Cheers! For a Holiday Hiatus
By: Capital Gains Staff, 12/19/2007
Happy Holidays from
Capital Gains! We'll be taking a short break from
publishing to celebrate the season, but we'll be back to unwrap a fresh
issue (full of new features and other goodies) on Wednesday, January 9th.
Thanks for reading, and we'll look forward to ringing in the new year
with you!
Capital Ideas: Chris Holman
By: Brad Garmon, 11/28/2007
Chris Holman has developed Lansing's new venture capital fund, giving area financiers a look at new and emerging technology companies, and a chance to “invest and be invested in their success.”
East/Lansing Mayors Shake Up the Urban Economic Development Game
By: Ivy Hughes, 11/28/2007
Their cities are neighbors of the closest kind, sharing bizarre conjoined boundaries and most of a name. But instead of throwing leaves over fences, the mayors of Lansing and East Lansing are focused on building on the power of the region's shared economic destiny.
Adding Little Lansing Comforts Yields Big City Rewards
By: Ivy Hughes and Brad Garmon, 11/14/2007
What's behind Lansing's recent urban revival? Part of the story might be a surprisingly simple slate of small public investments that are making our city more comfy, convivial and, it turns out, contagiously attractive to private investment.
Capital Ideas: Camron Gnass
By: Brad Garmon, 10/31/2007
Camron Gnass' business cards say "Mr. Strategy." Entrepreneur, designer and building renovator, he’s rethinking the city's visual identity and attracting great people along the way.
Capital Ideas: Gene Townsend
By: Brad Garmon, 10/17/2007
Creating a great urban living experience is as much art as science. Luckily, Lansing developer Gene Townsend knows a bit of both, easily charting a tricky course beween the design guidelines of Dutch architects and the insights of leading cultural critics. The results are some of the city's new neighborhood gems.
Spontaneous Musical Combustion in Eastside Lansing
By: Kevin Madness, 10/3/2007
With a lead singer who often tours with national acts like The Verve Pipe, and a completely spontaneous and localized approach to their live performances, The Dewaynes could be the city’s best kept secret. A look into the music scene, venues, and the interests of a band born from Lansing’s improvisational Eastside.
Remade Urban Spaces Are Hot New Lansing Addresses
By: Brad Garmon and Ericka Kahler, 10/2/2007
New and attractive residential opportunities are springing up all over Lansing as the city's innovative developers pump new life into impressive buildings. And residents are responding, moving in to chase the urban nirvana of green living, readily available morning coffee, and an easy after-work cocktail.
Lansing Tech Boom: Fueling the IT Fire
By: Brad Garmon, 9/19/2007
There's a strange smell in mid-Michigan, and it's a little reminiscent of something called "economic boom." The IT job market has been sneaking up on us for the last decade, but suddenly it's here, and the question now is: how ready are we? We're spinning off new jobs faster than we can fill them. It's been a long time since Mid-Michigan has dealt with that problem. Thankfully, someone's been paying attention.
Capital Ideas: Soji Adelaja
By: Brad Garmon, 9/19/2007
What is the New Economy and what does it look like in the Lansing area? We sat down with Dr. Soji Adelaja, one of the region's (and country's) most scholarly, intelligent and courageously out-of-the-box thinkers on strategic investments for economic transition. Tapping into research from forthcoming reports about what makes certain states and regions click in the New Economy, Dr. Adelaja suggests ways to keep teaching an old economy some new tricks.
Capital City Comeback
By: Brad Garmon, 9/5/2007
If you you haven't been to downtown Lansing this week, then you haven't been to downtown Lansing. Buildings are rising, investments are flowing, and the Capital City is joining the 21st century urban revival, where energy, entrepreneurship and entertainment are the calling cards of a new economy.
East Lansing Entrepreneur Goes Global with Web 2.0
By: Brad Garmon, 9/5/2007
Adam Van Lente is pushing his company headlong into the future by obsessing over sites like Google, Facebook and Mashable--his tickets to an eager world market. Find out what this young entrepreneur has in store as he tackles the future, Web 2.0 style.