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February 5, 2007 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Page 9 OTHER VOICES: How to rethink taxes and spending

We need fundamental reforms keep calling for large-scale consoli- services than Michigan. Signifi- states tax beer at five times Michi- in how Michigan both spends and dation of business operations. cant sums could be raised by taxing gan’s rate of 2 cents per bottle. Oth- collects our taxes. Such ideas could gain traction if more items while lowering the rate. ers raise significant cash through This isn’t some obscure argu- state aid were tied to proven effi- Business tax: Lower the rate sales taxes on soda pop. It’s hard to ment best left to academics and bu- ciencies. and broaden the base. Fewer than imagine producing businesses leav- reaucrats. It’s at the core of such Critically examine public-sector 500 Michigan businesses pay more ing Michigan because our taxes on living room issues as the rising pay and benefits. Michigan taxpay- than a third of the entire single- unhealthy beverages are too high. costs of college, the dependability business tax. More than 80,000 A paper containing full discus- ers are on the hook for $35 billion in of your local cops and firefighters, businesses pay no SBT. sion of these ideas is online at unfunded public-sector pension and the security of your job. Graduate the income tax. Michi- www.thecenterformichigan.net. What to do? We have a choice. and health care costs. Local govern- gan could raise the state tax rate We welcome questions, debate and We can keep staggering along, Phil Power John Bebow ment costs in Michigan are hun- for those with highest incomes. improvement of these concepts. patching the state budget year af- more than 550 public school dis- dreds of millions of dollars above They, in turn, would likely see lit- It’s our collective future. Let’s face ter year the way we patch pot- tricts, more than 200 charter those in states without binding ar- tle or no actual tax increase be- it through engaged citizenship. holes. Or we can truly transform schools, and 57 intermediate bitration in contract disputes. cause state taxes can be written off Phil Power is chairman, presi- the way our state works. A durable school districts. Despite coopera- Sales tax: Lower the rate and federal returns. Thirty-seven dent and director of The Center for solution requires finding common tive talk, much duplicated bureau- broaden the base. All but 11 states states do this now. Michigan in Ann Arbor. John Be- ground, far away from the normal cracy remains. School leaders impose sales taxes on more types of Consider beverage taxes. Some bow is the executive director. partisan, transactional Lansing politics. Here are eight thorny ideas to jump-start the discussion: Reduce prison spending. The

state spends $1.9 billion a year to © 2007 Southwest Airlines Co. warehouse some 125,000 prisoners, parolees and probationers. The state spends another $1.9 billion a year on community colleges and universities educating around 300,000 students. Which is the better investment? Michigan’s incar- ceration rate is 40 percent higher than in neighboring states. Keep better score. Michigan au- tomatically sends billions in sales taxes straight to school districts and local governments. Instead, we need a statewide scorecard to spur local efficiencies in budgets, staffing, pay and benefits. Money should follow concrete results. Erase borders. Michigan has 83 “SOUTHWEST KNOWS TRAVELING FOR counties, more than 1,200 town- WORK SHOULDN’T BE HARD WORK.” ships, nearly 500 cities and villages with fewer than 10,000 residents, PAT COOPER, Corporate Travel Manager & Information Leader LETTERS CONTINUED Hallmark Cards, Inc. ■ From Page 8 Second, I have had the opportunity to experience the results of several years of effective state- based strategic investment and economic development in Ohio. Ohio has an elaborate program of economic development that has stimulated big growth in materials and manufacturing processes. There is a tremendous amount of new business activity and support through grants, loans and other incentives driven by required “EVERY DAY we send employees all over the country to conduct business. And we know we collaboration between universi- can count on Southwest Airlines to help get them there affordably and without any hassles. ties and small business. As a result of this business activity, angel investor groups such as “For one thing, Southwest helps our people get where they need to go without always having the Ohio Tech Angels Fund and the to go through the major airports, so getting in and out of the airport is often easier. It’s also Akron ARCHangels have sprung so easy to book on Southwest through SWABIZ, the corporate site that Southwest designed up, stimulated by certain invest- for businesses. SWABIZ is one of the simplest booking tools in the industry and allows us to ment tax incentives to financially support many of these new compa- easily track our travel spending.” nies. There also are a few Michigan angel funds very active in Ohio in- Giving businesspeople like Pat plenty of reasons to say such nice things about us is how vestment. What does this mean we’ve become The Ofﬁcial Airline of Business. when investor groups are choosing to invest outside Michigan? My belief is that Ohio’s economic-development model and its at- tractiveness for investment will drive Ohio far ahead of Michigan in successful business creation and business retention within three years if Michigan continues its current economic-development model. We need to benchmark Ohio and not be embarrassed to copy the model or make it better. John Schirmer Canton Township DBpageAD.qxd 1/31/2007 3:05 PM Page 1 DETROIT BUSINESS MAIN 02-05-07 A 11 CDB 2/2/2007 10:17 AM Page 1

February 5, 2007 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Page 11

A CONVERSATION WITH Michigan No. 5 in patents State rankings of patents issued to U.S. residents for the 2006 federal fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30. 1. California ...... 23,579 2. Texas ...... 6,345 Robin 3. New York ...... 6,075 Asher, 4. Massachusetts ...... 4,089 Clark Hill P.L.C. innovations 5. Michigan ...... 