"There was a tremendous money-generating aspect to Richard's work," Frantz says. "We did it in a grand way. We traveled in style. We stayed in boutique hotels in most of the places we were working." But it is wrong, he says, to see any conflict in Florida's dire pronouncements on the places that bankrolled this success, because he hadn't promised prosperity in the first place. "He wasn't really making prescriptions," Frantz says. "This wasn't Jesus Christ throwing the money men out of the temple; this was an academic. He was a fucking college professor, and you're hoping to resurrect Canton, Ohio? Yeah, good luck with that."

More than 70 community leaders, and six individual co-chairs have launched this region's most comprehensive initiative to ensure the smart and successful growth of the Ann Arbor region well into the 21st century. At the very time when the economic climate sees private and public sector organizations pulling back, these leaders in local business, education, government and non-profit enterprise are pulling together to launch Ann Arbor Region Success.

Trenda Rusher is the Executive Director of the Washtenaw County Michigan Works! / Workforce Development and Community Action Boards in Washtenaw County, and serves as a Washtenaw County Department Head for ETCS.

Dexter-based cell phone refurbishing and recycling company Recellular plans to hire 40 people and expand its Michigan operations to Ann Arbor after receiving $15 million in investments, a company spokeswoman said today.

Reporter Tina Reed can be reached at 734-994-6843 or treed@annarbornews.com.

Recellular is receiving the $15 million in Series A financing from IGC, a New-York based investor growth capital firm, said spokeswoman Angela Beaubien. The company plans to lease office space in north Ann Arbor and fill it with managerial positions such as finance, sales and marketing jobs. It plans hire up to 40 people in the next three months, she said.

"I have the phone number of the gentleman at Google who's in charge of the new building, and I can call him anytime I want," Hieftje said.

Nostalgia for some better past stems from an inability or an unwillingness to affect the present. What we can’t or won’t change we imagine to be on some inevitable trajectory of decline.

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The Detroit newsletter slash website Metromode reports that SRT opens Ann Arbor office, more than triples its employees. Although, it looks as though it was a reprinted press release, the notion of third spaces is one that I’m pursuing with coworking me

Aernnova is formerly the aeronautical division of Grupo Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica. The company dates back to 1986, when it was called Fibertecnic. Gamesa Aeronautic was formed in 1993.

With its tree-lined streets, coffee shops and jaywalking, it's not unlike Eugene -- if Eugene lacked mountains and had a much bigger football stadium.

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Ann Arbor officials have declared five apartment houses in predominantly student neighborhoods to be uninhabitable, forcing University of Michigan students like Sarah Taylor to look for new places to live just as the fall term is about to begin.

Publishing systems developer MediaSpan will relocate its corporate headquarters from Raleigh, N.C., to Ann Arbor, Mich., over the next several months. The decision to move was influenced in part by an attractive tax incentive package by the state of Michi

Google Ann Arbor is staffed with only about 100 or so employees; a lot of the AdWords work is still done in Mountain View. But there are plans to increase the staff to 1,000 people and make Ann Arbor the headquarters for selling and servicing AdWords and

A growing pharmaceutical services firm is opening a new office in Ann Arbor in mid-September, planning to hire at least 30 laid-off Pfizer workers as it seeks clients who launch start-ups.

While Google's rapidly growing Ann Arbor campus is a boon to the local economy and recent grads enjoy all the benefits endemic to Google, like copious free food, the reality of working in Google's Michigan offices involves the deadeningly repetitive, manu

Mary Sue Coleman beamed with pride as 40 out of more than 100 Ann Arbor-based Google employees told her what they majored in at the University.

More than $8 million in funding that state officials had pledged to retain laid-off Pfizer Inc. workers has fallen victim to the ongoing budget mess in Lansing.

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California-based Barracuda Networks will open an office in Ann Arbor after a successful recruiting effort by Ann Arbor Spark. They plan to employ a staff of eight, but will recruit more from the area.

