Prosperity Planning 101: Charting E/Lansing's Metro Future
By: Staff,
7/23/2008
With the future of the U.S. economy on the line, Bruce Katz, from the DC-based Brookings Institution, is rallying the country's largest 100 metropolitan areas to action, and offering us a gut-check on how the Lansing/East Lansing metro stacks up in the new, global paradigm.
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Going Hollywood: Lansing Financiers Get Film-Friendly
By: Melinda Clynes and Brad Garmon,
6/25/2008
Thanks to new state incentives and a few ambitious Lansing entrepreneurs, a vacant parking lot in Downtown Lansing may soon be bustling with the action—and cash—of big-budget, Hollywood films.
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Upsides of a Down Housing Market
By: Brynn Howard,
6/18/2008
Home sales might be struggling in the wake of the mortgage and credit crunches, but if you’re in the market for a green remodel or a neighborhood makeover, things aren’t looking so bad in Lansing.
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Powering Mid-Michigan With Eco-Projects
By: Joshua Hagadorn,
5/7/2008
Boosted by business, government and personal commitments, recycling efforts in the Mid-Michigan region have more than doubled in the last 10 years, making the region a leader in going green.
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Franchising From B to T
By: Ivy Hughes,
4/8/2008
There’s nothing glamorous or chic about a coffee bean, one stuffed toy or a single moving van. But, if you’re creative and have the business savvy of three of Michigan’s most successful franchise owners, you can turn one bean into 150 coffee shops, one truck into 202 international moving locations, one toy into a national franchise or one dollar…into millions. (
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