3,913 Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Robin Asher is a patent attorney with Detroit-based Clark Hill plc. Crain’s reporter Tom Henderson spoke with Asher about new patent process rules expected to be enacted later this year and a much-anticipated U.S. Supreme Court verdict that From growing nerve tissue to sensing could define what makes an idea obvious. Pennsylvania-based Teleflex Inc. alleged that KSR International Co., chemicals, WSU researcher whose U.S. operations are based in Southfield, violated its patents when it started selling pedals to General Greg Auner has made some big breakthroughs. Now the push is on Motors in 2003 (See Page 1 of the July 10 issue of Crain’s). KSR responded that the idea was so obvious it didn’t deserve a patent. A to translate his inventions into products. lower court agreed with KSR, and the appeals court sided with Teleflex. Why does something seemingly as narrowly focused as brake pedals have national ramifications? The Supreme Court rarely takes patent cases. The fact that they did raised a lot of eyebrows. It could change the way we get patents. There are three tests for issuing patents — is it new or novel, is it useful and is it Dollars and nonobvious? The last is the most difficult test. This case is going to redefine the test for obviousness. BY TOM HENDERSON Everyone is sitting on pins and CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS needles. fficials at Wayne State Auner’s research has led to the What’s at stake other than who gets University and collabora- development of neural implants like the royalties on brakes? What other tors in private industry one above. industries could be affected? The drug O hope the time has come sensors industry, perhaps? European courts for Greg Auner to begin turning just denied a patent for AstraZeneca’s his trove of patents — 26 are issued Nexium, the little purple pill, saying it or pending — into a trove of com- WHIZ KID was just the mirror- image molecule in merce. Prilosec, whose patent has expired. Greg Auner (left) got an early How it affects the public and Auner, director of the Smart jump on his career. At age 8 companies outside of auto parts is Sensors and Integrated Microsys- he wired his parent’s how it can change the test for tems program in Wayne State’s basement one night when obviousness. If the Supreme Court college of engineering, has proven they were out, finishing the upholds the appeals court ruling, it adept at generating large research job by the time they got could make it much tougher to grants, too — more than $25 mil- home. “My dad freaked out challenge patents on the basis of lion in the past six years. But a . . . but to this day, it obviousness and will set a new decade-long trek toward commer- works,” says Auner. precedent. If it overturns the appeals cialization of his team’s research court ruling, it could make it easier to is just now beginning to bear fruit. At 9, he tried to build his challenge on the issue of The school’s technology transfer own laser in the science obviousness. This potentially could office, which funds the legal work club at school. The device affect anyone trying to protect their on Auner’s patents, want to start generated no light but a lot technology. licensing the patents to private of heat and exploded. “My companies and to take equity posi- theory was off,” said Auner, The U.S. Patent Office has proposed tions in what it hopes will be a se- who graduated from accelerating the patent application ries of companies the smart sen- Detroit’s Cody High School process by, among other things, sors program spawns. and got his bachelor’s, limiting the number of claims a patent master’s and Ph.D. in can make and by reducing the So far, one for-profit company has been started, Visca L.L.C., a ten- physics from Wayne State information filed at the time of University. disclosure. What are your thoughts? ant at the WSU-affiliated TechTown The purpose is to improve the quality incubator in Detroit. The universi- Michael Klein, surgeon-in- of the patent examination and to ty and Auner have equity stakes in chief at Children’s Hospital address their extreme backlog. It’s the company, which makes sensors of Michigan, calls Auner an hard to tell until you’ve practiced to monitor air and water quality. old-fashioned Gyro under the new rules, but all of us Auner is chief science officer. Gearloose, a comic-book have high hopes the changes will Delphi Technologies Inc., a sub- inventor of the 1950s. improve the quality of patents being sidiary of Delphi Corp. charged with One of the centerpieces of granted. That they’ll make sure trying to generate nonautomotive equipment in the Smart patents are granted on good revenue, hopes to commercialize Sensor labs is something applications, and that they’re not some of its parent company’s port- called a molecular beam granted where they shouldn’t be. At folio of more than 6,000 patents epitaxy machine. Auner the end of the day, I give them credit through Auner’s work. bought some off-the-shelf for trying. Two former Delphi researchers, components, had the Scott Chang and Jeff Kempisty, school’s machine shop If you know someone joined Auner’s team in January, af- make other parts to his interesting you would ter the closing of Delphi’s research design and assembled it for like Tom Henderson lab in Shelby Township. Kempisty $80,000, compared with to interview, call will also work part time for Visca, the $1 million it would have (313) 446-0337 or which got its first major funding in cost to buy one from a write thenderson January, two grants totaling more manufacturer. @crain.com. RICK BIELACZYC/WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — Tom Henderson See Sensors, Page 12 DETROIT BUSINESS MAIN 02-05-07 A 12,13 CDB 2/2/2007 10:50 AM Page 1

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FOCUS:INNOVATIONS Crain’s seeks successful CFOs Sensors: WSU hopes to turn research in Exceptional business people can who have displayed excellence in be recognized through several financial or other corporate ■ From Page 11 award programs offered by Crain’s operational management. than $1.3 million from the U.S. De- a spin-off, the first with Auner, Detroit Business. Following are the Nominees will be considered for partment of Defense. could be possible late this year. It criteria and deadlines for our the following categories: public GRANT MACHINE In 2001, Delphi Corp. donated would be DTI’s second spin-off this newest recognition program, the companies, private companies and more than $7 million in high-end year and the third overall. Greg Auner’s grant support is CFO Awards. nonprofits; as well as a laboratory equipment to Auner’s The first, SpaceForm Inc., has unprecedented for Wayne State CFOs have taken on new community service category University’s engineering college, that recognizes CFOs or team and assigned Chang and been at TechTown since last Sep- responsibilities as says his dean, Ralph Kummler. treasurers whose Kempisty there to collaborate on tember. Funded by more than $3 Sarbanes-Oxley has Current grants, some in leadership has led to research projects, both for Del- million in NASA grants, it focuses made transparency a phi’s auto business and its grow- on new welding technologies. conjunction with co-investigators, significant financial or include: corporate mandate and organizational improvement ing medical-device subsidiary. The second, in conjunction with finance chiefs have for a nonprofit. They and Auner now are work- Michigan State University, is Smart An- $8 million from the U.S. become core to strategic ing in collaboration with Delphi tenna Inc., which seeks to develop Department of Defense for sensors To nominate someone, go to that can detect biohazards in planning, but recognition has been Technologies on a possible for- better computer antennas for wire- crainsdetroit.com and click on water. slow to come. We want to give “Surveys and Forms” in the left- profit spin-off involving cheaper less communications and is expect- $2.8 million from the them their props. hand bar. Nominations must be and better lenses for infrared cam- ed to launch in the first quarter. National for sensors to Crain’s is seeking nominations for received by March 2. eras and sensing