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JANUARY 9 - 15, 2017 Finding space State of at auto show mobility Executive Crain’s locates Michigan’s Director Rod best assets for keeping Alberts’ oor auto technology progress plan a “jigsaw moving. puzzle.” Special Report, Page 7 Page 3 SPECIAL REPORT NEWSMAKERS MARY KRAMER Group Publisher OF THE YEAR Leaving the rain’s Newsmakers of the Year made their impacts in a mul- titude of ways. Finding lead poisoning in Flint’s children, Best Job in then ghting on their behalf. Taking a drug developer pub- Clic. Sealing big deals, holding the corrupt accountable, putting Mich- Detroit igan on the path to mobility, and so much more. It’s taken nearly 28 years, but I’ve Tom Gores will appear and speak at Crain’s Newsmaker of the nally got a byline on Page 1 of Crain’s Detroit Business. e occa- Year luncheon Feb. 28 at MotorCity Casino Hotel SoundBoard. For sion: I wanted to help announce the more information, see crainsdetroit.com/newsmakerevent. appointment of my successor. Ron Fournier, who joined Crain’s MEET THE OTHER NEWSMAKERS OF THE YEAR last September, is BEGINNING ON PAGE 8 the new publish- Crain’s names er of Crain’s De- Ron Fournier as troit Business, publisher and adding responsi- editor. Tom Gores bilities for the Page 15 business side of Owner, Detroit Pistons our publication to his role as editor. By Bill Shea I’ve held both of those jobs, and com- [email protected] The Pistons move bined, they are simply the Best Job in After six years of being asked if is the splashiest in Detroit. he’d move the Detroit Pistons back Tom Gores’ wider But after 28 years, it’s time to allow downtown, team owner Tom Gores strategy of making a new generation of leadership to in November nally had a denitive business, civic and take over. I’m stepping aside from answer: Yes. philanthropic day-to-day management to focus on Since buying the National Basket- investments in new initiatives I’ve helped to create ball Association team along with the Detroit and and now want to nurture. More on Palace of Auburn Hills and other en- Michigan. that later. tertainment venues for $325 million Twenty-eight years in leadership at in 2011, Gores often elded ques- Wings in a proposed arena, talks got a single publication is rare in media tions about his desire to relocate the serious. Negotiations eventually these days. at’s one big advantage team from Oakland County to the yielded something that met Gores’ to working for a family-owned media city it called home from 1957 to 1978. approval, but the details haven’t company that takes a long-term view. Post-bankruptcy Detroit, or at been made public. I owe that tenure to the Crain family, least its central core along lower e deal still requires several gov- especially to Keith Crain. Woodward Avenue, was rebounding ernment approvals, but the plan It’s no wonder, then, that Keith with billions of dollars in new invest- now is that the Pistons will had a high regard for another pub- ment. It seemed only natural to move into Little Caesars lisher I held as a role model — the many that the Pistons should capi- Arena in time for the late Neal Shine of the Detroit Free talize on the renaissance, especially 2017-18 NBA season as Press. Shine had a 40-year career after a rumored new sports arena co-tenants with the Il- with the Freep, from a rather modest became a reality with a ground- itch-owned Red Wings. e start as a “copy boy” to reporter, breaking in 2014. $635 million arena at I-75 and managing editor, editor and - Gores, 52, consistently said he’d Woodward Avenue, the center- nally, called out of retire- consider a move if the situation was piece of the Ilitches’ 50 block down- ment to be the right. In 2016, after some initial irta- town rehabilitation, is scheduled to Freep’s publisher. tions with the Ilitch family about the open in September. Shine loved De- Pistons joining their Detroit Red SEE GORES, PAGE 16 troit and knew the com- munity in a way few others did © Entire contents copyright 2017 — not just the movers-and-shakers, by Crain Communications Inc. All rights reserved but “average Joes” and “doers” crainsdetroit.com Vol. 33 No 1-2 $2 a copy. $59 a year. around town. It was my good fortune to get to know Shine almost from the day I moved to Detroit. Community immersion is the same mantra that Keith Crain set for me in 1989 when he hired me to suc- ceed Peter Brown, the founding edi- NEWSPAPER tor of Crain’s. I told Keith then that I SEE KRAMER, PAGE 15 ILLUSTRATION FOR CRAIN’S BY CHRIS MORRIS 2 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // JANUARY 9, 2017 INSIDE MICHIGAN BRIEFS CLASSIFIED ADS 15 KEITH CRAIN 6 Report: Medicaid in 2016. Michigan’s Healthy Michi- ce on an interim basis while a na- perwork last