Usually there's a lot of work in Ann Arbor, but, maybe because of Pfizer or maybe because of the overall economy, there's a lot of contractors looking to keep their best people working.

Ann Arbor SPARK, an economic development organization at the forefront of the community's Pfizer action teams, is working to help 29 groups of Pfizer employees start their own companies. It has applied for some of the $12 million in state money earmarked

Wayne State University and its TechTown research and technology park will host a networking event at the Ann Arbor offices of Pfizer Inc. on June 14.

The flip side of the Pfizer shutdown in Ann Arbor is a booming real estate market in Eastern Connecticut.

Missy Caulk writes on the impact of Pfizer leaving on Ann Arbor home prices - and how Pfizer's $100k guarantee is driving them down

"The top management in Pfizer research and development has said to me on a number of occasions: 'Our job here is to discover drugs, not to spin them off,'" Longman said.

Some local law firms are offering free company startup services to downsized Pfizerites, and I have decided to do this as well. Arborlaw will provide free incorporation or LLC formation for qualifying former employees of Pfizer who become entrepreneurs an

Wizzywig, a downtown Ann Arbor store specializing in Japanese pop-culture collectables is moving. They are relocating their store front to the industrial park by the Ann Arbor Airport where there warehouse is. (n.b. near the zingermans bakery? that's a

The 1,400 former ABN Amro Mortgage Group workers in Michigan, including 850 in Pittsfield Township, should find out the fate of their jobs and offices this week, according to a spokesman for the company's new parent, Citigroup Inc.

The Great Lakes State has lost jobs for six consecutive years, Michigan’s longest run of workplace shrinkages since the Great Depression.

realtors in a down market scared of zillow as a buyer's weapon for driving prices down further with tough questions.

Canter told a group at an Ypsilanti Chamber of Commerce event that Pfizer is projecting about half of Ann Arbor workers would be gone by September. The company expects to have about 500 people working at the Ann Arbor facility by the end of the year.

A. For the remainder of the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, a moratorium is imposed on the expenditure of funds in the form of grants to persons or entities.

George Fulton, a University of Michigan economist, discusses the Michigan economy in the wake of the Pfizer closing.

n an attempt to save more than 1,000 ABN Amro Mortgage Group jobs in Michigan, Gov. Jennifer Granholm has a telephone call arranged on Friday with an executive from Citigroup, the financial services company that bought the Ann Arbor area-based mortgage le

Granholm wants to offer free community college tuition for those pursuing high-demand occupations, such as skilled trades and nursing.

Schedule changes go into effect April 2 for three trains serving Ann Arbor, Amtrak announced.

I sent in my acceptance letter yesterday to corporate in California so it's official. After weeks of interviews, tests, writing samples, and background checks, they offered me the job. I will be starting work with them in early April in the bohemian, libe

Shally Madan wanted to work at Google so badly that she wore a Superman costume to her job interview at the company's new Ann Arbor office last Halloween. Waiting to grill her about a Cornell education and work at a California advertising agency was Grady

The survey, launched this week, is designed to determine what employment or career options people are exploring, what resources they need and how to best communicate with them. The survey results are anonymous and confidential and will help determine what

he interview with the recruiter at Google went well, and I passed the intitial screening. She told me that they were in the process of moving into the McKinley Building in downtown Ann Arbor that day.

Lycera Corporation plans to invest $676,000 to establish operations in Ann Arbor SPARK’s proposed wet-lab incubator. The pharmaceutical start-up spun out of the University of Michigan is expected to create 34 new jobs, including 28 directly by the compa

Like so many recent U-M graduates, Abbey Gavrila headed to Chicago. There she's found dozens of kindred spirits - Midwestern 20-somethings savoring that first job and freedom.

The company is recruiting for its new AdWords office in Ann Arbor, which has hired about 50 people since it opened in September. It hopes to reach 1,000 employees within five years.

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