devices. Cus- Wayne State President Irvin Reid Institutes of Health detect airborne pathogens. its first-ever CFO Awards. Winners Presenting sponsor of the event is tomers would include the military, says he is one of Auner’s most ar- $2 million from the U.S. Defense will be recognized at a May 17 Marsh. Clark Hill plc, Interior and fire and police departments, dent supporters. When he wants Threat Reduction Agency for dinner and featured in the May 28 Dynamics, Financial Executives which could use infrared lenses to visitors to see the best WSU has to development of devices that issue. help see through smoke and fire. offer, he takes them on a tour of the International and the Michigan monitor and assess radiation Jayson Pankin, DTI’s new-ven- To be eligible, nominees must be Association of CPAs are also SSIM labs in the exposure. CFOs, or hold an equivalent job, sponsoring the event. ture creation specialist, said such Engineering “He’s brought in between $25 Building, he million and $30 million in grants said. Reid sees a since 2001,” Kummler said. collaboration of academic, pri- Recent grants include two from NASA totaling $2.8 million, a $2.6 vate and govern- million grant from the Michigan Life ment sectors as Sciences Corridor and four from the crucial for re- National Science Foundation Safeguarding Your search and job totaling $4.7 million. creation, and he Reid — Tom Henderson says no one on Competitive Advantage campus synthesizes that intersec- crystalline lattices or expounding tion better than Auner, who has on wide-band-gap semiconductors. worked with the Kresge Eye Institute, More typical is the “Voila! I was Ford Motor Co. Karmanos Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Delphi, , the startled by this,” that accompanied Cancer Institute, Fraunhofer USA, Boe- a magnified photo of a string of ing, the Department of Defense, Chil- neural tissue grown in the lab. dren’s Hospital of Michigan and Beau- Whether products materialize mont Hospitals (See box , Page 13). “I’ve taken more politicians to and profits and patent licenses fol- Greg’s laboratory than to any oth- low, his conviction is that his IP Litigation er professor at Wayne State. I want group’s work is changing the world, them to see that Detroit is not just one crystalline device at a time. about autos,” said Reid, who ap- Auner is a focus of WSU re- China IP proved a major expansion of the search. He is also a focus of the con- Engineering Building this spring, flict at research universities Anti-Counterfeiting which will take the smart sensors between tradition and entrepre- research and lab space from 9,600 neurship. There are those at the square feet to 23,400 square feet. technology management office at Patents Auner, who is 43 and could pass WSU who want to see a faster pace for one of his own doctoral stu- of for-profit spin-offs, job creation dents, has patents issued or pend- and revenue. And there is a dean Trademarks ing that range from devices to stim- worried such pressures could cause ulate the growth of neurological him to lose his best fundraiser. Copyrights tissue, to hydrogen sensors that op- “Greg is really erate in temperatures of more than doing a lot. He 600 degrees, to retinal implants to takes on a lot of Electronic Discovery improve vision, to acoustic-wave things. That’s sensors to detect breast cancer. good and bad,” He said one of his latest break- Licensing said Fred Rein- throughs involves growing con- hart, assistant trolled growth of neural tissue. vice president Trade Secrets “We found, to our surprise, we for research at can selectively grow neurons WSU’s technolo- where we want them. We can build gy transfer of- them in long pathways,” he said. Reinhart fice. “The risk is, The application? To bypass he’s spread too thin. ... It’s like a kid breaks in the spinal cord caused by going into a candy store and decid- injuries. So far, the work has been ing what to eat. funded by his smart sensors pro- “He’s got his company going, gram, but a grant application of $2.4 which we’re really happy about. million was made to the National In- And he’s hired some people. It’s stitutes of Health and two totaling funded by grants, which is fine, but $450,000 were made to the New Jer- we’d really like to see it funded by sey-based Christopher Reeve Founda- investors’ money. That tells you tion and the New York City-based people think there’s something Contact: J. Michael Huget • 734 213 3628 • [email protected] Dana Foundation. there near-term. Listening to Auner talk about his “We’ve invested heavily on his research is like listening to a kid patents. We’ve spent more on his talk about his presents on Christ- patents than on any other re- mas. His attention darts from pro- searchers here, and we have not li- ject to project in a seamless flow of censed any of it. We would have Detroit Bloomﬁeld Hills Ann Arbor Lansing Holland Boca Raton Washington D.C. what’s been accomplished, what’s thought we’d have licensed some of to be done and who’s to benefit. it and had products in the pipeline. Alliance Ofﬁces Shanghai Beijing Member Lex Mundi 313 225 7000 www.butzel.com His words convey excitement, Greg knows that has to happen, and but not in the language you’d expect he’s trying to make it happen.” from a physicist describing aligned But Ralph Kummler, the engi- DETROIT BUSINESS MAIN 02-05-07 A 12,13 CDB 2/2/2007 10:50 AM Page 2

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FOCUS:INNOVATIONS hintoproducts MEDICAL MIRACLES Your patents, trademarks AND FLYING PIGS Michael Klein, surgeon-in-chief at and trade secrets may neering dean, said the worst thing Children’s Hospital of Michigan, that could happen to the engineer- has worked with Greg Auner since represent your most ing department is for Auner to do 2000. Currently, they are developing sensors that might one what many entrepreneurial-mind- valuable assets. day be embedded in surgical tools ed professors have done: take a to pinpoint cancer tissue during leave of absence, or quit, to join his operations. A doctor could, Klein Find out why protecting them is company full-time. said, know which part of a “At the university, our primary diseased liver more important than ever. mission is education and research. to remove Yes, we know the governor precisely, (Granholm) wants us to spin off re- leaving healthy search and create jobs and we un- tissue behind. derstand that ... but education still “Greg is a drives what we do,” Kummler said. brilliant guy who has great ideas “Greg has his toe in the water. Peo- and superb ple want him to put his whole foot leadership in. But do you want to cross that qualities,” said line where your premier faculty- Klein Klein. “He can Turning Intellectual Property Into Intellectual Capital ® member leaves and jumps over to relate his vision to others to get the commercial them excited about working on it.” sector? You’d Charles Shanley, chairman of the lose a produc- department of surgery of Royal Oak- IP legal counsel … tive researcher based Beaumont Hospitals, is also Patents • Trademarks • Litigation • Copyrights • U.S. and Foreign and you’d lose working with Auner on minimally the development invasive cancer diagnosis using Portfolio Management • Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition