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Commentary Gilbert the father, and Gilbert the son f you want to truly understand pers with his brother, and it’s a foggy put his nger in his face and said, Dan Gilbert, ask him about fa- day, and his 10-year-old brother gets ‘You killed your brother. You should For Gilbert, his “What does therhood. run over, and it’s a priest who runs have watched your brother.’” Gilbert son’s condition money really I“I did not have a close relation- him over and kills him. It wasn’t the shook his head in sympathy for his mean? All the ship with my dad,” the titan of - priest's fault, and the priest is doing long-deceased dad, who would have was a reminder of nance and Detroit real estate told last rites over the body …” turned 100 years old this year. life’s limits. “What money in the me. “My dad was a World War II mil- Gilbert looked up from the table “You can imagine what my grand- world can’t Žx itary guy, and then he owned a bar in his oce at Quicken Loans, the father did to my father,” Gilbert said. does money really this thing he’s in Detroit.” Gilbert’s rat-a-tat ca- RON FOURNIER mortgage company that launched “So you can understand how any- mean? All the dence made it hard for me to keep Publisher and Editor his business empire and has driven a body who experiences that kind of got. Maybe one up with his hot urry of thoughts resurgence in downtown Detroit. He trauma would have a hard time get- money in the day, but it can’t and images. brother is 10. (He) was born and stared me in the eyes and continued. ting close to anybody, including his Including this chilling story: raised in Detroit, a very poor neigh- “e worst part of the story: His kids.” world can’t Žx this n o w .” “My dad is 12 years old, and his borhood. He is delivering newspa- immigrant father from Russia. He SEE GILBERT, PAGE 20 thing he’s got.” Dan Gilbert, about his son

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INSIDE MICHIGAN BRIEFS CALENDAR 18 CLASSIFIED ADS 19 Senate OKs bringing back people who trade in their car for a DEALS & DETAILS 18 job-creation tax breaks new one. A 2013 law lets buyers subtract KEITH CRAIN 6 Michigan would provide tax in- some of the value of their trade-in OPINION 6 centives for business expansions from the purchase price of a new ve- OTHER VOICES 7 under legislation approved by the hicle for tax purposes. e change is Senate, e Associated Press report- being phased in until 2039. PEOPLE 18 ed. e Republican-controlled Sen- RON FOURNIER 1 Michigan has moved away from ate unanimously approved legisla- RUMBLINGS 23 such tax breaks under Gov. Rick tion Wednesday to accelerate the Snyder’s watch in favor of a smaller phase-in of the tax cut 10 years soon- WEEK ON THE WEB 23 pot of grants. But the Republi- er, by 2029. COMPANY INDEX: can-led Senate voted 32-5 for the SEE PAGE 22 new incentives Wednesday because Judge approves plan to economic development ocials say replace Flint water lines Michigan is losing business to states with generous incentives. A federal judge approved a deal their allies in the Legislature to tilt e bills would authorize Michi- Tuesday to replace water lines at the tax assessing system back in fa- gan to let companies keep part or all 18,000 homes in Flint to settle a vor of local governments, The As- of their employees’ income tax with- lawsuit over lead-contaminated sociated Press reported. holdings for ve or 10 years. e water in the troubled city, e As- The retailers have been success- businesses would have to create at sociated Press reported. fully reducing their tax bills in the least 500 jobs that pay the regional Flint will be responsible for re- Michigan Tax Tribunal since 2010, average wage. Companies also placing lead and galvanized-steel when the administrative court be- could qualify if they add at least 250 lines that bring water into homes. gan agreeing that the real estate jobs that pay 125 percent of the re- e cost could be as high as $97 should be compared to “dark,” or gional average. million with federal and state gov- A federal judge approved a deal to replace water lines at 18,000 homes in Flint. vacant, structures for tax purpos- Snyder supports the concept of ernments roughly splitting the bill. es. Bipartisan House legislation the legislation, which goes to the Pipes at more than 700 homes have for residents. Edwards told e As- Fight over big-box store reintroduced last month would re- House. been replaced so far. sociated Press that with improved taxes back in Legislature store fairness to the property tax Marc Edwards, an expert at Vir- water quality, temporary use of l- appeals system, according to sup- Speedier tax cut for car ginia Tech who in 2015 warned ters and new pipes, “Flint residents Municipalities that are collect- porters who contend that the buyers OK’d by MI Senate about dangerous lead levels after really have nothing to worry about ing substantially lower property problem has reached crisis pro- Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration other than the lost trust and history taxes than they used to from big- portions especially in smaller Michigan senators have voted to repeatedly dismissed the concerns, of this disaster, which may take a box stores must overcome opposi- communities unable to afford le- more quickly phase in a tax break for said the agreement is a good deal generation to repair.” tion from business interests and gal fights.

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Regulations Seven-day auto insurance plans may end by April 15 in Michigan By Chad Livengood prolic in Detroit because of the clined to elaborate. [email protected] city’s high cost of year-round insur- “e seven-day policy is the sub- e future of seven-day auto in- ance. ject of an ongoing DIFS administra- surance plans in Michigan is in lim- e state’s notice said Integon’s tive review,” Miller said in an email. bo. e state insurance department ability to sell seven-day plans “erefore, I am not at liberty to has put the state’s largest carrier on through L.A. Insurance stores in comment.” notice that it may forbid the sale of Michigan would end on April 15, ac- State insurance regulators said In- one-week coverage starting April 15. cording to the March 15 notice. tegon’s seven-day coverage plan is e Department of Insurance and “ey’re trying to shut down the “designed” to skirt state law requir- Financial Services notied Integon seven-day insurance plan,” L.A. In- ing continuous no-fault auto insur- National Insurance Co. on March 15 surance CEO Anthony Yousif told ance coverage on state-registered that it was withdrawing the North Crain’s. vehicles. Carolina-based carrier’s license to Andrea Miller, a spokeswoman for Rhonda Fossitt, senior deputy di- sell seven-day “Jump Start” auto in- the insurance department, said the rector of the state insurance surance plans. Seven-day plans are matter is still under review. She de- SEE AUTO, PAGE 19

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A new innovation center will be located in the Durfee Elementary-Middle School building, converting the expansive school into a community hub with a gymnasium and auditorium for public use, on-the-job-training for high school students, entrepreneur education and new business investment through a developing social investment fund. Project targets Detroit neighborhood with connection to 1967 uprising By Sherri Welch But change could be on its way. blight removal, home repairs and a [email protected] New jobs, training, investment and signature renovation project that’s Fifty years after the 1967 uprising, other resources for entrepreneurs important to each community. the central Detroit neighborhood may be headed to the neighborhood is year it hopes to recruit 12,000 where it started is a world away from as part of an e ort by the nonprot volunteers and hundreds of compa- the busy central business district Life Remodeled to convert a school nies to remove blight from 300 city downtown. that closes in June into a community blocks in the neighborhood, board Vacant homes with peeling paint innovation center over the next two up 300 homes and complete critical and broken windows mix with tidy years. It’s part of a larger blight re- home repairs for 50 homeowners for ranch homes and more modern moval e ort with major corporate the central Detroit neighborhood, as apartment buildings along residen- backing and private investors target- it did for the Cody-Rouge, Osborn Head here lj dljldjlj lj ldj ljdl hhk dh jd tial streets. Abandoned storefronts ing the neighborhood that is getting and Denby neighborhoods between and empty lots outnumber business- momentum from the anniversary of 2014 and 2016. e six-day blight re- es along the commercial corridors, the uprising. moval project is scheduled for July telling the story of companies that Life Remodeled annually picks a 31-Aug. 5. closed or left long ago. Detroit neighborhood to help with SEE PROJECT, PAGE 21

MUST READS OF THE WEEK Chappell to leave Of family, Economic Club and Longtime launching leader plans to pads go into business with Chad Livengood: her son-in-law, Lessons from the past Page 4 show how economic ladders last through generations, Page 6 4 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // APRIL 3, 2017 Chappell to leave Detroit Economic Litigation Experience Club CEO’s post By Sherri Welch ® [email protected] e Detroit Economic Club’s In Your Corner. longtime president and CEO, Beth Chappell, plans to leave her posi- Ŷ Business litigation, contracts and tion at the organization at year’s commercial matters. end. She’s departing after 15 years to Ŷ Construction law and litigation. become executive chairwoman of RediMinds Inc., a South- eld-based data strategy, data engineering and analytics rm she co-founded with her son-in- law Madhu Reddiboina last Beth Chappell: year. Leaving to work PVS Chemi- with son-in-law. cals Inc. Chair- man James B. Nicholson is leading an Economic Club board committee that’s con- ducting a local search for Chappell’s successor. In another leadership move, Bill Ford Jr., executive chairman of Ford First Tier Ranking in Corporate Law and Motor Co., plans to step down this Commercial Litigation summer after serving as chairman of the Detroit Economic Club for

Ŷ Detroit Ŷ Novi Ŷ Grand Rapids Ŷ Kalamazoo Ŷ Grand Haven Ŷ Lansing Ŷ Ann Arbor Ŷ Hastings Contact Rich Hewlett at [email protected] the past 12 years. DTE Energy Co. Chairman and CEO Gerard Ander- son will succeed him as chairman. During her tenure, Chappell, 59, has increased not only the club’s memberships and sponsorships but also its community impact and prestige on the world stage, Ford said in a release. Membership has more than dou- bled to 3,800 current members, in- cluding 1,150 young leaders age 40 and under. Chappell launched the young leaders group six years ago to en- sure the club’s viability going for- ward and last year launched an ini- tiative that takes many of them into local classrooms to help teach stu- dents career-readiness skills. Under her direction, the club has also welcomed high school and col- lege students to its meetings. Chappell launched a sponsor- ship program for the club shortly after joining to turn around the or- ganization’s nances. Today, its budget has more than quadrupled to about $2.3 million, and the organization is building re- serves to help it remain on stable ground in the future, Chappell said. It’s bittersweet to leave the De- troit Economic Club, she said, but she’s excited about the prospect of building a business with her son-in- law. “It’s time for somebody else to come in and take the club to the next level...and it’s time for me to move on to a new challenge,” Chap- pell said. Founded in 1934, the Detroit Economic Club provides a nonpar- tisan platform for the discussion and debate of important business, government and social issues.

