Pointe Park, community spirit is active and the city shows. It's one of the finer cities around. Drive it, you'll see. (more >)
 
Company Spotlight: The Oakwood Group
By: Wayne County EDGE, 8/30/2010
Oakwood Industries was founded in 1943 by Francois Audi. The first products manufactured were water pumps supplied to Ford Motor Company for their production of tractors. (more >)
 
EDGE Spotlight: Sugar Hill & the N'Namdi Art Gallery
By: Geoff Young, 8/30/2010
Ernie and Diane Zachary have adopted the name "Sugar Hill" to define their multi-block project, a take off of the eclectic Sugar Hill district of Harlem in New York City. Their vision for Sugar Hill combines the music and arts influences of Harlem's Sugar Hill district with the current and historic music and arts culture of Detroit's Midtown district. (more >)
 
Guest Blogger: Tales from The Set
By: Carrie Jones, 8/30/2010
There have been a lot of positive developments in the Detroit/Wayne County area this summer, highlighted by a number of great productions. Real Steal, starring Hugh Jackman, has been one of the bigger shows in town. While official job numbers won't be in until year's end, the shoot is here for several months and has hired thousands of extras for scenes shot at Cobo Arena. (more >)
 
EDGE TV: West Dearborn
By: Tom Hendrickson, 8/30/2010
EDGE TV takes a look at one of Wayne County's gem main streets in West Dearborn. Situated in a town made famous by Henry Ford and strengthen by the large Arabic population that now calls it home, West Dearborn is as strong of a downtown as they come.
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Featured: Growth Company
Oakwood Industries was founded in 1943 by Francois Audi. The first products manufactured were water pumps supplied to Ford Motor Company for their production of tractors.

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Featured: Growth Area
Some of the most innovative work done in Southeast Michigan comes from a large, renowned field of top-notch designers, including cool furniture makers in Royal Oak, cutting edge fashion labels in Detroit, and a much-sought-after tile-works in Ann Arbor.  And don't forget the gleaming cars that come from the creative minds all over metro Detroit.
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Grosse Pointe Park

How community spirit goes, so goes a city. In Grosse Pointe Park, community spirit is active and the city shows. It's one of the finer cities around. Drive it, you'll see. The 2.2-square-mile city, bordered by Lake St. Clair in the northeastern corner of the county, with its mature urban trees making leafy tunnels along residential streets, its precisely mowed lawns and boulevards, its flowers, public gardens, its attentive business districts on Jefferson, Kercheval, Charlevoix and Mack Avenue, its two remarkable waterfront parks, is a convincing presentation of a community that cares intensely about a particular way of life.

 
 
 
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