Raman spectroscopy, which directs of new students light into tissue and determines if it he funds.” is cancerous by how it is scattered. … in a wide range of He said there They are also working on sensor innovations and technologies are good reasons devices that would let physicians Kummler commercializa- conduct robotic surgery from a Life Sciences/Biotech • Alternative Energy • IT/E-Commerce remote location. “Greg is in the top tion has been Mechanical • Electrical/Electronics • Materials and Chemicals slower than Reid, Auner and the tenth of the top 1 percent of school’s technology management scientists in the country and the office might have liked. world when it comes to both Contact: [email protected] breakthrough capabilities and First, smart sensors are complex. putting together a team,” said John www.raderfishman.com • 248-594-0600 The group’s work focuses on some- Rather, a former NASA scientist who Bloomfield Hills, MI • Washington, D.C. • Salt Lake City, UT • Tokyo thing called MEMS, or micro- collaborated with Auner on sensors electromechanical systems, which for breast-cancer detection from combine the silicon-based crys- 2001-2005 when he was director of talline technology behind integrat- innovation and development at ed circuits with nearly invisible Karmanos Cancer Institute. mechanical features such as gears, Greg Hudas is one of Visca L.L.C.’s levers and microchannels to create collaborators at the U.S. Army’s speck-sized devices. Tank Automotive Research De- Making the devices involves mil- velopment Engineering Command at the Tank Center in Warren. They lions of dollars of exotic equipment are working on microscopic sensors and clean rooms. And packaging to be mounted on robots to sniff out such tiny devices so they can oper- explosives and chemicals. ate in such hard environments as Supported by a two-year, $600,000 auto or airplane engines, under grant that began in January, Hudas water or in the hot and cold of out- expects to have prototype sensors er space is a tougher challenge. ready to go into production in as soon as 18 months. Second, after the terrorist at- Detroit AU POIVRE tacks of Sept. 11, licensing agree- “What’s interesting is he’s doing all this at Wayne State,” Hudas sad. ments and venture capital needed “We usually see this at the to support start-ups dried up. University of Michigan or MIT or Cal Third, there was Auner’s day Tech. It’s interesting to see what job: teaching, serving as a faculty he’s doing here.” advisor to more than a dozen doc- Janet Jensen, a mathematician and toral students and doing the grant- research scientist with the U.S. driven research that pays the bills. Army’s Edgewood Chemical and Auner agrees, though, that the Biological Center in Maryland, is time for commercialization has developing with Auner early-warning come. “There should be a transla- chemical and biological sensors. tion to society of our research, and She is co-chairwoman of the that’s through industry,” he says. technical committee and Auner is co- “There’s been a lack of a transla- chairman of the steering committee for the first Nanoelectronic Devices tional component. You have a good for Defense and Security Conference idea, but how do you get it off into in Washington in June. “Nano” refers companies? We’re doing that, to nanotechnology, the science of now” he says. “At Visca, we’re the very small. “Dr. Auner is an way, way ahead of schedule. We’re incredibly diverse and multi- a year ahead.” disciplined researcher. He can take Before there are sensors avail- what he knows in electrical Detroit with Pepper: It’s a combination that’s been good for both. As a national law firm able commercially, Visca will pro- engineering and apply it to biology. He’s not bound by his discipline, and whose reputation for results goes back more than a century, Pepper brings seasoned vide a source of revenue for WSU, he’s not bound by what others say firepower in corporate, litigation, real estate, private equity, bankruptcy and environmental he says, through its Department of he can or can’t do,” Jensen said. matters to clients in a full range of industries. Learn more about what Pepper can do for you Defense funding. He will pay the “Has he ever shown you the flying by visiting our Web site. school for research time Visca em- pig in his office? He wanted to use ployees spend in the WSU clean some crystal combination for semi- rooms, and for help needed by oth- conductors, and someone at the er WSU researchers. Army Research Office told him, “Delphi’s funding, which has ‘When pigs fly is when you’ll be able to do that.’ ended, was $200,000 a year. Visca “He got the crystal combination to will make up for that this year and work, and now he’s got a flying www.pepperlaw.com more,” he said. pig,” she said. Tom Henderson: (313) 446-0337, — Tom Henderson [email protected] DETROIT BUSINESS MAIN 02-05-07 A 14 CDB 2/2/2007 11:53 AM Page 1

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FOCUS:INNOVATIONS Savvy businesses add to intellectual-property work

BY ROBERT ANKENY and continues to create manufacturer-supplier disputes. South San Francisco-based Genentech royalties from sales of CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS “When an OEM is in conflict with a supplier, often technol- its drug Syangis, a popular respiratory drug for children, ogy is at the heart of the dispute,” he said. while claiming their drug didn’t infringe on Genentech’s Intellectual-property law in Detroit and across the coun- Changes in the aftermarket auto parts industry, certifica- patent, scheduled to expire in 2018. try continues to be a growth industry as business and industry puts more emphasis on protecting the fruits of its brain tion and tracking systems, and pressures on suppliers to re- Now, MedImmune’s patent challenge lawsuit goes back to power. spect original equipment manufacturer design patents have the federal courts in California. The actual number of patent lawsuits has declined recent- surfaced many disputes, Lisi said. The decision could also have the affect of restricting law- ly, but intellectual law practice — which includes patents, Although most litigation is filed on older patents as the suits filed by so-called “patent trolls,” said Lisi. trademarks and copyrights, and contracts or litigation market catches up with inventions, the numbers also reflect Trolls, often investors or law firms that own a portfolio of about them — is growing. shifting emphasis on how intellectual patents, rather than manufacturers, invite companies using Lori Burke, an IP lawyer in the Ann Arbor office of Butzel properties are being protected. processes supposedly covered by their patents to take a li- Long, said that litigation numbers don’t tell the whole story . “The law develops slowly and tends to cense, and then enforce the demand by threatening or filing “In the last few years, growth has been be at least a little behind all the time,” lawsuits. pretty steady, as companies have gotten a Burke said. The term “trolls,” he said, comes from the fairy tales lot more savvy about getting protection Passage of the Digital Millennium Copy- about the troll who stands under a bridge and collects a toll. for their products and processes before