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OPINION Look backward to see value of economic launching pads he recent death of my He volunteered to stay in the grandpa reminded me that Army for a full two-year term with your starting place on the one goal in mind: obtain the G.I. Bill Teconomic ladder is often boosted and become the rst person in his by those who climbed it rst with family to get a four-year college edu- opportunities not aorded to the cation. previous generation. “In all likelihood I would never At a Detroit Regional Chamber CHAD LIVENGOOD had gone to college otherwise,” breakfast last ursday, the head of Grandpa Livengood wrote in his an organization that worked to de- memoir. “Dad had already lined me segregate North Carolina's economy “I love this idea of up for a job on the railroad! No shared his family’s story of upward Way!!!” economic mobility. launching pad Grandpa’s Army service and G.I. David Dodson’s grandmother, Lil- institutions. We Bill-funded college education lian, was the granddaughter of a used to have turned out to be an economic and mid-19th century African slave who social launching pad to mobility made his way to freedom in Cha- them. They used that seemed unfathomable before tham, Ontario, through the Under- to proliferate. And the war. ground Railroad. He got a good job in purchasing Lillian was driven to create a bet- we urgently need at the Westinghouse Electric Corp. ter life for herself and graduated them again.” in Kansas City, which led to a series from Fisk University — a historically David Dodson of promotions and moving to Pitts- black college in Nashville — in 1910 burgh and traveling the world for and went to “the Silicon Valley of the ly 200 people in attendance to turn the company’s nuclear division. early 20th Century” to become a to their neighbors and talk about at created a comfortable mid- teacher, Dodson said. their own stories. dle-class life and spurred my dad, She went to Detroit. uncle and aunt to follow their fa- Dodson’s grandfather, Norris, was Our own stories, ther’s footsteps through college and the grandson of a free black man our own ladders careers. Grandpa’s eight grandchil- who grew up in Washington, D.C. Af- dren all went to college. ter attending a rigorous boarding We all have a story of how we got After I shared this story with the school, he made his way to Ann Ar- to where we are now. chamber’s communications direc- bor, where he earned a degree in Coincidentally, I had just told a tor, Tiany Jones, Dodson asked chemistry at the University of Michi- version of my family’s story on the people in the room at the DAC to gan. previous ursday during the eulogy share their stories of upward eco- Lillian and Norris eventually met for my paternal grandfather that I nomic mobility. in Detroit, married and paved a new delivered at his funeral at a church in e concept of “launching pad path to prosperity for their family Marshall, Mo., where I'm originally institutions” being vital was fre- amid a “rigorously and viciously seg- from. Bill Livengood, pictured with his wife Betty Jeanne, graduated from Central Missouri quently cited. regated” society, Dodson said. Born in March 1928, Bill Liven- University in 1951 with a business management degree. His college education was Launching pads like the all-black Dodson, a former ethicist for the good grew up with a meager exis- paid for by the G.I. Bill aer his military service at the end of World War II. Bill college his grandmother attended diesel engine manufacturer Cum- tence during the Great Depression Livengood’s college education was a springboard into a 27-year career at Westing- and the G.I. Bill my grandpa earned mins Inc., has master’s degrees from in west-central Missouri. His father, house Electric Corp. for his service in the Philippines. both Yale’s Divinity School and its Elmer “Pete” Livengood, worked on Dodson challenged the educa- School of Organization and Manage- the railroad between Kansas City A year ago, during our last in-per- He had never seen any part of the tors and business people in atten- ment. and St. Louis — and that seemed like son visit, I asked him about this nug- world outside of rural Missouri. And dance to focus on creating bigger “I wouldn’t be here if it hadn’t his destiny. get because of my own connection it occurred ve months before the and better launching pads in Detroit been for Detroit,” said Dodson, who In July 1941, his father got two as a Detroit journalist. He told me Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, that go beyond the programs in is president of MDC, a Durham, tickets to baseball’s All-Star game at about arriving on a train at Detroit’s thrusting America into a world war. place now to encourage more young N.C.-based nonpro t dedicated to Detroit’s Briggs Stadium (which later once-grand Michigan Central Sta- In the spring of 1946, the war was people to get a post-secondary edu- reducing poverty through expanded became Tiger Stadium). My grandpa tion and staying at a railroad YMCA won, but the country still needed cation. economic opportunity. detailed this trek to the corner of boarding house near the ballpark troops in the south Paci c. My “I love this idea of launching pad Dodson told of his family’s eco- Michigan and Trumbull in a (presumably in Corktown). grandfather had just turned 18 and institutions,” Dodson said. “We used nomic mobility at the chamber’s mini-memoir he wrote in 2009 about at trip to Detroit came at a im- was drafted into the Army for a short to have them. ey used to prolifer- “Detroit Drives Degrees” event at the his life. “My rst long rail trip,” he pressionable and pivotal time in my term of service through the end of ate. And we urgently need them Detroit Athletic Club to get the near- wrote. grandpa’s life. He was 14 years old. that year. again.” A remarkable lady: Gretchen Valade I have to admit, I don't know her troit Jazz Festival held over Labor tion of the Jazz Festival. It’s a free races on the Detroit River. very well. Her daughter-in-law is a Day weekend. event, for hundreds of thousands of Sometimes it’s companies, some- fellow board member at the College We certainly need more folks who jazz fans who ock downtown times it’s an individual like Gretchen for Creative Studies, but sadly, I have are willing to step up to the plate and during the festival. Valade, a youthful 91, who get nan- met Gretchen Valade only a couple not just to sponsor an event but get One of the exciting things about cially involved. of times. e rst was at her jazz club deeply involved in the program and our city is the ability of so many is is a wonderful tradition that in Grosse Pointe, the Dirty Dog. It execution. events to nd sponsors who nurture has been going on for decades. has become a well-known jazz hang- KEITH CRAIN e lady knows her music. And them. Gretchen Valade has been a gen- out for music a cionados. Editor-in-chief she wants to make sure that Detroi- Many events simply could not erous sponsor for a long time. We Her civic pride in sponsoring mu- ters have a chance to enjoy jazz in its happen without private-sector spon- should thank her and all folks who sic — particularly jazz — is breath- Gretchen has been the primary many forms. sor dollars, whether it’s the anks- are like her. Consider our city very taking. sponsor and benefactor of the De- is is the 12th year for this itera- giving Day parade or the hydroplane lucky. CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // APRIL 3, 2017 7 Include managed care in behavioral health integration tests MeridianHealth has been involved We know that depression can inter- When looking at the future of be- By eliminating the superuous lay- in the behavioral health integration fere with the desire to perform that havioral and physical health integra- ers that exist in today’s behavioral initiative since Gov. Rick Snyder’s 2017 self-administered care and can have a tion, we do not see any substantial health system, the funds needed to scal year budget recommendation profound impact on the person’s will- pro t margins from assuming respon- support the increased access to ade- was initially released in February 2016. ingness to reach out to friends, family sibility of the behavioral health bene- quate behavioral health services are rough the stakeholder group members or physicians for help. When t. Instead, with full integration, there easily attainable. known as the 298 Workgroup, we you consider the fact that the likeli- is an overwhelming need to reinvest Allowing managed care organiza- quickly learned that managed care or- hood of noncompliance with medical more dollars into the behavioral tions to pilot a proposed model in sup- ganizations would have a dicult time OTHER VOICES treatment is three times higher for de- health system to treat this vulnerable port of behavioral health integration winning a seat at the table for the con- Jon Cotton pressed patients than for nonde- population. By doing so, we see real opens the opportunity for true pa- cepts that we believe would have pro- pressed patients, there becomes a real savings in physical health costs when tient-centered care and improved Cotton is president of MeridianHealth found impact on today’s disjointed need to promote meaningful inter- members with co-morbidities are able health outcomes. behavioral health system. Plan in Michigan. vention. And this example barely graz- to treat their behavioral health condi- Barring managed care from this Why is it that the behavioral health es the surface of the issues that tran- tions, which will promote their adher- process limits our ability to bring organizations and advocacy groups also requires the commitment to spire from having physical and mental ence to treating their physical health meaningful change to the system that are so vehemently opposed to allow- healthy lifestyle changes like an im- co-morbidities treated through sepa- conditions and keep them out of the is not providing the comprehensive ing the Medicaid managed care orga- proved diet and routine exercise. rate systems. emergency room and urgent care. care we know is possible. nizations to submit our ideas and pro- posals with equal clout? Additionally, why is there so much focus on pre- venting our organizations from being part of the pilot process? 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The Palace of Auburn Hills The Summit Place Mall site in Waterford Township.

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The remains of the Silverdome in Pontiac.

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 ed due to a non-disclosure agree- Prominent Fates of big Oakland County parcels to be decided soon ment. By Kirk Pinho “‘Hello and welcome, or goodbye,’” properties [email protected] said Supervisor Gary Wall, character- The most prominent sites in north e fates of three prominent north izing the decision expected to be Oakland County. Oakland County properties could be made next week. resolved in the next several months. What happens with the site is up in Property Site size O cials in Pontiac and Waterford the air. But Eric Banks, executive prin- Summit Place Township have long tried to  nd cipal and executive director of bro- Mall 75 acres solutions for the blighted Summit kerage services for Bingham Farms- Pontiac 127.5 acres Place Mall and the Pontiac Silver- based Core Partners, which is Silverdome dome properties. Meanwhile, the representing Santa Monica-based owner of e Palace of Auburn Hills owner SD Capital LLC in the sale, said The Palace of 110 acres is in the process of determining what a “major sports and entertainment Auburn Hills to do with the arena once the Detroit development” project is planned. Oakland 100 acres Pistons pack their bags for Little Cae- e nuts and bolts, according to Technology Park sars Arena downtown later this year. PRIME DESIGN INC. Banks: a 12,000-seat arena with bas- Now, demolition of the Silver- A “major sports and entertainment development” project is planned on the site of ketball courts, four hockey rinks, a consider moving forward with its dome is scheduled to begin this sum- closed Summit Place Mall in Waterford Township. wave pool, an IMAX theater, a hotel, dangerous building process, likely mer, and new details have emerged 100,000 square feet of sports-related leading to demolition of the mall, about what a yet-to-be identi ed de- Summit Place Mall retail space, outlot restaurants, soccer which opened in 1963 and was devel- veloper wants to do with the mall Inside and football  elds and other uses. oped by what is now Farmington that straddles the Waterford/Pontiac Delivered a death by a thousand Earlier this year, Crain's reported  Metro Detroit apartment market Hills-based Ramco-Gershenson border. has one of the lowest vacancy cuts over the last several years, the that former Detroit Lions wide receiv- Properties Trust (NYSE: RPT). Combined, those properties and Summit Place Mall site at Telegraph er Herman Moore is in talks to invest Wall said the site is massive. rates, Page 9 the Palace make up more than 300 and Elizabeth Lake roads sits empty with the development group, and for- “I have 40-plus years in the con- acres of property with either active and blighted. mer University of Michigan basket- struction business and I have never redevelopment proposals or a high nent — and perplexing — sites in It has been the target of redevelop- ball player and current Oakland worked (on) anything of this size,” he likelihood of redevelopment in the north Oakland County, with bounds ment proposals ranging from mi- Community College men’s basketball said. not-so-distant future. of potential uses for whoever can nor-league baseball stadiums to wa- coach Antoine Joubert is a commit- First known as the Pontiac Mall, it Time will tell what happens: ere make the redevelopments work. ter parks to multifamily housing, ted investor. began declining when nearby Great is a crucial April 10 meeting on the Another 100 acres of developable none of which have materialized. ere is a tentative purchase Lakes Crossing Outlets in Auburn Summit Place fate, and last week's land across three sites are available at Now the Waterford Township agreement, which has a six-month Hills, developed by Bloom eld Hills- court agreement makes it all but cer- the Oakland Technology Park in Au- board expects to vote April 10 on due diligence period, to buy the mall based Taubman Centers Inc., opened tain the Silverdome will be demol- burn Hills, though development whether to allow a sale of the proper- from SD Capital. in 1998 and siphoned shoppers ished in the next several months. questions have proved less vexing for ty to a private development group If the township does not accept the northeast. ey are among the most promi- these parcels. which has not been publicly identi- plan next week, the township could SEE SITES , PAGE 10 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // APRIL 3, 2017 9

SPECIAL REPORT: REAL ESTATE Metro Detroit apartment market has one of nation’s lowest vacancy rates By Kirk Pinho Rents have also been rising sub- [email protected] stantially, which could spur new Downtown Detroit isn’t the only construction. is year, 2,600 apart- hot area for apartments in town. ments are expected to come online, In fact, the entire metropolitan up from 2,400 in 2016 and 1,500 in area has one of the lowest vacancy 2015, according to Marcus & Milli- rates nationally, according to a re- chap. Rents are expected to rise 5.7 port from Marcus & Millichap Real percent this year to $951 and rose 5.7 Estate Investment Services Inc., percent last year to $910 per month, which is based in Calabasas, Calif., according to Marcus & Millichap. and has its regional o ce in South- Dave Ferszt: Steven Chaben: Marcus & Millichap is not the only Millennials coming Market creating eld. rm that gives metro Detroit strong back to state. rent growth. A number of factors are driving marks for its multifamily market. the remarkably low vacancy rate. Berkadia, which is based in Ambler, e Urban Land Institute says in its A growing employment base is Pa., and has an o ce in Southeld, annual Emerging Trends in Real Es- driving demand for apartment liv- predicts the vacancy rate will remain tate report that an inux of millenni- ing, said Dave Ferszt, president of steady at 3.4 percent and expects a als into the job market, weariness for Farmington Hills-based apartment 3.5 percent rent increase to $1,005 single-family housing following the manager and developer Village per month by the end of the year. 2008 crash, and the desire for life- Green Cos. Kevin Dillon, managing director style exibility — along with con- “As you are seeing jobs generating of Berkadia’s Southeld o ce, said sumer credit issues, student debt in the MSA (metropolitan statistical he expects rents to continue to rise loads and tighter mortgage require- area) ... auto is a big part of that, but overall between 3 and 6 percent ments — are buoying the apartment millennials are coming back to through 2018 and, barring a down- sector across the country. Michigan for professional jobs, and I turn, multifamily occupancy rates to With a 2.6 percent vacancy rate don’t think they are really home remain above 95 percent. expected this year, holding steady at buyers today,” Ferszt said. “e gen- e strong rent and vacancy num- the same level as 2016, the region’s eral employment market improve- bers have fueled some large local apartment market is tied with Los ment has helped tremendously.” apartment complex sales in recent Angeles, and bested only by River- But another reason vacancy rates years, including some of the largest, side-San Bernardino (2.5 percent), are so low is because supply isn’t in terms of total cost. Miami-Dade and Sacramento (2 keeping up with demand. While a Two of the top ve investment percent each) and Minneapolis-St. limited number of new apartments sales in 2016 were for big apartment Paul (1.9 percent) nationally, ac- are under construction in pockets buildings, including the $79.5 million cording to the Marcus & Millichap like Royal Oak, Ferndale, Milford purchase of the Riverfront Towers in forecast. and Plymouth, the pace of new downtown Detroit and the $32.25 Steven Chaben, senior vice presi- apartment development in the met- million purchase of the Fairlane East dent and regional manager of Mar- ro Detroit area may lag behind other apartments in Dearborn. Riverfront  cus & Millichap’s Southeld o ce, regions, said Samuel Beznos, CEO of Towers has 557 apartments ($142,729 said it’s the strongest apartment Farmington Hills-based Beztak Cos. per unit), while Fairlane East has 244 market he has seen in more than “We had 10 plus years of down- ($128,074 per unit). 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Steve Apostolopoulos, uled to wrap up this year. co-founder and managing partner of In November, the Pistons an- e building is still widely consid- Triple Properties, which owns the nounced they would be moving ered to be an excellent sports and 80,311-seat former home of the De- from the 22,000-seat Palace to Little concert facility and draws rst-tier troit Lions at Opdyke and Feather- Caesars Arena in downtown Detroit, acts. stone roads, declined comment last which is currently under construc- week. tion and expected to be complete in Oakland Technology Park But in a press release last week, time for the 2017-18 NHL and NBA his father, Andreas Apostolopoulos, seasons. e 1,100-acre-plus Oakland CEO of Toronto-based Triple Invest- Real estate experts have said they Technology Park in Auburn Hills ment Group, said the company has expect the Palace to eventually be has faced fewer struggles than the “reached a point where we must say demolished and redeveloped. Silverdome and Summit Place Mall. goodbye to what was once one of the Among the development probabili- It has attracted companies like world’s greatest venues.” ties: corporate users, which have Faurecia North America Inc., Atlas “As we say goodbye to an iconic headed to Auburn Hills in droves in Copco North America Inc., and Hi- place that was the setting for so the last several years to build new rotec America Inc. for new build- many great memories, we put in North American and global head- ings, and it still has 100 acres of un- place new development opportuni- quarters buildings and other facili- developed land available for new ties for one of the most unique prop- ties, like research and development projects, said Stacy Fields, asset erties in our nation.” space. manager for Southeld-based Gen- Late last year, Triple Properties City Manager Tom Tanghe said eral Development Co. LLC, which sued the local oce of Los Ange- city ocials will meet with Palace owns the remaining property in a les-based CBRE Inc., which had Sports & Entertainment in the com- joint-venture with Farmington marketed the property for sale, alleg- ing weeks to discuss the fate of the Hills-based Friedman Integrated ing that brokers had not properly in- property, which sits on about 100 Real Estate Solutions LLC. formed Triple that there was an op- acres. 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SPECIAL REPORT: DETROIT’S HIGHEST PAID ATHLETES