week to run for gover- OPINION 6 gan Medicaid expansion added tional search is launched for nor, making her the rst person to growth lis economy 640,000 adults to Medicaid rolls. Moett-Massey’s replacement. announce a candidacy to replace PEOPLE 14 More than 30,000 jobs and $2.3 Medicaid now covers about 25 per- e leadership change is one term-limited Republican Rick Sny- RUMBLINGS 19 billion in economic benets accrued cent of the state’s population, pri- piece of what Talent Investment der. WEEK ON THE WEB 19 to Michigan last year based on the marily through private Medicaid Agency Director Wanda Stokes is J Gov. Rick Snyder last week signed 2013 decision by the state Legislature health plans, more than half of which calling a three-point plan to resolve legislation to let Michigan motorists to expand Medicaid under the Af- are for-prot companies. ongoing problems with fraud and re- drive faster on at least 1,500 miles of endanger the public, the agency fordable Care Act, according to a new UM researchers found that Michi- sponsiveness to jobless residents rural highways as long as safety stud- said. ey’ll also make DEQ assess- study by the University of Michigan In- gan saved $235 million in 2016 from and employers. Stokes said other ad- ies say the higher speed limits are ments of chemical toxicity levels stitute for Healthcare Policy and Inno- Medicaid expansion. is primarily ministrative changes could be com- OK. e bill authorizes a 75 mph more open. vation. was done by federal dollars paying ing as she overhauls the agency’s speed limit on 600 miles of freeways J Grand Rapids-based American “e important nding is that in for some prison health care and operational structure, and she soon and a 65 mph limit on 900 miles of Seating is selling a division to a local 2017 and for the next four years the mental health services. plans to update a phone switch- other non-freeway “M” roads, AP re- competitor and laying o about 80 savings and increased tax revenues Jay Greene board system to reduce wait times ported. e bills also raise the maxi- workers, the Grand Rapids Business the state is getting is outweighing the for callers. mum speed limit for trucks from 60 Journal reported. e company plans costs to Michigan,” said John Aya- State unemployment Lindsay VanHulle to 65 mph and adjusts measures to sell its Architectural Fixed Seating nian, M.D., lead author of the study, used by insurers to determine eligi- business to Grand Rapids-based Ir- “Economic Eects of Medicaid Ex- agency gets overhaul MICH-CELLANEOUS bility for auto insurance. win Seating Co. in a transaction set to pansion in Michigan,” published in J Asked if he would run for governor J Former state Rep. Al Pscholka, close in March. Financial details the New England Journal of Medi- e director of Michigan’s unem- in 2018, Attorney who served as chairman of the House were not disclosed. cine. ployment agency has been reas- General Bill appropriations committee, will be J Michigan snowbirds will be able Later this month, the Michigan De- signed as part of a top-to-bottom re- Schuette told the state’s next budget director start- to roost at a HopCat restaurant and partment of Health and Human Ser- structuring of the embattled e Associated ing in February. Pscholka, 56, will re- bar in Florida beginning in late vices is expected to release the results organization, in the wake of long- Press that he in- place John Roberts, who will join De- 2017. Grand Rapids-based BarFly of another UM study looking at how standing complaints about fraud and tends to be “part troit-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Ventures LLC announced plans to Medicaid expansion has reduced un- poor customer service. of the conversa- Michigan. Pscholka, R-Stevensville, open its rst Sunshine State HopCat compensated care at hospitals and Sharon Moett-Massey, who has tion.” e Re- was term-limited in the House in De- location in Port St. Lucie, the home- the impact it may have on reducing led the Unemployment Insurance publican’s ten- cember. town of HopCat COO Mark Gray. private health insurance premiums. Agency since 2014, will work on spe- ure has lately J e Michigan Department of Envi- e restaurant chain is known for its Over the last two years, 31 states cial projects within the state’s Talent Bill Schuette: been dominated ronmental Quality has updated its selection of craft beers and “crack have expanded Medicaid coverage to Investment Agency, which oversees “Part of the by investigations regulations of toxic chemicals in in- fries.” HopCat is slated to open a more than 20 million non-elderly the unemployment unit, the Lansing conversation.” into the Flint wa- dustrial air emissions, AP reported.

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