Such lawsuits are already on the decline, Lisi said. they get ripped off,” she said. right Act in 1998 made some progress. The Biotech and pharmaceutical developments will continue As technology develops ever more rapid- comprehensive reform of U.S. copyright ly, Burke said, there will be more evolu- law made it a crime to produce and distrib- to expand the IP field, Lisi said. But coming up fast is the ute technology intended to circumvent gambling field, with both online and bricks-and-mortar casi- tion in copyright law. Lisi From 2004 to 2005, there was an 11.5 per- copyright protections, and stiffened the nos using lots of evolving technology, he said. cent drop in patent-infringement lawsuits penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet. Robert Ankeny: (313) 446-0404, [email protected] Burke filed in U.S. District Courts, ending a 10- But there is more work to be done. Online gambling Web year run of increases. sites, among others, present a particular challenge to But in the same period, overall intellectual-property law- lawyers, who often must interpret local and federal law varia- tions for their clients, said Lisi. suits filed rose by more than 33 percent. This in a period A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on the patent front IP LAW DIRECTORY ONLINE where all civil lawsuits filed declined by 10 percent. could give more companies more tools to address patent dis- Looking for an intellectual- At the same time, patents allowed by the U.S. Patent Of- putes. property attorney? Crain’s fice declined by 13 percent alongside a 7 percent increase in The court’s Jan. 9 decision in MedImmune v. Genentech online directory of law offices applications. with IP practices and specialty gives companies the right to challenge a patent in court firms includes 28 firms with Michael Lisi, a partner at Honigman Miller Schwartz and while paying a licensing fee for its use, allowing them to more than 320 IP lawyers. It’s Cohn L.L.P., said the amount of auto-oriented research and avoid risking the loss of a costly infringement case. at crainsdetroit.com/iplaw. development in Southeast Michigan has continued to grow In that case, Gaithersburg, Md.-based MedImmune paid

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Page 16 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS February 5, 2007 PEOPLE ARCHITECTURE INFO/TECHNOLOGY from vice presidents. SERVICES Charles Auvenshine to project manag- IN THE SPOTLIGHT Jordan Broad to executive vice presi- Ellis Veech to executive vice president Mathew Mulholland to franchise de- er, Giffels, Southfield, from project dent, delivery, ePrize L.L.C., Pleasant of media services, Riegner & Associ- velopment manager, Molly Maid, Ser- manager, Mandell, Bilovous, Lender- Valassis Communications Inc. Ridge, from senior vice president, ac- ates Inc., Southfield, from vice presi- vice Brands International, Ann Ar- man, Troy, and Mary Demars to con- (NYSE: VCI), a Livonia-based count services. Also, Phil Jacokes to dent of media. bor, from regional service manager, troller-U.S. operations from director coupon-maker, has named Michael senior vice president, product devel- Amy Benner to project director, Intel- Mr. Handyman. of finance, Gunn Levine, Detroit. Kowalczyk to opment, from senior vice president, litrends L.L.C., Clarkston, from project the newly project management. manager. STEEL CONSTRUCTION created Jim Fracassa to COO, Midwest Video, Roger Lidgren to director of advanced Marty Lewis to position of LAW Troy, from production manager, high-strength steel, Horizon Steel Co., Eclipse Creative, Detroit. production man- senior vice Damali Sahu to Shelby Township, from manager, ager, Rochman president and partner, Bodman Gene Brady to president, Digital 10 technical customer service North Network Inc., Ann Arbor, from presi- Design-Build, Ann general L.L.P., Detroit, America, advanced high-strength Arbor, from pro- dent, Brio Advancing, Novi. steel, Swedish Steel AB, Pittsburgh. manager of from associate, ject manager, JC Sheppard, Mullin, Randall Tallerico to vice president, Beal, Ann Arbor. Valassis In- Richter & Hamp- global account management, Urban TRANSPORTATION Store Science, Detroit, from director of ad- ton L.L.P., Los Jeffrey Grandstaff to general manager, Marketing. He vertising sales and promotion for FINANCE Angeles. Insight Network Transportation, Kowalczyk Buick, General Motors Corp., Detroit. Steven Hartzler to had been vice Auburn Hills, from director of net- field marketing president of marketing. MARKETING Jacqueline Robin- work management, Insight Network son to director of Lewis and underwriting “A strategic and creative thinker, Chad Amo to se- Logistics, Auburn Hills. manager, operations, Berg Mike is the ideal person to lead this nior account exec- Sahu Muirhead and As- Amerisure Mutual Insurance Co., utive, Buick ac- key company initiative as we focus sociates, Detroit, Farmington Hills, from platinum mar- count, McCann Erickson, Troy, from on delivering value to consumers from senior ac- PEOPLE GUIDELINES keting underwriter. account executive. Also, Michael Don- how, when and where they want,” count manager. Ryan Bowers to nay to senior account executive, Hon- Announcements are limited to said Alan Schultz, Valassis marketing man- eywell and General Motors corporate management positions. Nonprofit ager, McGraw chairman, president and CEO. assignments, from account executive. NONPROFITS and industry group board Wentworth, Troy, Kowalczyk, 40, will be responsible Diane Kochis to appointments can be found at from direct mar- for developing strategic in-store chief develop- www.crainsdetroit.com. Send keting manager, partners, looking at future in-store ment officer, Vista Robinson submissions for People to Joanne Talk America strategic selling partnerships and Maria, Dearborn Scharich, Crain’s Detroit Business, Inc., Southfield. new in-store product development. Heights, from manager of major gifts, 1155 Gratiot Ave., Detroit, MI St. Joseph Mercy Hospital-Oakland, 48207-2997, or send e-mail to “Our commitment to providing HEALTH CARE Pontiac. [email protected]. Releases customers with intelligent marketing Debra Williams to Mary Grace McCarter to executive direc- must contain the person’s name, solutions does not end in the Bowers corporate director, Rainbow Connection, Rochester, new title, company, city in which tor of worklife home,” Kowalczyk said. “Valassis from consultant, Oakland Township. the person will work, former title, strategies, St. John Health, Warren, has innovative plans to help change former company (if not promoted from chief human resources officer, the face of in-store offerings.” RETAIL from within) and former city in Detroit Public Schools, Detroit. Hegarty Skeltis Robbie Stark to general manager, The which the person worked. Photos Westin Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Sharon Hegarty and Kim Skeltis to co- Mall at Partridge Creek, Bloomfield are welcome, but we cannot HOSPITALITY Romulus, from banquet manager, managing directors and senior vice Hills, from assistant general manager, guarantee they will be used. Hussam Diab to director of banquets, Westin Chicago River North, Chicago. presidents, Strat@comm L.L.C., Troy, Twelve Oaks Mall, Novi.