By Bill Shea [email protected]

he Detroit Tigers again dominate the annual Crain’s list of the 25 top- Tigers dominate paid professional athletes, including six in the top 10, but that could change in coming years. Tigers owner Mike Ilitch, who died in February, had established a Treputation for doling out enormous contracts to star players, deals that were more the highest-paid in line with a large-market club rather than a middle-market team such as Detroit. e billionaire pizza baron did the same with his Detroit Red Wings over the years, too, before the National Hockey League established a salary cap. Will his heirs continue such spending? e conventional wisdom has been that list once again the Tigers’ payroll will slim down over the next few years, perhaps even radically so if the team opts to shed stars via trades. Son Chris Ilitch now runs the team, and in Find the full list and team-by-team breakdowns on Page 14 February he told reporters at spring training there is no mandate on payroll. How- The Top Ten Justin Upton 25 Out elder, Tigers. Age: 29 2017 base salary: $22.125 million Contract: 6 years, $132.75 million (2016-21) Here’s the deal: The Tigers signed him as a free-agent in January 2016 to replace Yoenis Cespedes as their everyday le› ‘ elder. A› er a slow start with just three home runs over his ‘ rst 48 games, he hit 28 in his ‘ nal 105 games. His ability to get on base in 2016 was lower than his career averages. Before signing with Detroit, Upton was coming Miguel Cabrera Justin Verlander o a six-year, $51.5 1B/DH, Tigers. Age: 33 Pitcher, Tigers. Age: 34 million deal signed with the Arizona $28 million $28 million 2017 base salary: 2017 base salary: Diamondbacks that Contract: 8 years, $248 million (2016-23), plus 2024-25 options Contract: 7 years, $180 million (2013-19) accompanied him in trades Here’s the deal: The slugger commands a massive salary because he’s one of Here’s the deal: The ‘ reballer struggled in 2014, and surgery in 2015 limited him to the Atlanta Braves and the greatest hitters in Major League Baseball history and is the ‘ xture around to 20 starts. He roared back in 2016 to lead the AL with 254 strikeouts, and lost out San Diego Padres. It paid which the Tigers are constructed. The 11-time All Star1 is a career .321 hitter with on a second Cy Young Award only because2 two voters le› him o their ballots. He’s 3 him $14.5 million in 2015, 446 home runs. He’s a two-time American League MVP, and in 2012 became won 173 games in 12 seasons with 2,197 strikeouts — second in team history to and he cashed in with the baseball’s ‘ rst Triple Crown winner since 1967. The Tigers picked him up in a Mickey Lolich’s 2,679. Since 2005, he has won the AL Rookie of the Year, been a Tigers with a contract that December 2007 trade with the Florida Marlins. He initially signed an eight-year, six-time All Star, led the AL in strikeouts four times, and won the Cy Young Award paid him $22.125 million last $152.3 million contract that expired in 2015. He signed an eight-year extension in and MVP in 2011. Detroit has rewarded him: His rookie contract was $4.5 million year and will again in 2017. 2014 that takes the deal through 2023 and pays him another $248 million. That over ‘ ve years, and he got a one-year, $3.675 million deal in 2009. That was He can opt out a› er this deal has option years for 2024-25 worth an additional $60 million. If he plays followed by a ‘ ve-year, $80 million contract supplanted by a deal that runs through season, voiding the through 2025, he’ll have been paid $460.3 million. By contrast, Cabrera’s o¢ ce, 2019 (with a $22 million option in 2020). Verlander has been rumored to be trade ‘ nal four years of Comerica Park, cost $326 million to build. The worry: Age. He turns 34 this month. bait, but he’s still here for now. the deal.

Matthew Sta ord Quarterback, Lions. Age: 29 2017 base salary: $16.5 million Contract: 3 years, $53 million (2015-17) Here’s the deal: He holds nearly every Lions passing record, and has led them to three playo games. Yet, Detroit lost all of those — something Sta ord’s critics are keen to remind everyone. In 2016, he orchestrated an NFL-record eight fourth-quar- Victor Martinez ter comebacks en route to a 9-7 record and NFC wild card 6Designated hitter, Tigers. Age: 38 7 8 Tobias Harris berth. His 25 career 2017 base salary: $18 million Forward, Pistons. Age: 24 fourth-quarter rallies are 14th Contract: 4 years, $68 million (2015-18) most in NFL history. He’s started 96 2017 base salary: $17.2 million Here’s the deal: Martinez is entering his 15th major league season, and age looms consecutive games and earned a over his career. Last season saw a career-high 90 strikeouts that likely were the result Contract: 4 years, $64 million (2015-19) reputation for toughness. The 2017 of an undisclosed hernia that required o -season surgery. He’s relied upon for his bat Here’s the deal: He was named a full-time starter on March 17 a› er a year of season is the ‘ nal year of his current — he hit .289 in 2017 with 27 home runs — and his leadership. Last year, he started at being alternated at forward with Jon Leuer. Detroit has been mediocre this season, deal, and it’s expected that the Lions ‘ rst base ‘ ve times while appearing in the starting lineup as a DH in 138 games. Still, but Harris has led the team in scoring average and shooting percentage while com- will try to sign him to a long-term his 154 total games last season were the third-most of his career. He was an All Star ing o the bench more o› en than starting. At one point this season, he was in the extension. At 29, he’s entering the as recently at 2014 (‘ nishing second in MVP voting), when he led baseball with a conversation as the NBA’s top sixth man. The Pistons acquired him in a February physical peak of his career, and likely .409 on-base percentage. Detroit signed him as a free agent in November 2010 to a 2016 trade that sent Ersan Ilyasova and Brandon Jennings to the Orlando Magic. will command well more than $20 four-year, $50 million contract that was followed by his current deal. Harris could remain as a building block if the Pistons opt to retool their roster. million a season. CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // APRIL 3, 2017 13

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By Bill Shea [email protected] ever, he signaled that the team will concentrate on drafting and developing talent more than seeking it via writing huge checks to free agents, as his father did. He did he Detroit Tigers again dominate the annual Crain’s list of the 25 top- not speci cally rule out a splashy signing if it  t a team need while in contention. Tigers dominate paid professional athletes, including six in the top 10, but that could For now, the team will pay more than $200 million this season — $153 million change in coming years. of that to eight players — in a bid to get back to the World Series. Tigers owner Mike Ilitch, who died in February, had established a Contracts are in uenced by many factors, but chief among them are a league’s Treputation for doling out enormous contracts to star players, deals that were more salary cap and an owner’s spending tolerance. Major League Baseball has no such the highest-paid in line with a large-market club rather than a middle-market team such as Detroit. payroll limitation beyond a luxury tax that deep-pocket owners (including Mike Il- e billionaire pizza baron did the same with his Detroit Red Wings over the years, itch) have been willing to pay. e other three leagues ranges in their salary limits too, before the National Hockey League established a salary cap. and rules: is year, the National Football League will cap payroll at $167 million, Will his heirs continue such spending? e conventional wisdom has been that while the National Basketball Association is $94.1 million. e NHL has the lowest list once again the Tigers’ payroll will slim down over the next few years, perhaps even radically so cap at $73 million. For context, in 2004, the year before the league’s work stoppage if the team opts to shed stars via trades. Son Chris Ilitch now runs the team, and in led to a salary cap, the Red Wings were spending nearly $80 million on players. February he told reporters at spring training there is no mandate on payroll. How- Bill Shea: 313 (446-1626) Twitter: @Bill_Shea19

Justin Upton Jordan Out elder, Tigers. Age: 29 Zimmermann 2017 base salary: $22.125 million Pitcher, Tigers. Age: 30 Contract: 6 years, 2017 base salary: $18 million $132.75 million (2016-21) Contract: 5 years, $110 million Here’s the deal: The Tigers signed (2016-20) him as a free-agent in January 2016 Here’s the deal: Another splashy to replace Yoenis Cespedes as their free-agent signing last year by Tigers everyday le• ‘ elder. A• er a slow owner Mike Ilitch served to excite fans, start with just three home runs over and Zimmerman bolstered expecta- his ‘ rst 48 games, he hit 28 in his tions by allowing just two runs over 33 ‘ nal 105 games. His ability to innings in April. At some point, neck get on base in 2016 was pain began to a ect him and sent him lower than his career averages. Before to the disabled list in July. Pain limited signing with Detroit, him to 18 starts, and his 4.87 ERA and Upton was coming 1.367 WHIP were o his o a six-year, $51.5 career norms. million deal signed With the Nats, with the Arizona Andre Drummond he was a two-time All Diamondbacks that Center, Pistons. Age: 23 accompanied him in trades Star and 2017 base salary: $22.1 million to the Atlanta Braves and tossed a San Diego Padres. It paid Contract: 5 years, $127.1 million (2016-21) no-hitter. 3 him $14.5 million in 2015, 4Here’s the deal: In July, the Pistons made Drummond the highest-paid player in Detroit will 5 and he cashed in with the franchise history. Expectations were enormous. While still arguably the NBA’s best rely on him to Tigers with a contract that rebounder, he’s basically a ¥ op in every other aspect. He’s been criticized as lacking anchor the paid him $22.125 million last energy. He’s largely an o ensive liability and even worse free-throw shooter with a middle of the rotation year and will again in 2017. career .383 percentage from the line. That’s historically bad. So bad that teams behind Verlander and 2016 He can opt out a• er this were fouling him so o• en late in games that the NBA had to alter its rules. Coach AL Rookie of the Year Michael season, voiding the Stan Van Gundy has benched him at times this season as he tries to tinker his way Fulmer. His health could go a long ‘ nal four years of to a playo spot. Yet, Drummond is just 23, and a favorite of team owner Tom way to determine how the deal. Gores. Can and will he improve, or is the team stuck with a salary cap albatross? Detroit’s 2017 plays out.

