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Kim Margherio is pictured in her home in Rogers City. Margherio is the community events director with the city’s Downtown Development Authority and is among many residents working to get the city accepted into the Michigan Economic Development Corp.’s Main Street program.
ALPENA Rogers City officials knew the city’s population was declining, Mayor Scott McLennan said, but didn’t know how significant that decline was until a consultant completed an economic development plan last year.
The plan developed by the East Lansing-based firm Place and Main identified population decline as the number-one risk to the city’s future. Since 2000, the city has been on track to lose about 22% of its population or 745 people by 2024
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Adrian s Chris Miller has been tasked with using his economic development expertise to help Michigan cities invest in their communities.
Miller was named an innovation fellow for this year by the Michigan State University Economic Development Administration Center for Regional Economic Innovation, which is federally funded and pushes for innovative economic ideas.
In this role, Miller will work with communities who have engaged in community capital projects and provide them with resources to do more local investing.
Miller is the special projects coordinator for PlaneWave Instruments in Adrian. Most recently, he was Adrian s Downtown Development Authority and economic development coordinator.
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Tecumseh Downtown Development Authority posts survey for public input on strategic plan
Tecumseh DDA is beginning the process of updating its long-term strategic plan and is asking for public input through an online survey.
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TECUMSEH The Tecumseh Downtown Development (DDA) authority has embarked on a process of updating its long-term strategic plan and is asking for public input through a survey.
The survey, which can be found on the city’s website, can be taken by both residents of the city and nonresidents who visit downtown and feel like they have an interest in its development.
COVID-19 Update: Rocket Mortgage and HomeFree-USA Expand Black College Programming, 1918 Influenza History Offers Warning for Future Virus Reemergence, and More
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HOUGHTON The Houghton Planning Commission’s recommendations on downtown development will go beyond the big parking deck.Â
At a special meeting Tuesday, the Planning Commission discussed next steps in tackling the mandate given to them by the City Council. After the Veridea Group withdrew from negotiations over the sale of the parking deck property on Lakeshore Drive, the council last month voted to have the Planning Commission review the year-and-a-half process leading up to that point, and make recommendations on a process going forward.Â
On Wednesday, the City Council formally asked the Planning Commission to incrementally revise chapters of its master plan, after the Planning Commission voted to ask the council for the request at its Tuesday meeting. Part of the revision will include a specific action plan for the big parking deck and downtown development as the first step in another approach. Â