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February 5, 2007 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Page 17 BRIEFLY Jones Lang LaSalle hires lightweight sound-proofing fiber month on the deal, will store the Wal-Mart, including GlaxoSmith- A $1,000 award for best new that is installed underneath auto- fuels at its terminal facilities near Kline, Spectra Marketing and Triad business idea went to KAK Enterpris- 3 from Trammell Crow motive carpets to both domestic Detroit Metro Airport, RKA Vice Digital Media. es of Farmington Hills, for its plan The Detroit office of Jones Lang and foreign automakers. President Keith Albertie said. Separately, Mars announced on to package GPS-based information LaSalle has hired former Trammell The company has been called SemGroup is a wholesale com- Jan 19 that it is handling the mar- about cities or regions for passen- Crow Co. commercial real estate Janesville-Sackner Group since an mercial fuel supplier, but was not in keting and advertising for Ace gers traveling by car. The runner- brokers Ron Gantner, A.J. Weiner acquisition in 2001, but changed its the Detroit market until now. It sells Hardware Corp.’s Dream Ace promo- up award of $500 went to Ann Ar- and Erica Holton. name to Janesville Acoustics con- unbranded fuels to distributors. tion, which offers entrants a bor-based mVUZ, an online service Gantner was appointed senior current with the move. — Bill Shea chance to win their own Ace store. to link local bands and musicians vice president and Weiner and — Brent Snavely — Bill Shea with possible clients and cus- Holton vice presidents for Jones Auburn Hills building sold tomers. Lang LaSalle. St. John raises $24.2M Competition makes — Tom Henderson — Jennette Smith An Auburn Hills building with St. John Hospital and Medical Cen- an Energy Conversion Devices Inc. business-plan awards ter said it has raised $24.2 million subsidiary, United Solar Ovonic,as GlobalAutoIndustry, Chinese OtoMedicine Inc., an Ann Arbor- Janesville Acoustics moves HQ of its $30 million campaign goal. the tenant was sold late last month based spin-off from the University of supplier launch Web site The hospital launched the quiet in an estimated $22 million deal. to Southfield from Ohio Michigan, won $5,000 as winner of phase of the campaign one year The 172,000-square-foot building Troy-based GlobalAutoIndustry. the Phase I business-plan award Norwalk, Ohio-based automo- ago and hopes to complete the was sold by Southfield-based Gen- com and Chery Automotive Co.’s Jan 18 by judges for the Great Lakes tive supplier Janesville Acoustics fundraising drive by 2008. eral Development Co. to Pegasus global sourcing division, Shanghai Entreprenuers Quest, a statewide moved its headquarters to South- It will fund renovation and ex- Group Inc. of Walnut Creek, Calif. Kowin Automotive Components Co. business-support group. field on Jan. 1. pansion of the Detroit hospital and The building is within the Auburn Ltd., have launched a Web site to The awards were in conjunction While the immediate job gain include a six-floor patient tower Hills Commerce Park near the bridge the gap between parts sup- for Michigan is only about six ex- with the seventh-annual Collabo- with 144 private rooms, an upgrad- Palace of Auburn Hills. pliers in China and buyers in the ecutives, the Southfield office ed and consolidated cardiovascu- ration for Entrepreneurship event — Jennette Smith international automotive market. could grow to about 30 by year- lar institute and an emergency de- at Washtenaw Community College. The site also aims to offer news end, President Dave Cataldi said. partment expansion. OtoMedicine makes a product, and industry trend data, online Janesville, which now resides at — Sherri Begin Mars Advertising buys Arkansas Auraquell, which purports to min- 25330 Telegraph Road in the building for Wal-Mart work imize noise-induced hearing loss. meeting hosting and networking Raleigh Office Center, is a supplier Winning $2,500 as runner-up was information for people in the auto of automotive thermal and RKA signs fuel contract Southfield-based Mars Advertis- Canton Township-based B.A. Maze industry. acoustical products with 1,400 em- Romulus-based RKA Petroleum ing Co. Inc. has bought an 18,000- Inc., which designs and sells de- Founded in 1996, GlobalAuto ployees worldwide. Cos. on Jan. 25 signed a fuel-supply square-foot office building for $1.8 vices to help get caps off medicine Industry.com is owned by Troy- Cataldi said the company had agreement with Greenwood Vil- million in Bentonville, Ark. bottles and to more easily remove based HCI Group Ltd. Wuhu, China- 2006 sales of about $165 million lage, Colo.-based SemGroup L.P. for Thirty-five employees will use bottle caps. based Chery Automotive was and expects to exceed $190 million about 1 million gallons of diesel 8,000 square feet of the building to Phase I awards were for five- founded in 1997 and has recently this year. and gasoline a month for the next handle local clients, which include page business summaries. Phase II partnered with DaimlerChrysler AG Cataldi said Janesville sells two years. Bentonville-based Wal-Mart. The awards, for full business plans, to assemble vehicles for sale in products such as sound-blocking Privately held RKA, which rest of the space has been sub- will be announced in May, with a North America and other markets. insulation behind dashboards and stands to take in about $2 million a leased to firms that also work with first-place award of $5,000. — Bowdeya Tweh

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business Gift helps children, Beaumont, Page 23. Mark Hoppe CEO LaSalle Bank Midwest N.A.

In addition to running Troy-based LaSalle Bank Mid- west, Mark Hoppe, 52, is vice president of its sister bank in Chicago, LaSalle Bank, and vice chairman of LaSalle Na- Career missions tional Leasing Corp. He serves on the boards of Detroit Renaissance Inc., De- troit Institute of Arts, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit and the Professionals find new Michigan Colleges Foundation. Hoppe finds himself reading constantly. “I do an incredible amount callings, fulfillment of reading. I have stacks of credit reports every day. The credit side of my job is very reading intensive. But I do oc- in nonprofit sector casionally read a book. I used to be able to say I’ve read all (John) Grisham’s books, but now I’ve missed one or two. BY MARTI BENEDETTI “I read the Wall Street Jour- SPECIAL TO CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS nal every day. I read the Free Press and the Chicago Tribune ameron Hosner is passionate about online every day. I read working for nonprofits. Crain’s Detroit Business and “I’ve turned down for-profit jobs Crain’s Chicago Business C reli- giously every week.” that pay more money,” said Hosner, who for nine years has been CEO and president of Other things he’s reading: Dearborn Heights-based Vista Maria, a non- Ⅲ “I’m reading (former profit for abused and neglected girls that has UCLA basketball coach) John a full-service campus with secure dorms, a Wood- school, a cafeteria and a health care facility. en’s My “The years I’ve worked at Vista Maria Personal have been the most difficult I’ve had, the Best. A most challenging, but client In 2005, of also the most reward- sent it to ing,” he added. me. I’m a all the new Hosner’s sentiments big ad- mirer of jobs created are common among his. I’m those who left the cor- about in Michigan, porate environment for halfway through it. I’ve got a the world of nonprofits. lot of respect for him, and it’s 62 percent But, he and others said, a very neat book. He’s the fa- be prepared to work DON KUREK ther and grandfather of col- were in the longer hours with less sources.” lege basketball all in one.” nonprofit resources. He said Vista Maria has an information- “I knew I could Other forms of media: Before joining Vista technology department of one compared to the have