Matthew Sta ord Anibal Sánchez Quarterback, Lions. Age: 29 Pitcher, Tigers. Age: 33 2017 base salary: $16.5 million 2017 base salary: $16 million Contract: 3 years, $53 million Contract: 5 years, $80 million (2015-17) (2013-17) Here’s the deal: He holds nearly Here’s the deal: A• er coming over every Lions passing record, and has in a July 2012 trade with the Miami led them to three playo games. Marlins, Sánchez turned in an Yet, Detroit lost all of those — excellent 2013 that saw him lead the something Sta ord’s critics are AL with a 2.57 ERA. Deteriorating keen to remind everyone. In fastball velocity has contributed to 2016, he orchestrated an the sharp decline in his performance. NFL-record eight fourth-quar- Control and movement on his pitches ter comebacks en route to a are a problem, and he’s given up 59 9-7 record and NFC wild card home runs the past two seasons, 910 berth. His 25 career including 30 in 2016. Recording a 6.67 Reggie Jackson fourth-quarter rallies are 14th ERA over his ‘ rst 11 starts last season Guard, Pistons. Age: 26 most in NFL history. He’s started 96 earned him a demotion to the bullpen, $14.9 million consecutive games and earned a but injuries to other pitchers meant 2017 base salary: reputation for toughness. The 2017 he was back among the starters by Contract: 5 years, $80 million (2015-20) season is the ‘ nal year of his current July. He ended with a career-worst Here’s the deal: Another expensive player the Pistons have benched and deal, and it’s expected that the Lions 5.87 ERA for the season. He’s had an shopped. He lost his job to journeyman Ish Smith. This season, ESPN.com reported will try to sign him to a long-term up and down spring training this year trade talks that would have sent Jackson to Minnesota or Orlando, but nothing extension. At 29, he’s entering the and will start the season in the panned out. The Pistons acquired him in a three-team deal with the Oklahoma City physical peak of his career, and likely bullpen. His contract has a $16 million Thunder and the Utah Jazz in February 2015. They gave him his current contract in will command well more than $20 club option or $5 million buyout for July 2015. He missed time at the end of last season and the beginning of this year million a season. 2018. with injuries. He’s young still, but his future with Detroit appears in grave doubt. 14 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // APRIL 3, 2017

SPECIAL REPORT: DETROIT’S HIGHEST PAID ATHLETES

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Photographs by Associated Press, Getty Images; some images were supplied by the teams. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Highest paid, all teams Team-by-team breakdown This list includes all athletes currently on team rosters as of March 31. Salary gures are base pay for the 2016-17 season. Bonuses, Here’s how the overall highest-paid athletes stack up within their own team. endorsement income, and other nancial investments are not included. Tied salaries were ranked by overall contract size. Tigers Rank Player Team Age Position 2017 salary Rank Player Age Position 2017 salary 1 Miguel Cabrera Tigers 33 First baseman $28,000,000 team/all 2 Justin Verlander Tigers 34 Pitcher $28,000,000 1 1 Miguel Cabrera 33 1B $28,000,000 3 Justin Upton Tigers 29 Out„elder $22,125,000 2 2 Justin Verlander 34 SP $28,000,000 4 Andre Drummond Pistons 23 Center $22,116,750 3 3 Justin Upton 29 LF $22,125,000 5 Jordan Zimmermann Tigers 30 Relief pitcher $18,000,000 4 5 Jordan Zimmermann 30 SP $18,000,000 6 Victor Martinez Tigers 38 Designated hitter $18,000,000 5 6 Victor Martinez 38 DH $18,000,000 7 Tobias Harris Pistons 24 Forward $17,200,000 6 9 Anibal Sanchez 33 P $16,000,000 8 Matthew Sta‘ord Lions 29 Quarterback $16,500,000 7 12 J.D. Martinez 29 RF $11,750,000 9 Anibal Sanchez Tigers 33 Pitcher $16,000,000 8 13 Ian Kinsler 34 2B $11,000,000 10 Reggie Jackson Pistons 26 Guard $14,956,522 9 22 Francisco Rodriguez 35 RP/CL $6,000,000 11 Ezekiel Ansah Lions 27 Defensive end $12,734,000 12 J.D. Martinez Tigers 29 Out„elder $11,750,000 Lions 13 Ian Kinsler Tigers 34 Second baseman $11,000,000 Rank Player Age Position 2017 salary team/all 14 Jon Leuer Pistons 27 Forward $10,991,957 1 8 Matthew Sta‘ord 29 QB $16,500,000 15 Henrik Zetterberg Red Wings 36 Center $7,750,000 2 11 Ezekiel Ansah 27 DE $12,734,000 16 Boban Marjanovic Pistons 28 Center $7,000,000 3 17 Marvin Jones 27 WR $7,000,000 17 Marvin Jones Lions 27 Wide receiver $7,000,000 18 Aron Baynes Pistons 30 Forward $6,500,000 4 20 Golden Tate 28 WR $6,000,000 19 Mike Green Red Wings 31 Defenseman $6,000,000 5 23 Haloti Ngata 33 DT $5,500,000 20 Golden Tate Lions 28 Wide receiver $6,000,000 21 Ishmael Smith Pistons 28 Guard $6,000,000 Pistons 22 Francisco Rodriguez Tigers 35 Relief pitcher $6,000,000 Rank Player Age Position 2017 salary team/all 23 Haloti Ngata Lions 33 Defensive tackle $5,500,000 1 4 Andre Drummond 23 C $22,116,750 24 Niklas Kronwall Red Wings 36 Defenseman $5,500,000 2 7 Tobias Harris 24 PF $17,200,000 25 Jimmy Howard Red Wings 31 Goalie $5,500,000 3 10 Reggie Jackson 26 PG $14,956,522 Source: Spotrac.com, Crain’s reporting 4 14 Jon Leuer 27 PF $10,991,957 Quick hits List changes 5 16 Boban Marjanovic 28 C $7,000,000 Here are some takeaways from the list, which is based Four players are gone from 2016’s top 25: 6 18 Aron Baynes 30 PF $6,500,000 on base salary for 2017: J Tigers center elder Cameron Maybin, 29, who made 7 21 Ishmael Smith 28 PG $6,000,000 J e top 10 remains unchanged from last year. $8.1 million last season, was traded in November to the J e Tigers have 12 players in the top 25 in 2016, but Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. only nine this year. J Shortstop Erick Aybar, 33, now with the San Diego Pa- Red Wings J e total combined salaries of all the players on the dres, made part of his $8.75 million last season with the Rank Player Age Position 2017 salary list is $316.1 million. Tigers after coming over in an August trade with Atlanta. team/all J e average salary is $12.6 million, down slightly from J e Lions let oensive tackle Riley Rei, 29, leave in 1 15 Henrik Zetterberg 35 C $7,750,000 last year’s $12.7 million. free agency. He made $8 million in 2016 as part of the J e average age of the players in the top 25 is 30.3 years four-year, $7.9 rookie deal after the 2012 NFL Draft. e 2 19 Mike Green 30 D $6,000,000 old. Victor Martinez is oldest at 38. Andre Drummond is Vikings signed him March 9. 3 24 Niklas Kronwall 36 D $5,500,000 youngest at 23. J e Tigers released Mike Pelfrey last week. ey had J Miguel Cabrera and Justin Verlander are tied with the been due to pay him $8 million this season on a two- 4 25 Jimmy Howard 31 G $5,500,000 fourth-highest MLB salaries this season at $28 million each. year, $16 million deal signed before the 2016 season. Source: Spotrac.com, Crain’s reporting Gone, but not forgotten nancially There are ve players who would have made the Top 25 in 2017 salaries, but are no longer on a Detroit roster. Player Team Age Position 2017 salary Reason DeAndre Levy Lions 29 OLB $5,750,000 Lions announced Levy’s release on March 9, hip and knee injuries, will count $2.4 million against salary cap with June 1 cut Josh Smith Pistons 31 SF $5,331,729 Waived Dec. 22, 2014; four-year, $54 million deal Prince Fielder Tigers 32 1B/DH $6,000,000 As part of the 2013 Ian Kinsler trade, Detroit agreed to pay $30 million of Fielder’s salary in $6 million annual installments from 2016-20. Of the $214 million total salary, the Tigers will end up paying $76 million of it. Mark Lowe Tigers 33 RP $5,500,000 Cut by the Tigers on March 26 a£er struggling out of the bullpen. Detroit still will pay him $5.5 million this year as part of the two-year, $11 million contract he signed in 2016. Mike Pelfrey Tigers 33 RP $8,000,000 Like Lowe, he was cut by the Tigers on March 30 a£er struggling in his relief role. The Tigers will pay him $8 million this season as part of his two-year, $16 million deal signed in 2016. Source: Spotrac.com, Crain’s reporting CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // APRIL 3, 2017 15

CRAIN'S LIST: LARGEST GENERAL CONTRACTORS Ranked by 2016 revenue Value of Company Revenue new contracts Local Total Southeast Address ($000,000) ($000,000) employees new projects Michigan projects Rank Phone; website Top local executive(s) 2016/2015 2016/2015 Jan. 2017 2016/2015 started 2016 Barton Malow Co. Ryan Maibach $2,425.5 $1,823.8 1,100 283 191 1 26500 American Drive, Southfield 48034 president and CEO $1,780.3 $1,882.2 236 (248) 436-5000; www.bartonmalow.com Belfor Holdings Inc. Sheldon Yellen 1,590.2 1,524.9 1,950 102,000 3,597 2 185 Oakland Ave., Suite 150, Birmingham 48009 CEO 1,400.2 B 1,424.6 NA (248) 594-1144; www.belfor.com Walbridge Aldinger Co. John Rakolta Jr. 1,450.0 1,440.0 360 158 69 3 777 Woodward Ave., Suite 300, Detroit 48226 chairman and CEO 1,432.0 1,366.0 185 (313) 963-8000; www.walbridge.com Aristeo Construction Co. Joseph Aristeo 402.8 354.0 385 390 NA 4 12811 Farmington Road, Livonia 48150 president 410.0 367.9 456 (734) 427-9111; www.aristeo.com Commercial Contracting Group Inc. William Pettibone 298.0 NA NA NA NA 5 4260 N. Atlantic Blvd., Auburn Hills 48326 chairman 291.0 195.0 143 (248) 209-0500; www.cccnetwork.com Ideal Contracting Frank Venegas Jr. 273.3 245.9 NA 743 766 6 2525 Clark St., Detroit 48209 chairman and CEO 239.0 274.0 879 (313) 843-8000; www.idealcontracting.com Walsh Construction Co. Sam Bahou 253.3 43.4 118 128 4 7 3011 W. Grand Blvd., Suite 2300, Detroit 48202 business group leader 251.3 NA 115 (313) 873-6600; www.walshgroup.com Clark Construction Co. Charles Clark 238.3 218.0 23 22 10 8 3535 Moores River Drive, Lansing 48911 CEO 245.0 234.0 25 (517) 372-0940; www.clarkcc.com Roncelli Inc. Gary Roncelli 235.0 280.0 218 85 80 6471 Metropolitan Parkway, Sterling Heights 48312 chairman and CEO 242.0 224.0 90 9 (586) 264-2060; www.roncelli-inc.com Thomas Wickersham president and COO Sachse Construction and Development Co. LLC Todd Sachse 203.7 253.0 155 225 108 1528 Woodward Ave., Suite 600, Detroit 48226 CEO and founder 172.2 227.2 186 10 (313) 481-8200; www.sachseconstruction.com Steve Berlage president and COO George W. Auch Co. Vincent DeLeonardis 172.8 271.5 92 126 126 11 735 S. Paddock St., Pontiac 48341 president and CEO 136.5 163.5 150 (248) 334-2000; www.auchconstruction.com Dearborn Mid-West Co. Jeff Homenik 172.0 NA NA NA NA 12 20334 Superior Road, Taylor 48180 president and CEO 183.0 NA NA (734) 288-4400; www.dmwcc.com Devon Industrial Group David Burnley 160.0 103.0 60 8 6 13 535 Griswold St., Suite 2050, Detroit 48226 president 62.9 120.8 5 (313) 221-1550; www.devonindustrial.com The Colasanti Cos. Angelo Colasanti 135.0 173.4 200 25 20 24500 Wood Court, Macomb Twp. 48042 CEO 102.0 NA NA 14 (586) 598-9700; www.colasantigroup.com Carey Colasanti president DeMaria Building Co. Tony DeMaria 124.1 86.3 145 44 44 45500 Grand River Ave., Novi 48374-1305 president 144.2 100.0 51 15 (248) 348-8710; www.demariabuild.com Joseph DeMaria Jr CEO Turner Construction Co. David Kelly 108.7 316.2 60 50 45 16 535 Griswold St., Suite 1525, Detroit 48226 vice president and general manager 132.6 152.5 30 (313) 596-0500; www.turnerconstruction.com Alberici Constructors Inc. Mark Okroy 106.6 85.2 10 13 2 17 26711 Northwestern Hwy. Suite 255, Southfield 48033 vice president and general manager 167.5 100.0 7 (734) 367-2500; www.alberici.com The Christman Co. Ronald Staley 100.0 830.5 29 104 15 The Fisher Building, 3011 W. Grand Blvd., Suite 2600, Detroit senior vice president, Southeast 120.1 700.0 93 18 48202-3030 Michigan operations (313) 908-6060; www.christmanco.com Kirco Manix Douglas Manix 96.0 90.0 35 25 20 19 101 W. Big Beaver, Suite 200, Troy 48084 president 61.0 125.0 20 (248) 354-5100; www.kircomanix.com Marsh Construction (T.H. Marsh) Ryan Marsh 90.0 NA 56 NA NA 20 100 W. Long Lake Road, Suite 200, Bloomfield Hills 48304 president and CEO 83.0 NA NA (248) 586-4130; www.thmarsh.com Oliver/Hatcher Construction and Development Inc. Paul Hatcher, president; Paul Oliver, 86.7 79.0 32 NA NA 21 27333 Meadowbrook Road, Suite 100, Novi 48377 principal 43.0 NA NA (248) 374-1100; www.oliverhatcher.com Kasco Inc. Michael Engle 80.6 62.6 68 135 115 22 226 E. Hudson St., Royal Oak 48067 vice president 72.0 60.0 NA (248) 547-1210; www.kascoinc.com C.E. Gleeson Constructors Inc. Charles E. Gleeson II 79.0 89.0 36 27 13 23 984 Livernois, Troy 48083 president and CEO 70.5 81.0 29 (248) 647-5500; www.gleesonconstructors.com Frank Rewold and Son Inc. Frank Rewold 69.5 211.7 61 29 29 24 333 E. Second St., Rochester 48307 president and CEO 91.9 166.0 25 (248) 651-7242; www.frankrewold.com Rudolph/Libbe Inc. Kenneth Swartz 44.3 NA 60 NA 395 25 47461 Clipper St., Plymouth 48170 general manager, Southeast Michigan 36.2 NA 370 (734) 455-0600; www.rlgbuilds.com operations

This list of general contractors is a compilation of the largest such companies in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw and Livingston counties. It is not a complete listing but the most comprehensive available. Crain's estimates are based on industry analyses and benchmarks, news reports and a wide range of other sources. Unless otherwise noted, information was provided by the companies. Companies with headquarters elsewhere are listed with the address and top executive of their main Southeast Michigan office. Actual revenue figures may vary. NA = not available. If you believe your company should be on this list, contact Sonya Hill at [email protected]. B In 2015, 88.05 percent of revenue for Belfor, a disaster recovery firm, was from construction management. The figure was 92 percent in 2014.

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Supreme Court case could bring CRAIN'S LIST: OFFICE LEASES patent cases back to Michigan Ranked by square feet being at home, except in these cases,” Square By Dustin Walsh Rank Building Owner, owner city Tenant Broker feet [email protected] Barber said. Starwood Capital Partners, Ford Motor Co. Signature Associates, CBRE e result of a Supreme Court Barber said if the Supreme Court Fairlane Town 240,858 1 Center, Dearborn Greenwich, Conn. Inc. case between two food companies rules in favor of changing jurisdic- Arboretum, Friedman Integrated Real TRW Automotive Friedman Integrated Real 171,332 may benet Southeast Michigan’s tion, local automakers will immedi- B 2 Farmington Hills Estate Solutions LLC, US LLC Estate Solutions LLC automotive industry and the attor- ately save on legal costs, because it’s Farmington Hills neys that represent them. expensive to try cases far from their 1900 St. Antoine, Bedrock LLC, Detroit Rock Connections Bedrock Management Services 95,804 e patent case, TC Heartland home bases. 3 Detroit LLC LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands, Roughly 10 percent of all patent Twelve Oaks C&S Twelve Mile Center LLC, Yanfeng US CBRE Inc. 93,194 that entered the nation’s highest cases involved automotive compa- 4 Professional Center, Bloomfield Hills Automotive court last week centers on where nies, Barber said, and the number is Novi Interior Systems plaintis in an intellectual property expected rise to rise substantially. 1681 Harmon (built- General Development Co. Recaro Child Signature Associates, Lee & 90,000 or patent infringement dispute can “Cars are becoming computers on 5 to-suit), Auburn Hills LLC, Southfield Saftey Associates le a lawsuit. Under current U.S. law, wheels,” Barber said. 28405 Van Dyke Ave., Neiss Management, New York General Motors Signature Associates, CBRE 88,779 6 Warren C City LLC Inc. a plainti may le a patent infringe- e Eastern District of Michigan ment suit essentially in any district court could see as many as three Haggerty Corporate Dembs Development Inc., Autoneum Lee & Associates, Mohr 85,000 7 Park, Novi Farmington Hills Partners where the defendant does business. dozen more patent cases if the high Victor Corporate Stuart Frankel Development Realty Signature Associates, CBRE 68,065 e result? e rise of the Eastern court changes the rule, Barber said. 8 Park, Livonia Co., Troy Development Co. Inc. District of Texas federal court. e Marc Lorelli, partner and co-chair Bank of America Sovereign Partners LLC, New Dickinson Wright CBRE Inc. 67,798 court is nicknamed the “Rocket of the intellectual property litigation 9 Building, Troy York City PLLC Docket” because it’s become home practice at Brooks Kushman PC in American Center, Redico LLC, Southfield Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Redico LLC 66,210 to a vast majority of patent infringe- Southeld, said it’s unlikely to in- 10 Southfield D Weiss PC ment lawsuits, marketed by quick crease the number of patent attor- Troy Officentre, Osprey Management Co., Dialog Direct Friedman Integrated Real 64,484 proceedings — roughly 18 months neys locally, however. 11 Troy D Troy Estate Solutions LLC compared with more than three “Patent litigators practice all over Auburn Ridge Office Etkin LLC, Southfield BorgWarner Inc. Advocate Advisors of 63,456 years at other courts — and plain- the country,” Lorelli said. “I don’t 12 Center, Auburn Michigan, Etkin ti-friendly juries thanks to its small- think it’s going to change things dra- Hills D town sensibilities in rural Texas. matically for attorneys.” However, the Supreme Court is ex- e ruling could, though, have the List is based on information from CoStar Group Inc., CPIX, Crain's research, from published information or as pected to rule against venue shopping, opposite impact in east Texas. submitted by brokers, advisers or property owners. Crain's has tried to list all brokers involved in a transaction, forcing plaintis to try cases in the dis- “Last time I was in Tyler, Texas, I but in some cases brokers may have been omitted. Some leases were omitted because of a lack of complete information. trict of the defendant’s headquarters walked into a CVS after court, suit B or major operations, said Joseph Bar- on, of course,” Lorelli said. “ e guy Lease. ber, an IP attorney for Royal Oak-based at the counter said, ‘Let me guess. C Expansion. Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC. Patent attorney?’ ” D Lease renewal. “ e U.S. court system is set up to Dustin Walsh: (313) 446-6042 give the defendant an advantage of Twitter: @dustinpwalsh LIST RESEARCHED BY KIRK PINHO

CRAIN'S LIST: INDUSTRIAL LEASES THERE IS NO SINGLE TRUTH IN WAR Ranked by square feet Square Rank Building Owner, owner city Tenant Broker feet 2625 Tyler Road, Ypsilanti Insite Real Estate LLC, General Motors LLC CBRE Inc. 1,593,000 1 Oak Brook, Ill. Livonia West Commerce Center, Ashley Capital, Amazon.com Commerce Real Estate 1,009,292 2 Livonia B New York City Solutions; Signature Associates Livonia Corporate Center, Livonia B Ashley Capital, Ford Motor Co. Newmark Grubb 754,744 3 New York City Knight Frank; CBRE, Inc. 26090 23 Mile Road, Chesterfield Metro International Topvalco Inc. Signature Associates, 711,547 4 Township Trade Services, Allen Park JLL 128 Spring Road, Ypsilanti C Angstrom Capital Howard Ternes Signature Associates 600,000 5 Holdings LLC, Taylor Packaging Co. Plymouth Road Technical Center, Ashley Capital, Roush Enterprises Ashley Capital 467,700 6 Livonia D New York City Livonia Distribution Center, Livonia Ashley Capital, KUKA Systems North CBRE Inc., Newmark 384,256 7 New York City America LLC Grubb Knight Frank 8650 Mt. Elliott, Detroit Metro International ArcelorMittal Signature Associates, 313,618 8 Trade Services, Allen Park Tailored Blanks Scavone LLC Acclaimed filmaker, KEN BURNS, Plymouth Oaks Business Park, Lexington Realty Trust, Tower Automotive Advocate Advisors of 290,133 comes to Detroit 9 Plymouth C New York City Operations USA I Michigan LLC WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2O17 @ 7:30 PM Livonia Distribution Center, Ashley Capital, Hollingsworth Colliers International; 277,875 10 Livonia B New York City Logistics Group CBRE Inc. Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor Warren Business Center East, Ashley Capital, Lipari Foods Ashley Capital 260,151 11 Warren B New York City Brownstown Business Center, Ashley Capital, ThyssenKrupp Colliers International 207,270 Ken Burns will visit the Michigan Theater 12 Brownstown Township E New York City Industrial Services Inc. kfgi\m`\n_`jcXk\jkÓcd# The Vietnam War, NA, Inc airing on PBS stations nationwide in J\gk\dY\i)'(.%?\n`ccXcjf[`jZljj List is based on information from CoStar Group Inc., CPIX, Crain's research, from published information or as jfd\f]_`jlgZfd`e^gifa\ZkjXe[_`j submitted by brokers, advisers or property owners. Crain's has tried to list all brokers involved in a transaction, nfibXjXÓcddXb\iXe[_`jkfi`Xe% but in some cases brokers may have been omitted. Some leases were omitted because of a lack of complete K`Zb\kjkfk_`j\m\ekXi\('Xe[Xi\ information. XmX`cXYc\efnXkmichtheater.org% B New lease. =fidfi\`e]fidXk`feXYflkk_\Ócd# C Lease renewal. visit dptv.org/vietnam D Renewal plus expansion. E Lease renewal - Industrial.

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CRAIN'S LIST: LOCAL SALES Ranked by price Square Price Rank Building Buyer Seller Broker/advisers feet Acres Units Rooms ($000,000) 150 West Jefferson, Redico LLC, Piedmont Office None 500,000 NA NA NA $81.5 1 Detroit Southfield Realty Trust, Johns Creek, Ga. Riverfront Towers, Image Capital Riverfront Tower Berkadia NA NA 557 NA $79.5 2 Detroit LLC, New York Holding LLC, City Detroit Troy Marriott, Troy Jake Porritt, Wheelock Street Hadidi Capital NA NA NA 350 $68.0 3 Samir Al-Hadidi, Capital LLC, Southfield Greenwich, Conn. INAUGURAL 2017-18 SEASON Fairlane East, Monarch Trilogy Real Estate NA NA NA 244 NA $31.3 Dearborn Investment and Group, Chicago 4 Management Group, Franktown, Colo. 2860 Clark St., Lexington Realty General Angelic Real Estate 210,000 NA NA NA $29.7 5 Detroit Trust, New York Development Co. LLC City LLC, Southfield 39550 W. 13 Mile Ryder Integrated Northern Equities CBRE Inc. 149,000 NA NA NA $27.5 6 Road, Novi Systems, Miami Group, Farmington Hills Hilton Garden Inn, GFI Capital CW Capital Asset Newmark Grubb NA NA NA 198 $25.6 Detroit Resources Group Management LLC, Knight Frank 7 Inc., New York Bethesda, Md. City Fairlane Green, Lormax-Stern Sovereign Capital Mid-America Real 119,000 NA NA NA $21.1 Phase II, Allen Park Development Management Estate Group 8 Co., Bloomfield Group, San Diego Hills Fairlane Meadows, Time Equities Ramco- Mid-America Real 157,225 NA NA NA $20.4 Dearborn Inc., New York Gershenson Estate Group 9 City Properties Trust, Farmington Hills City Center, Troy Unicorp National LNR Property Inc., CBRE Inc. 297,530 NA NA NA $20.0 10 Developments Miami Beach, Fla. Inc., Orlando Livonia Plaza, Phillips Edison & Ramco- Mid-America Real 137,391 NA NA NA $19.8 Livonia Co. LLC, Gershenson Estate Group 11 Cincinnati Properties Trust, Farmington Hills 10725 Harrison, Founders Adar Realty Newmark Grubb 312,000 NA NA NA $19.5 12 Romulus Properties LLC, (Romulus) ADA Knight Frank Minneapolis Compliant LP Johnson Controls STAG Industrial C-III Asset Farbman Group 268,000 NA NA NA $18.7 13 Building, Warren Inc., Boston Management LLC, Irving, Texas Marquette Adient US LLC, Carlos Slim Helu, CBRE Inc. 162,780 NA NA NA $16.9 14 Building, Detroit Detroit Mexico City Clawson Center, Viking Partners Kimco Realty, Mid-America Real 130,224 NA NA NA $15.3 15 Clawson LLC, Cincinnati New Hyde Park, Estate Group N.Y. Sunnybrook Golf & Mitchell Plastics, Sterling Group, Signature Associates NA 144 NA NA $14.9 16 Bowling Inc. site, Ontario Detroit Sterling Heights 2469 Executive Valiant Durr Systems, Signature Associates 187,197 NA NA NA $13.9 Hills Blvd., Auburn International Bietigheim- 17 Hills Inc., Troy Bissingen, Germany Troy Place, Troy Sanders Group Michigan Friedman Integrated NA NA 168 NA $13.7 LLC, Southfield Condominium Real Estate Solutions 18 Corp., St. Clair LLC Shores Maynard Street MJW Investments Garry Post, Robert Signature Associates 49,250 NA NA NA $12.0 19 Apartments, Ann Inc., Santa Hill, Ann Arbor Arbor Monica, Calif. 1717 Fort St., Kerkstra Precast Huron Valley Signature Associates,361,288 NA NA NA $11.0 20 Trenton Inc., Grandville Steel Corp., Van Colliers Buren Township International Inc. 801 & 803 W. Big 791,801& 803 W. Los Alisos 360, CBRE Inc. 127,000 NA NA NA $10.8 21 Beaver Road, Troy Big Beaver Road, LLC, Laguna LLC Niguel, Calif. 2950 S. State St., Wickfield MRE Investments, Collers International 39,792 NA NA NA $10.2 22 Ann Arbor Properties LLC, LLC, Ann Arbor Inc. Ann Arbor 43155-43157 Nine RosDev Group, Frank W. Kerr Co., Signature Associates 318,390 NA NA NA $9.8 23 Mile Road, Novi Montreal Novi 909 N. Sheldon Fuyao Asset Grand Sakwa, Signature Associates,526,540 NA NA NA $9.5 Road, Plymouth Management Farmington Hills Asia America Realty 24 LLC, Moraine, Ohio Meijer Drive MD Research Friedman Friedman Integrated122,833 NA NA NA $9.4 Industrial Park, Park LLC, Troy Integrated Real Real Estate Solutions DON’T MISS YOUR OPPORTUNITY 25 Troy Estate Solutions LLC LLC, Farmington Hills BECOME A MEMBER TODAY