a big impact, “I don’t watch a lot of TV. sector. Maria in 1998, he spent seven Arcadia had. He learned that nonprofits On the weekend, my wife and several years helping focus on “return of charitable impact” rather I try to take in a movie.” but I did not know than the return on investment and sharehold- When Hoppe’s not reading, develop a group of home health companies the work would be he’s running. into Southfield-based Arcadia Services Inc., a er wealth. “I ran the LaSalle Bank temporary staffing and home health care “You will need to learn a new set of skills so challenging,” Marathon in Chicago the company with annual sales of $18 million at and acumen and knowledge base,” Hosner first time we sponsored it, in the time. He said he was looking for another said. “Nonprofits are close cousins to what said Ollette Boyd 1994. Whatever thoughts I position in the health care industry when a you knew in the business world, but not the had at the finish [in 3 hours, search firm contacted him about the Vista same. You have to be able to do more with less (above left) with 51 minutes] were garbled. I’m Maria post. and be patient.” told my face was an interest- Tyrone Davenport Tyrone Davenport, COO of the Charles H. ing shade of gray. One “Vista Maria was at a turning point. It thought I know I had was, needed to reposition itself. But I hadn’t fully Wright Museum of African American History, and at the Charles H. ‘Thank God I’ve done this, grasped what I had to do. It’s the amount of Ollette Boyd, CFO at the museum, know and I’ll never do it again!’ I time on the board and on fundraising along what Hosner is talking about. They came Wright Museum of don’t know how many of my with all the other parts of the job,” Hosner from the private sector to the museum with- African American promises I’ve kept over the said. “It was an eye-opener. I used to have a in a couple years of each other. years, but I’ve kept that one.” cadre of support staff. Now we first raise the — Tom Henderson History. money and then we can afford the re- See Nonprofits, Page 21 DETROIT BUSINESS MAIN 02-05-07 A 22,23 CDB 2/2/2007 9:43 AM Page 1

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BUSINESS LIVES Nonprofits: Work harder, longer ■ From Page 21 Davenport retired from Bank in Southfield, said nonprofit ca- 40s, had a series of managerial jobs One, now Chase, in June 2001, when reers require a certain tempera- and worked in video production he was on the board of the muse- ment. “The organizations are mis- for General Motors dealerships. In um. He had been senior vice presi- sion-driven versus profit-making. 2005, she decided she wanted to dent of technology and risk man- It changes the whole dynamic of change to a nonprofit. agement. Meanwhile, the museum the culture,” he said. “I was making great money, but was experiencing operational “The No. 1 thing people find as I was an unhappy person and problems that he thought he could they explore careers in the non- wanted to do something that made help solve as a consultant. Eight profit sector is it is more meaning- a contribution,” she said. months after retiring, in January ful work,” Lindman said. “They She was unemployed almost two 2003, he took the COO position. feel better about getting up and go- years before landing as director of “It wasn’t a hard decision. As a ing to work each day.” development at the beginning of board member and consultant, I LTU’s Center for Nonprofit this year at the Matrix Theatre Co. in knew the issues,” Davenport said. Management offers classes and southwest Detroit. “The biggest adjustment was the support to people The theater is difference in resources — technol- who want to advance working on a ogy, staff and hours. The job was or pursue a career production more time-consuming, and with with nonprofits. It of- called “Jesus in less resources, it requires more fers graduate degrees the Hood,” writ- creativity.” or certification op- ten by young Boyd, director of circulation ad- portunities in non- adults who lived ministration for Detroit Newspapers profit management in the neighbor- MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR for seven years, left to be home and connects people hood. with her children. After 18 with opportunities “I really liked THAT BOAT. Cobo Center, Feb.10-18 Detroit months, she started looking for a for service and ca- its mission state- job, and the museum called. She reers. ment that said it See What’s New! took the job in 2001, thinking it “I’m amazed with wanted to trans- would not be as demanding as her the level of experi- form and build Visit former career. ence these people the communi- www.detroitboatshow.net “I knew I could have a big im- have. They have had ty,” said Barnes, or call 800-224-3008 pact, but I did not know the work big careers,” Lind- who is working would be so challenging,” she said. man said. on development, “I’m happy in this environ- He added that the marketing and ment,” Boyd says. “The rewards nonprofit sector is REBECCA COOK communica- WE ARE PROFESSIONAL GRADE are so much different, like getting growing fast in Cameron Hosner, CEO of Vista tions. “So far, I (positive) comments from visitors. Michigan. In 2005, of Maria, has turned down for-profit love it.” Those rewards are much better.” all the new jobs cre- jobs that paid more money. Southfield- But nonprofit work is not for ated in Michigan, 62 based Right Man- everyone. Jerry Lindman, senior percent were in the nonprofit sec- agement Consultants, a consulting lecturer and director of the 3-year- tor, which includes health care company that helps people manage old Center for Nonprofit Management and education. “These are real ca- career change, sometimes has at Lawrence Technological University reer opportunities with salaries clients take Lindman’s classes. and benefits,” he said. “Whether our clients want to Stan Stimek, 49, is ready to try shift from profit to nonprofit, we one of those careers. Formerly a work to help create a marketing sales manager for Business Wire, he strategy,” said John Patricolo, lost his job last October during a Right Management Consultants reorganization. He had been doing Great Lakes region executive vice some fundraising as a member of president. “Our role is to help peo- the Wayne State University Alumni As- ple think outside the box.” sociation, and he felt he would en- Patricolo said the people going joy such work as a career. into nonprofits are a small group. He took a weeklong seminar at “People who tend to move that way Indiana University to work toward have come out of the nonprofit certification in fundraising, which world or they are older and want to NO WAIT. he plans to get this month. He give back. Historically, the (salary) wants to take part in the LTU pro- dollars are less in nonprofits, so CALL AHEAD SERVICE. gram next. those interested have some money Anita Joyce Barnes, in her mid- coming in from a prior job,” he said. 800-96-GIANT Sanibel Captiva Islands - Florida Golf! Tennis! Boating! NO ONE LIKES WAITING IN LINE. NOW YOU DON’T HAVE TO. 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The restaurant news in Southeast Michi- ment, but a note on the restaurant’s locked Spectacular In-Town Exquisite Oakland gan over the past several weeks has been door says: “Due to factors beyond Oslo’s con- Birmingham Residence Township Tudor both troubling and encouraging as a number trol, tonight’s party has been canceled. Thank of notable restaurants have closed while sev- you for your understanding.” eral new restaurants have arrived. The Blend was a chain of five gourmet Restaurants that recently closed include: coffee shops. The Blend’s Washington Boule- Chuck’s on the Boulevard, Auburn Hills; Big vard location was closed during several day- Buck Brewery & Steakhouse, Auburn Hills; time visits in January and the location in Oslo, Detroit; Currents, Detroit; and The Blend Compuware’s headquarters is closed as well. Designed by Alexander Bogaerts and masterfully crafted Built in 2001, this astonishing 5,000+ square-foot Coffee & Smoothie Co., Detroit. At least four messages left at a residential by Policicchio Building Corporation, this new construc- Tringali-designed Tudor revival is beautifully situated on Newcomers include: Crush, Southfield; Pi, number believed to be that of The Blend’s tion ranch home offers 6400sf of truly luxurious living. 