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Phillips has been with the ‚ rm CEO of Edelman, will discuss the 2017 Edelman mayor’s o ce since July of 2011. Marina Shahinyan, CPA Trust Barometer and actions business leaders in a newly cre- Senior Associate can take to climb back from a position of deteri- ated position ACCOUNTING orated trust, and ultimately restore belief in a of neighbor- The Siegfried Group system that too many believe has failed them. hood story- Marina Shahinyan, CPA, MotorCity Casino Hotel, Detroit. $45 members; Matt Helms teller. Foley Arielle Weir joins Siegfried’s Detroit $55 guests of members; $75 nonmembers. will focus on Market as a Senior Manager. She applies her Senior Associate Website: econclub.org. creating a new platform to deliver comprehensive technical knowledge and neighborhood news and informa- The Siegfried Group individual leadership skills to provide strategic tion online and via a print publi- Arielle Weir joins Siegfried’s insights and e€ ective, timely resolutions. She Calendar guidelines. Visit crainsdetroit.com cation, said Peter Kadushin, Dug- Detroit Market as a Senior attended the University of Michigan, where and click “Events” near the top of the home gan’s communications director. Associate. Weir embraces she earned her Master of Accounting, and page. Then, click “Submit Your Events” from Matt Helms, a longtime report- new opportunities and brings people together Yerevan State University of Economics in the drop-down menu that will appear. Fill out er at the Detroit Free Press, has by inspiring trust and leading with courage. Armenia, where she earned her Bachelor of the submission form, then click “Submit been hired as director of special Weir earned her Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration. Most recently, event” at the bottom of the page. projects and research in the may- accounting at Michigan State University and Shahinyan was a Manager at PwC. More Calendar items can be found at or’s o ce, Kadushin said. was most recently a Senior Associate at EY. crainsdetroit.com/events. CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // APRIL 3, 2017 19

AUTO Share your FROM PAGE 3 success department, wrote in the March 15 notice to Integon that seven-day with custom policies “as a whole are designed to ensure that coverage will expire in Reprints, just seven days, after which drivers are likely to experience periods of E-prints interrupted coverage without man- and more! datory no-fault insurance.” Yousif said state prohibition of Contact [email protected] • (212) 210- 0750 seven-day insurance plans could lead to the closure of the L.A. Insur- ance’s 30 stores in Detroit, which populate the city’s main corridors. “It’s going to really hurt the busi- JOB FRONT ness. All the stores in Detroit are probably going to end up closing,” Yousif said in an interview. “e RETIREMENT SYSTEMS OF THE people who were buying the sev- CITY OF DETROIT Joint Personnel Committee en-day (plan) are going to end up 500 Woodward Ave, Suite 3000 buying more fake insurance because Detroit, Michigan 48226 they can’t a ord real insurance.” JOB TITLE: Executive Director - Retirement Systems It’s unclear how many seven-day SALARY: $150,000 - $200,000 auto insurance policies are sold in (Starting salary is dependent upon qualifications and experience) Michigan annually, because state CHAD LIVENGOOD/CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS The City of Detroit has two distinct and separate retirement agencies don't track sales data. L.A. Insurance has 30 stores in Detroit that sell seven-day auto insurance plans, systems: the General Retirement System; and the Police and e 30 independently-owned including this one at 13002 Gratiot Ave. Fire Retirement System. The legal and fiduciary responsibility for the general L.A. Insurance franchises in Detroit administration, management, and proper operation of the Retirement Systems, and for making effective their provisions, is vested in each Retirement System’s Board of Trustees. each sell between 50 and 75 sev- Yousif said L.A. Insurance’s cus- least 2011, according to public re- The Retirement Systems provide services and benefits to approximately 9000 active en-day auto insurance plans every tomers buy seven-day coverage be- cords. members and 12,000 retirees and beneficiaries. Currently, combined Retirement System month, Yousif said. cause they can’t a ord six-month or Yousif said Integon is the only na- assets are in excess of $4 billion. Secretary of State Ruth Johnson’s 12-month plans, which top $5,000 tional carrier that still writes sev- Each Retirement System is comprised of two distinct plans: a legacy traditional defined oce found 90,701 drivers submit- per vehicle annually in some Detroit en-day auto insurance plans in benefit plan and a new hybrid defined benefit plan. Information about each Retirement System is available on the RSCD website at www.RSCD.org. ted paper seven-day policies be- zip codes. Michigan. Please refer to the website for the full job description and benefits. tween July 2015 and June 2016, ac- Insurers blame Michigan’s un- Titan Insurance stopped writing Submit information for this job posting to: [email protected] cording to a report submitted to limited personal injury medical seven-day plans in Michigan on state lawmakers last month. benets for the cost of auto insur- March 1, according to Yousif. MISCELLANEOUS POSITIONS AVAILABLE But that gure does not include ance in Detroit and across the state, In the March 15 notice to Integon, week-long insurance plans that may which is higher than most other ma- the state insurance ocial said the have been submitted to the state jor U.S. cities and states. seven-day plan violates multiple SURVEY electronically by insurers, said Fred “e only reason we o er it in sections of Michigan’s auto insur- Woodhams, spokesman for the Sec- Michigan is we can’t sell a plan ance laws. ANALYZE retary of State’s oce. that’s $800 down,” said Yousif, “e seven-day policy term … Director Johnson wants a change in state whose Royal Oak-based company cannot satisfy the 30, 20 or 10-day MATCH Community Relations law forbidding seven-day policies sells insurance in nine states for na- minimum statutory periods appli- Eastern Michigan University, a for purposes of vehicle registration tional carriers that include Progres- cable to every insurer termination/ metropolitan University serving over and requiring a minimum of 90 days sive, GMAC Insurance and Titan In- nonrenewal of an individual no- 21,000 students, seeks an experienced of coverage to get a license plate and surance, a subsidiary of Nationwide fault insurance policy, because the community relations leader to serve as Director, Community Relations. tags, Woodhams said. Insurance Co. policy’s term ends and coverage ter- This position oversees community ere are, however, “legitimate” Integon, a division of Winston-Sa- minates before any of these required relations and local government outreach CrainsDetroit.com/JobConnect | uses of week-long insurance poli- lem, N.C.-based National General notices can be e ected,” Fossitt and establishes ongoing relationships cies, Woodhams said, like transport- Insurance Group, has been selling wrote. with key community stakeholders, including leaders of non-profit, K-12, ing a summer vehicle to a northern its week-long “Jump Start Policy” in- Chad Livengood: (313) 446-1654 business, and local government Michigan cottage. surance plan in Michigan since at Twitter: @ChadLivengood REAL institutions in southeast Michigan. To learn more about the job and to ESTATE apply online, please visit: New Harbor Health begins under new ownership http://www.emich.edu/jobs INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY By Jay Greene touch,” said omas, former CEO of Health System. [email protected] Molina Healthcare of Michigan Last June, Harbor’s Medicaid ROMEO, MI Five months after Harbor Health from 2008 to 2010. “I always put membership totaled 7,973, up from 75 Ac. Vacant Ind’l zoning, poss. multi- MARKET Plan in Detroit announced plans to myself in the day of a life of a mem- 6,515 on Dec. 31, 2015, and 3,300 in resid’l or comm’l. opp. All Util’s. 1,334 sell its Medicaid and Medicare ber. ... ere are a number of social 2014. Its Medicare Advantage plan Rd. Frontage, 1/2 Mi. from X-way exit. HMO to Trusted Healthcare of determinants to health care. e membership was only 636 mem- Call George @ 586-531-2436 PLACE Washington, D.C., the $16 million idea of a wellness center is to work bers, up from 126 in 2015. [email protected] deal has closed, e ective Feb. 28, closely with members on activities Duncan said Harbor’s Medicaid INDUSTRIAL SERVICES said company ocials. they have in daily living.” and Medicare membership has The Crain’s Reader C.W. JENNINGS Harbor's newly hired CEO, Jesse Over three years, Harbor Health grown since last year and expects to INDUSTRIAL EXCHANGE omas, told plans to hire more than 70 employ- increase over the years as it devel- 26.5% influence the purchase of Global Industrial Consulting Crain's that the ees, including nurses, case manag- ops new plans and serves its cur- office/industrial and commerical space. Construction • Acquisitions health plan will ers and educators, to sta the well- rent members. Help them find you by advertising in Exporting • Financing embark on an ness centers, said omas Duncan, omas, who was hired March Crain’s Real Estate Section. (855) 707-1944 ambitious Trusted’s CEO and a Detroit native. 22, said he is still in the evaluation 313.446.6086 • FAX: 313.446.034 7 growth plan Harbor's administrative oce has process of Harbor Health and will E-Mail: cdbclassif [email protected] LEGAL SERVICES - IMMIGRATION over the next about 30 employees. take time to determine immediate Immigration Law Firm, AV-rated three years to Harbor Health was formerly needs of the Medicaid HMO. Antone, Casagrande & Adwers, P.C. add ve well- owned by Tenet Healthcare Corp., “I want to spend time with the Dedicated to Business, Employment, ness center parent of Detroit Medical Center. team and see where the areas of op- and Family Immigration Matters clinics in As part of restructuring, Tenet de- portunity are. ere are always ar- 31555 W. 14 Mile Rd. Ste. 100,

Jesse Thomas: Wayne, Oak- cided last year to exit the health in- eas of opportunity,” he said. “We Farmington Hills, MI 48334 To embark on land and Ma- surance business. Tenet inherited want to get the right care at the (248) 406-4100 www.antone.com growth plan comb counties. Harbor Health, which formerly was right time. We need to work with “In an era of called ProCare Health Plan Inc., community partners in the three Call or email today for information on a custom advertising plan! high tech, the missing ingredient in when it acquired Detroit Medical counties to have those wellness [email protected] the patient experience is high Center in 2013 from Vanguard centers geographically dispersed.” 313.446.6068 20 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // APRIL 3, 2017

GILBERT FROM PAGE 1 Gilbert still In our hourlong conversation, Gilbert never did connect the dots. can’t get over He never did tell me (nor has he told any journalist, as far as I can tell) his son’s how his Russian grandfather warped his father, or how his father, the own- composure. er of a bar at Seven Mile Road and Woodward, treated Gilbert’s two “I mean this, half-siblings and brother. He did say he was determined to be and I know closer to his own ve children: “It’s al- most like correcting course, and it’s I’m his father, like correcting nature — getting back to equilibrium.” Gilbert also suggest- but he is the ed his upbringing played an indirect single-most role in his business success. “When you talk to successful en- happy human trepreneurs,” he said, “95 percent of them come from a messed-up child- being I know.” hood.”

Nick Gilbert

he oldest child of Dan and Jen- nifer Gilbert is 20-year-old Nick, Twho was born with neuro bromato- sis, a nerve disorder that causes tu- mors to grow anywhere in the body. Nick’s tumors grow in his head. Diag- nosed at 15 months, Nick has been on and o chemotherapy for 15 years or so. He had life-saving brain sur- gery at age 10. He is nearly blind. I visited Nick at Michigan State University, where he is a junior studying business. DAVID DOW/NBAE VIA GETTY IMAGES “He’s the best dad ever,” he said of Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert enjoys a private moment with his son Nick aer winning the number one overall pick in the 2011 NBA Dra. his father, Dan. “He’s my best friend.” Such words seem trite unless en came the hard reality of the never understood when people Dan Gilbert over everything my dad has built.” you’ve spent time with Nick, a smart, work ahead. “I talked to a lot of were arrogant, because there is al- I raised a fatherly eyebrow. Nick witty, perpetually happy young man people whose kids have cancer, and ways an ultimate equalizer that ev- ick’s father will never forget quickly added, “(My dad) says I’m who found some measure of fame you really focus on the process of eryone is going to die. Why are you that day a decade ago. e wa- going to have to work for it. He’ll put representing his father’s Cleveland how-to and the next steps,” he said. better than him? You’re all going to Ntery growth was not easy to remove. me in the mailroom.” Cavaliers at the 2011 and 2013 NBA Gilbert interviewed doctors be dirt, so when things like this “e surgeon told me it was like tak- ere is one thing Nick de nitely drafts, where the team won the lot- around the country, read every- happen, it reminds you to keep ing out the inside of a grapefruit inherited from his father: passion tery to pick rst. thing he could about the condition, your head up — there are things with tweezers,” Gilbert said. and persistence. “When I want After the 2011 draft, a reporter poured millions of dollars into re- you don’t control.” A few minutes later, the father something,” he said, “I annoy the asked Nick to explain why his father search and support for those with choked up telling me about his son’s shit out of people until I get it.” considered him a hero. “I mean,” the the disease, and joined the Chil- Nick Gilbert reaction to the surgery. “Let me give 14-year-old said, “what’s not to like?” dren’s Tumor Foundation board. you this crazy story, and I don’t want Dan Gilbert Nick told me there’s nothing not In other words, he treated it like ick holds his head high. “is to start crying but ...” And then he to like about his father, who made it a business problem — throwing ev- shit’s serious, but I’ve got the told me about the ight home after asked Dan what Nick wants to do home for bedtime most nights and erything he had at it. “Yeah, maybe Nright people behind me,” he told the Washington, D.C., operation, when he grows up. He nodded to a found time to coach his kids’ sports part of that is an escape because me. “My family and my doctors are and how Nick refused to feel sorry Isea of Quicken cubicles outside the teams. “He had my back,” Nick told you don’t want to feel all the bad terri c.” for himself. Unlike his father, the son glass walls of his oce and said, “He me. “He’d get crazy with the refs.” stu,” he said. His father calls him the most re- never asked, “Why me?” just got into the MSU business school At MSU, Nick gets help navigating For Gilbert, a master of his uni- silient and optimistic person he Still, Dan wanted to help Nick so I think he wants to be a part of this his course load from school disabilities verse, Nick’s condition was a re- knows — and Nick takes pride in make sense of his rare condition. So in some way, shape or form.” specialist Angela Sebald. She told me minder of life’s limits. “What does that impression. “My dad always he told his son, “You drew a card, But the father said he won’t let his Nick constantly texts and talks with his money really mean? All the money says I look at chemo as being no big and it was just an unlucky card. You kids be treated special at home or at father about sports and school. in the world can’t x this thing he’s deal.” can’t really have a say in the cards work, because he knows entitlement Recently, Nick called Dan for ad- got. Maybe one day, but it can’t Even when he speaks in clichés, you get. You just get a say in how you has ruined any number of rich chil- vice on a sports management exam now.” Nick is sincere and serious. “You live play them.” dren. Humility awaits Nick and his involving the salary cap system. After Later, he told me Nick’s genetic the life you’re given,” he shrugged. Nick didn’t need to hear that. At siblings should they choose to join 45 minutes, Dan ended the conversa- disease “served as a gut check. I “at’s just the attitude I was born 10, he already knew life’s game is the family company. “ey have to tion with a joke aimed at curbing his with. You gotta do what you gotta best played with a con dent smile. start at the bottom,” Gilbert said. son’s high expectations by acknowl- do. Gotta get shit done and move “ere is only one card I could draw Which is not a scary thing at the edging them. “No pressure,” the father Nick holds his on.” where I have a Dad who owns an Gilbert household, because the fa- said, according to Angela and Nick, head high. Nick says he got his optimism NBA team,” Nick joked to Dan. “So ther preaches to his kids that success both of whom were on speaker phone from his father. “He says he fails ev- I’m pretty good overall.” cannot be measured in dollars or with Dan. “But you better ace this.” “This shit’s ery day, but he nds success in ev- Gilbert still can’t get over his son’s promotions. “For a lot of people, “You represent the Cavs and De- ery failure.” composure. “I mean this, and I know when they do all these things — troit and the Gilbert family,” Dan serious, but At age 10, Nick underwent eight I’m his father, but he is the single-most when they do this or that, when they continued. Nick and Angela laughed. hours of life-saving surgery to re- happy human being I know.” say, ‘If I get to here or there, then I “You could almost hear Dan I’ve got the move a tumor from the base of his will be happy.’ at is just not true.” smile,” she said. brain. His father told him about the Nick Gilbert A truly happy person is blessed right people need for emergency surgery on, of with the innocence to never fear fail- Dan Gilbert all days, his birthday. asked the 20-year-old what he ure and the resilience to never lose behind me. My “When I had brain surgery, all I hopes to do with his MSU degree. hope, according to Dan Gilbert. By hen Nick was diagnosed with could think about was, ‘When I I“A lot,” he replied. I pressed the those measures, Nick Gilbert is al- the rare disease, Dan Gilbert’s family and my wake up, I’ll get whatever I want.’” question until he narrowed it down: ready an extraordinary success. W rst reaction was typical of most par- Did you? marketing, he said, ideally in the ar- “Oh man, he is truly my hero,” fa- ents: “Why me? I mean, I feel blessed doctors are He laughed. “Basically, yes.” eas of sports, casinos, commercial ther said of son. “He is so fricking otherwise, but you go through that.” terric.” real estate and music. “Maybe take happy.” CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // APRIL 3, 2017 21

“It seemed like that was the PROJECT missing part ... FROM PAGE 3 Initially the vision of a Central High principal, the business had to new innovation center will be located in the Durfee come back, and Elementary-Middle School building next door to Central High School after grades K-8 move to the there had to be Independent Bank is proud high school in June. some jobs for to partner with the Detroit The Durfee center will go well beyond previous Home Mortgage program. Life Remodeled projects. The expansive school will people.” be converted into a community hub with a gymnasi- Lou Toarmina um and auditorium for public use, on-the-job-train- ing for high school students, entrepreneur education Toarmina’s has made a commitment to open a lo- and new business investment through a developing cally owned location in every neighborhood where social investment fund. Life Remodeled works. The first opened in mid- Aside from those programs, early plans envision a March in the Denby neighborhood. The second fran- maker space, new recreation center and a multipur- chise will open on the new center’s first floor. pose auditorium with the potential to convert to a Toarmina is waiving license and royalty fees for market space on Saturdays where residents can buy those locations and asking family, friends and busi- Member FDIC and sell things grown in the community. ness acquaintances to serve as “donor investors,” covering startup costs for the new businesses in ex- Investment fund change for a 10 percent return. New licensees keep their profit, but the percentage that usually gets paid Revitalizing Detroit! A group of Jewish alumni of Central High are pull- to Toarmina’s for royalties goes instead to pay inves- As a participating lender, ing together like-minded investors to create a fund to tors. Once that debt is paid, Toarmina said he envi- we offer a variety of • Personalized Service spark new business creation in the community, said sions the 4-percent royalties possibly funding subse- solutions that can assist • Home Renovation* Romy Kochan, president and managing partner of quent locations in other Life Remodeled in financing homes in • New Home Purchase* the fund’s developer, Gingras Global Inc., which neighborhoods. the City of Detroit. • Refinancing Available* plans to open a location in the new center to both manage the fund and measure tenant engagements More tenants to come with students. The fund will provide high-risk, early-stage and Life Remodeled is also talking with several others second-stage funding, Kochan said, with a goal of about bringing programs to the center, according to Joe Lockwood raising $2 million to $5 million in the first round. Lambert, including Build Institute and Bamboo, De- Senior Residential The aim? To build on the job-training and entre- troit Training Center, Junior Achievement of South- Loan Officer *Loans subject to 201 W. Big Beaver Rd., Ste. 201 preneurial support offered at the new center. eastern Michigan, Cleary University and The Em- program eligibility. Troy, MI 48084 “It’s unusual (to put) private capital that’s not powerment Plan. Contact lender P: 248.918.5961 for details. foundation money into a community like this that no Typically, the nonprofit brings about $5 million of C: 248.613.2234 longer has a commercial base,” she said. investment to a neighborhood with support from [email protected] Businesses left the neighborhood long ago, but the corporations, nonprofits and churches, foundations www.independentbank.com/mortgage/jlockwood locals believe it’s possible to bring business back, and individuals. This year Lambert estimates the in- Kochan said. vestment will be at least $2.5 million cash and $5 mil- IndependentBank.com | Equal housing lenddeer. “These students who have been left behind ... will lion to $7 million in in-kind materials and volunteer now have an idea of what’s possible for them,” she labor donated by local companies. said. e list of organizations supporting Life Remod- eled’s eorts is long, with names including: Bodman Commitment to create jobs PLC, Barton Malow Co., Detroit Historical Society, BASF SE, Michigan Economic Development Corp. and As it waits for the end of the school year when Michigan Environmental Council, Taubman Centers work can begin on Durfee, Life Remodeled has been Inc., Marathon Petroleum Corp., Wallside Windows, IS EVERYTHING. recruiting tenants to bring hands-on educational Ikea, Lowes, Michigan CAT, Weingartz Supply Co., programs that enhance career paths for students at Michigan Muslim Community Council, United Way Central and other Detroit high schools. for Southeast Michigan and Greening of Detroit. Westland-based Toarmina’s Pizza Inc. is among Though corporations have been the biggest sup- the first to commit to space in the community inno- porters in previous years, several are considering vation center. larger cash contributions of $500,000 or more this Founder and President Lou Toarmina said he has year, Lambert said. watched over the past few years as Detroit neighbor- The project is drawing high interest from corpo- hoods changed after Life Remodeled came into rate supporters “because they see it has strong po- them. But he still didn’t see job opportunities. tential to … make more impact in education and job “It seemed like that was the missing part ... busi- creation than any project we’ve ever done,” he said. ness had to come back, and there had to be some Sherri Welch: 313 (446-1694) jobs for people,” he said. Twitter: @SherriWelch