2.33 acres. From the mahogany-paneled family room to Mesquite Creek RESTAURANTS State-of-the-art technology, unparalleled design ele- the cast stone balustrade, every detail has been expertly Southfield; , Southfield; and owner were not returned. ments and absolutely exquisite appointments. Offering a crafted and customized. Magnificent Meadowbrook Brent Snavely Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, Livonia. Janet’s Java, owned by Janet Kappaz, rare 1st Floor Master Suite; soaring 16' ceilings; gated influences; grand foyer entrance; extraordinary Master opened last week in The Blend’s former Compuware drive; massive finished lower level; natural gas generator; Suite; phenomenal 2,400sf finished lower-level with full location. Kappaz previously owned and operated a limestone balustrade terrace and so very, very much kitchen and media room; incomparable luxury living at Recent closings more. The epitome of extraordinary excellence! every turn. An exceptional residence of rare beauty! coffee shop in Shelby Township but closed to open Currents, at 673 Franklin St., closed in early De- this new location. $1,650,000 $1,375,000 cember but is scheduled to reopen March 1 as an Irish pub called McNarney’s Public House. Kevin Cristbrook “We’re going to have a great menu. The main thing New restaurants 1.248.417.7682 www.kevincristbrook.com we want to do is cater to the happy-hour crowds,” said Mesquite Creek in Clarkston reopened Jan. 26 af- Tony Colasanti, financial manager for Macomb Town- ter spending four weeks on renovations. The assets of ship-based Colasanti Corp., which is the building owner. Mesquite Creek were purchased last year by Joe Vic- Riverside Place Currents opened last January after the restaurants’ ari, CEO of Warren-based Andiamo Restaurant Group. owners and Colasanti spent $1.8 million to renovate Mesquite Creek now offers an enhanced menu, a re- Birmingham the building. He said the lease was terminated be- modeled bar and entertainment Wednesday through cause they stopped paying rent. Saturday. The restaurant now also offers carry out. Colasanti and Dale Wieczorek, president and CEO Fleming’s opened its Livonia restaurant Jan. 19 of Detroit-based Motor City Electric Co., will be the ma- on Haggerty Road in the College Park development. A jority owners of the new restaurant, and Shannon Mc- second Fleming’s location is set to open at 323 N. Old Narney will be the general manager and will own a Woodward Ave. by mid-March. small share of the restaurant. Fleming’s is a steakhouse that tries to differentiate Lunch entrees will be about $8 and dinner entrees itself from competitors by offering a menu with a about $15, McNarney said. wider selection of nonsteak entrees, no smoking, a Exclusive, secluded development, yet in the Chuck’s on the Boulevard in Auburn Hills had brighter atmosphere and 100 wines by the glass. heart of downtown Birmingham. Design been in business for 23 years but suffered after layoffs Fleming’s now has 47 restaurants nationwide and your dream home. $240.00 monthly fee covers all exterior maintenance. 3 building at nearby automotive plants, said Lorraine Lizana, is part of Tampa, Fla.-based OSI Restaurant Partners Inc. sites left starting at $599,900. For more co-owner of the restaurant. Pi opened Jan. 8 in the space formerly occupied information, please call “We’re close to the GM plant, and they recently an- by Caffe Milano and Excalibur following a five-month, nounced transferring 3,600 people,” said Lorraine $150,000 renovation. Pi serves a variety of European CHRIS PERO Lizana, co-owner of the restaurant. cuisine. Lunch entrees will range from $8 to $15 and Century 21 Town and Country The New Orleans-style restaurant, known for its dinner entrees from $15 to $25. 248-642-8100 catfish and peach cobbler, closed Dec. 15. A group led by Tony Gioutsos purchased Caffe Mi- View All My Listings at chrispero.com Gaylord-based Big Buck is still operating its Gay- lano as well as II Posto Restaurante and II Posto Ball- lord location and a restaurant in Grapevine, Texas. room, all in Southfield, in June. HARBORTOWN CONDO However, the Auburn Hills location closed Dec. 30. Crush, at 30855 Southfield Road, opened in Octo- Waterfront Home Oslo, at 1456 Woodward Ave., was a sushi restau- ber. Crush serves up “vineyard-style cuisine.” Aver- rant with a dance floor that regularly hosted some age checks at Crush are likely to be between $22 and hottest local and national techno disc jockeys. $25 a person. Crush is owned by Michael and Susan The Metro Times first reported Oslo’s closure in De- Thibault and Nikki Leininger. cember. Oslo’s owners could not be reached for com- Brent Snavely: (313) 446-0405, [email protected] 207 Windward. 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Charles Ghesquiere Jr. under- The center’s staff are also key, See more photos & Visual Tour at stands the anxiety children often Nonprofit www.PattKoller.com receiving the Ghesquiere said. Open Sunday February 11th 1- 4 pm feel in a clinical medical setting. “You can’t discount how differ- When the opportunity to help gift: William Beaumont ent, I think, the pediatric people fund a dedicated children’s surgery Hospital in treat a patient as compared to treat- unit at William Beaumont Hospital “UP NORTH LIVING” Royal Oak. ing an adult,” Ghesquiere said. LAKE FENTON in Royal Oak came up, Ghesquiere BRIGHTON SCHOOLS Donors: The 16,000-square-foot center in- MICHIGAN said he and his wife, Barbara, knew Charles cludes a large waiting room, five they wanted to support it. Ghesquiere Jr. surgical rooms, semiprivate, pre- The couple has maintained close and Barbara operative rooms and a post-opera- ties to William Beaumont Hospitals Ghesquiere. tive recovery area. for several years. Two of their four Why the gift was made: To fund At every turn, the children are children and all of their 12 grand- the Ghesquiere Family Center for greeted by metal butterflies and children were born at the system’s Children’s Surgery. hospitals in Royal Oak and Troy. other artwork meant to distract And Ghesquiere, who is presi- them from their worries. Among esquiere Family Center for Chil- the art is some done by one of Gh- dent and founder of Mercedes-Benz dren’s Surgery, which opened in New Exclusive 10 Lot Community. 4500 SQ. FT. ON esquiere’s own granddaughters. A of Bloomfield Hills, has served on the mid-January. Beautiful waterfront 1 acre estate lots on senior at Cranbrook Educational 153’ OF LAKE FENTON board of the William Beaumont Foun- Children are not treated like lit- large all sports Woodland Lake! Each estate dation since 1998 and of William tle adults in the new center, Gh- Community in Bloomfield Hills, she has approximately 160' of frontage on paved Beaumont Hospitals since 2000. was working on the project with road. Easy freeway access! Feel like your liv- esquiere, 74, said. “They’re treated ing "Up North" when you are actually only FOR INFORMATION classmates, unbeknownst to her Those relationships prompted as someone special, and that takes minutes from the city. VISIT OUR WEB SITE the couple to make a $1 million some of the anxiety out.” grandparents, Ghesquiere said. Call for all the Details Vantage Construction www.lakefentonforsale.com cash gift to the Royal Oak hospital From the moment they arrive, Sherri Begin: (313) 446-1694, 810-220-8060 to help fund the $5.2 million Gh- the young patients are escorted in- [email protected] Page 24 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS February 5, 2007

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