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Editor-in-Chief Keith E. Crain Executive Vice President KC Crain But also hats, shawarma, and Jedi Miggy Publisher/Editor Ron Fournier, (313) 446-1674 or [email protected] Group Publisher Mary Kramer, (313) 446-0399 By Bill Shea the Year, pitcher Michael Fulmer. or [email protected] [email protected] e team su ered a setback when Managing Editor Michael Lee, (313) 446-1630 e Detroit Tigers’ strategy to re- right  elder J.D. Martinez, 29, or [email protected] Director, Crain Custom Content Kristin Bull, verse a four-year attendance slide sprained a ligament in his right foot (313) 446-1608 or [email protected] begins with winning games, but also in March, and he’s isn’t scheduled to Product Manager/Marketing Kim Winkler, (313) relies on a wild mix of specialty ball- have his cast removed until today. 446-6764 or [email protected] Deputy Product Manager/Digital Carlos Portocarrero caps, deep dish coney dog pizzas, He likely will be sidelined until late (313) 446-6056 or [email protected] shawarma, and a tiny Miguel Cabre- April or early May, depending on Membership Director Nancy Hanus, (313) 446-1621 or ra dressed as Jedi knight. what the doctor’s  nd once the cast [email protected] News Editor Beth Reeber Valone, (313) 446-5875 While Detroit returns a roster is o . or [email protected] largely the same as the one that won As a team, the Tigers were third- Special Projects Editor Amy Elliott Bragg, 86 games a year ago, and was best among MLB’s 30 clubs with a (313) 446-1646 or [email protected] Design and Copy Editor Beth Jachman, (313) 446-0356 knocked out of the playo hunt on team .267 batting average and were or [email protected] the season’s  nal weekend, the front fourth with a .772 OPS average, Research and Data Editor Sonya Hill, (313) 446-0402 o ce is keenly aware that nearly or [email protected] which is a combination of on-base Newsroom (313) 446-0329, FAX (313) 446-1687, 7,000 fewer fans a game came to Co- plus slugging percentages. In other TIP LINE (313) 446-6766 merica Park in 2016 compared with Slide in Tigers words, despite the perception of an 2013. attendance anemic o ense, Detroit could get on REPORTERS Tyler Cli€ ord, breaking news. (313) 446-1612 or e Tigers averaged 31,173 fans Detroit has seen its base in 2016. ey didn’t score at tcli˜ [email protected] per game last season — better than per-game attendance that pace, however, recording 750 Annalise Frank, breaking news. (313) 446-0416 or the Major League baseball average of decline by nearly 7,000 runs, 11th-best in baseball and sixth [email protected] Jay Greene, senior reporter Covers health care. 30,097 — but to stanch further de- fans per game over the best in the American League. Still, (313) 446-0325 or [email protected] clines the team is deploying a mar- past four years. they scored one or no runs in nearly Chad Livengood Covers Detroit rising. (313) 446-1654 or keting strategy that extols the enjoy- 19 percent of their games. Of their [email protected]  2016: 2,493,859 ment of a day at the ballpark, its games in which they scored a single Kurt Nagl Breaking news. (313) 446-0337 or knagl@ (31,173 per game average) crain.com accessibility, and value. e market- run, they were 1-17. Kirk Pinho Covers real estate. (313) 446-0412 or ing and promotional e orts are in-  2015: 2,726,048 Perhaps the biggest obstacle in [email protected] Bill Shea, enterprise editor Covers the business of tended to bolster what is hoped to be (33,654 per game average) 2016 was the Cleveland Indians. De- sports. (313) 446-1626 or [email protected] a winning team. Wins, and a playo  2014: 2,917,209 troit lost 14 of 18 games against their Lindsay VanHulle, Lansing reporter. (517) 657-2204 run, are the chief drivers of atten- division rival, and was out-scored or [email protected] (36,014 per game average) Dustin Walsh, senior reporter Covers economic issues. dance. 106-71 by Cleveland, which went on  2013: 3,083,397 (313) 446-6042 or [email protected] Fans can be enticed to games with to the World Series. Sherri Welch, senior reporter Covers nonproš ts and (38,066 per game average) philanthropy. (313) 446-1694 or [email protected] perks, however. Bobblehead give- Beating Cleveland more often aways can goose gate numbers by could help keep the stands  lled. ADVERTISING several thousand, and among this BILL SHEA/CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS An analysis by Crain’s of the Ti- Sales Inquiries (313) 446-6032; FAX (313) 393-0997 year’s bobblehead promotions will A giant Victor Martinez bobblehead welcomes guests to the Tiger Club at Comerica gers’ player spending compared Director of Sales Lisa Rudy Senior Account Manager Katie Sullivan be superstar slugger Miguel Cabrera Park. with their record since 2011 revealed Advertising Sales Gerry Golinske, Sharon Mulroy, Diane made to look like “Star Wars” Jedi a growing  nancial ine ciency Owen character. e doll is still being de- that’s exacerbated by the three years ClassiŽ ed Sales Manager Angela Schutte, (313) 446-6051 signed, said Tigers Vice President of of attendance declines. With a $205.8 ClassiŽ ed Sales Lynn Calcaterra, (313) 446-6086 Marketing Ellen Zeringue. million payroll last season and 86 Events Manager Kacey Anderson Detroit has found that ticket bun- victories, the Tigers spent $2.39 mil- Marketing and Sales Promotions Manager Christina Fabugais-Dimovska dles, in which fans are guaranteed a lion on players for each win, com- Senior Art Director Sylvia Kolaski hat or T-shirt or other perk with the pared with $1.8 million on average Special Projects Coordinator Keenan Covington price of a ticket (rather than a give- for the rest of Major League Baseball. Sales Support Suzanne Janik Media Services Director Geof Innis away to the  rst X-number of fans In contrast, three of the four teams Media Services Manager Hussein Abdallah through the gate), have been e ec- in the American League and Nation- tive tools to maintain or increase at- al League championship series won CUSTOMER SERVICE tendance, Zeringue said. e team more cheaply than Detroit, too. e Main Number: Call (877) 824-9374 or [email protected] uses bundling mostly to aid low- Indians, who won 14 of 18 against Subscriptions $59 one year, $98 two years. Out of state, er-attended weekday games, she the Tigers last season, spent nearly $79 one year, $138 for two years. Outside U.S.A., add $48 per year to out-of-state rate for surface mail. Call (313) said. $1.2 million per victory less than De- 446-0450 or (877) 824-9374. is season, which begins today troit to win games in 2016. Single Copies (877) 824-9374 at Chicago and opens at Comerica TYLER CLIFFORD/CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS In the long-term, General Manag- Reprints (212) 210-0750; or Krista Bora at [email protected] Park on Friday, the Tigers have ex- Chicken shawarmas will be available at Detroit Tigers games at Comerica Park this er Al Avila is spending money and To Ž nd a date a story was published (313) 446-0406 panded the number of college season. making hires to grow the team’s ad- or e-mail [email protected] hat-ticket bundles to 11 games. e vanced analytics e orts as part of a

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Equipment are consolidating their Ford to add Detroit Digits e-commerce marketing and fulll- $350 million ment divisions in a new joint venture A numbers-focused look at last agreement. ey will work in a to previous local week’s headlines: 45,000-square-foot warehouse in Chestereld Township, which the investments $7.5 million companies aim to make operational The state loan an 8.4-acre by mid-April. ord Motor Co. will add $350 development in Brush Park J Detroit Medical Center received million in new investments headed up by Dan Gilbert federal approval for corrective ac- at two Michigan assembly received to complete a portion of tion in response to a surprise inspec- ISTOCK/GETTY IMAGES Fplants on top of previously pledged the City Modern project, which is tion in January in which Medicare Technology in Motion, Sept. 6-8 at Cobo Center in Detroit, will tout the spending. expected to cost more than $100 hospital inspectors found dirty in- innovative spirit of automakers, parts suppliers and tech companies. e automaker said Tuesday that million. struments, lack of sanitation and in- it will invest $200 million in its Flat sucient stang. Rock Assembly Plant for an ad- vanced data center. It will also spend 130 The number of employees OTHER NEWS: Technology in Motion $150 million at its Michigan Assem- HopCat plans to hire to sta‚ its bly Plant in Wayne, in addition to J Applications for a share of $3 mil- upcoming three-story Royal Oak planned at Cobo Center what was pledged two years ago as lion in grants are open for the fth restaurant and bar. The location is part of the automaker’s contract with annual Knight Arts Challenge De- A three-day, late-summer trade tion and a vice president at MSX set to open May 20. the UAW. troit from the John and James Knight show will tout Southeast Michigan International Inc. “It all happens e latest planned outlay at Flat Foundation. e program seeks out as a center of advanced automo- right here, and no one knows it.” Rock follows a $700 million spend- $350 million ideas that engage and enrich the city tive technology. MSX will present the summit in The amount Ford Motor Co. ing plan announced by CEO Mark through the arts. e innovative spirit of auto- partnership with Crain Communi- announced it will invest in two Fields in January. Both of this year’s J Michigan Supreme Court Justice makers, parts suppliers and tech cations Inc., publisher of Automo- Michigan assembly plants, on top announcements at Flat Rock — Robert Young plans to retire eective companies will be the focus of the tive News and Crain’s Detroit Busi- of previously allocated spending. which builds the Ford Mustang and April 30 and return to his former law rst Technology in Motion event, ness. Lincoln Continental — are separate rm, the Dickinson Wright rm. Sept. 6-8 at Cobo Center in Detroit. e rst day will feature media from a $400 million pledge for the J e Michigan Urban Farming Ini- e forum will showcase the re- presentations from exhibitors, factory that was part of the 2015 set to host a public exhibition next tiative will turn the site of a razed gion’s and the industry’s role in similar to an auto show press day. UAW deal. month at its basement gallery in De- home in Detroit’s North End neigh- shaping connected cars, autono- e second and third days will e automaker also rearmed a troit’s Eastern Market. e art incu- borhood into a rain water harvesting mous driving, new forms of mobil- include a conference with four $150 million investment in its Ro- bator provided three artists housing, cistern and recreational space, using ity and powertrains of the future. It panel discussions. meo Engine plant. tools and space for three months to $100,000 in corporate grants. will link startups and ride-sharing Speakers will include Matt Si- create art for the exhibition. J Dearborn-based ACCESS will companies with the Detroit area’s moncini, CEO of Lear Corp., and COMPANY NEWS: J An owner of Jolly Pumpkin Artisan honor renowned investor Mohamed traditional strengths in automo- Mike Ableson, vice president of Ales is expected to open a restaurant El-Erian and retired surgeon Rashid tive higher education and R&D. strategy at General Motors. Both J Avalon International Breads will in a vacant Midtown building as part Abdu, M.D., with its 2017 Arab A spotlight will be put on auto- companies are Technology in Mo- open the doors of its new Detroit of a $1 million Michigan Strategic American of the Year Awards at its motive employers’ success in hir- tion exhibitors and sponsors. café and bakery near Campus Marti- Fund loan. Other nancing for the 46th annual dinner next month. ing young talent. Plans call for a “Shark Tank”- us on April 14. It will serve made- project includes a $4.54 million loan “No matter where the technolo- like competition to wrap up the from-scratch sandwiches, breads, from Washington, D.C.-based Capi- OBITUARIES: gy is invented, it is rened, tested event. pizza and baked goods along with tal Impact Partners. and deployed within 100 miles of For information, contact Trisha coee, beer and wine. J Under Armour Inc. said it will J Detroit advertising icon Maurice Detroit,” said David Gra, a Stephens at trisha@timdetroit. J After 50 years in business, the Big open its 17,000-square-foot down- “Bud” Lezell, known as Mr. Belve- co-founder of Technology in Mo- com or (248) 829-6042. Boy restaurant on Jeerson Avenue town Detroit “Brand House” on April dere to millions of TV viewers and in Detroit near Belle Isle will be de- 13, oering apparel and footwear radio listeners, died of pneumonia at molished, with developer e Plat- with its latest technology and de- age of 95 in Sarasota, Fla. Lezell is Detroit Big Boy near Belle Isle to be demolished form LLC buying the 1-acre lot on signs. known for his 1960s and ’70s com- East Jeerson Avenue and East J A building in the Milwaukee Junc- mercial and ads that impressed After 50 years in businesses, the uprising, according to an archived Grand Boulevard from Curis Enter- tion neighborhood best known for viewers with its “Tyler 8-7100” Big Boy restaurant on Jeerson Av- news release from the company. It prises Inc. the colorful mural on its west side of phone number and catchphrase enue in Detroit near Belle Isle will is the only Big Boy in the city. J Big-time Michigan craft brewing a “bleeding rainbow” is under con- “We do good work.” be no more after one last hurrah e Platform has also entered companies Bell's Brewery Inc. and tract to Peter Cummings’ and Diet- J Longtime Detroit reporter and on Easter Sunday, traditionally an agreement with intention to ac- Founders Brewing Co. have con- rich Knoer’s Detroit-based e Plat- news anchor Rich Fisher died of can- one of the most popular for the quire ve parcels of land across the tracts to sell at the White Sox’s Guar- form LLC development group. e cer at 67. Fisher was an anchor and Warren-based chain of family din- street from the Detroit Land Bank anteed Rate Field this year, along Platform declined to comment on its reporter at WXYZ-TV for 12 years be- ers. Authority. e development plan with Goose Island Brewery of Chica- plans for the building. fore he moved to Detroit Fox aliate Detroit-based developer e there includes renovation of a for- go and Pabst Brewing Co., among J Weingartz Supply Co. and Ball WJBK-Channel 2. Platform LLC is buying the 1-acre mer nursing home designed by others. lot on East Jeerson Avenue and well-known architect Louis J e 21,000 square feet of retail East Grand Boulevard from Curis Kamper and built in 1898, as well space on the rst oor of the Park Enterprises Inc., a Detroit-based as rehabilitation of three other his- Shelton condominium building, real estate rm, according to a toric properties and new construc- which is 89 percent occupied, is up news release from e Platform. tion, according to the release. for sale in Midtown. Terms of the purchase were not re- e historic buildings across the J Detroit Surf Co. will move to a new leased. street will be turned into residen- space in Detroit’s Midtown in May e Platform plans to demolish tial and aordable housing, and after serving customers out of the the restaurant as part of a larger the empty parcels will be devel- Rust Belt Market in Ferndale for sev- project in the Islandview neigh- oped for retail and possibly for eral years. Owner Dave Tuzinowski borhood. e Platform, whose more residential space. said it was “time for our own retail co-principals are Peter Cummings e architect for the project is store.” and Dietrich Knoer, is involved in Detroit-based Hamilton Anderson J Five months after Harbor Health several other development proj- Associates. Plan in Detroit announced plans to ects in the city, including in the Plans for the land at the Big Boy sell its Medicaid and Medicare HMO Milwaukee Junction and Tech- site are not nalized, but in the in- to Trusted Healthcare of Washing- If you have an idea to engage and enrich Detroit through the arts, applications for a Town areas and the Fisher Build- terim after demolition of the build- ton, D.C., the $16 million deal has share of $3 million in grants are open for the Knight Arts Challenge Detroit. Busk in ing. ing, e Platform is weighing ev- closed, eective Feb. 28. the Cut, above, was a 2016 Knight Arts Challenge winner. To apply, candidates must e Jeerson Avenue Big Boy erything from a food truck court to J e rst round of this year’s Red submit a 150 word proposal about a compelling arts idea. The deadline to apply is location was founded by George a farmers market, a company Bull House of Art resident artists are April 28. Visit knightfoundation.org for more information. Curis in 1967 right after the Detroit spokesman said.