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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 de nitive 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
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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. Mo ett-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 bene ts 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-pro t 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 E ects 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 Mo ett-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. restaurant in Royal Oak in the rst adults with annual incomes up to 138 agency told Crain’s. Bruce Noll, the ter crisis. Mean- e changes will make the rules quarter of this year, making it the percent of the federal poverty level, state talent agency’s legislative liai- while, former Democratic legislative clearer and less burdensome for sixth HopCat in Michigan, including which was $16,400 for a single adult son, will lead the unemployment of- leader Gretchen Whitmer led pa- companies with emissions that don’t a Detroit location.
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Building the electric transmission infrastructure that will power the future. www.itc-holdings.com CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // JANUARY 9, 2017 3 Retail Store closings may force landlords into new strategies By Kirk Pinho lines inside four walls, thereby trig- this all too well. [email protected] gering an industry paradigm shift “ ere is limited demand for large and Sherri Welch and causing migraines for landlords boxes for retailers,” said Joey Agree, [email protected] facing large vacancies in the coming CEO of Bloom eld Hills-based real An obituary for brick-and-mortar months. estate investment trust Agree Realty retail is unnecessary, despite the im- Property owners should therefore Corp. pending closure of ve local Kmart think creatively about reuse of their His company, a landlord to retail- Corp. and two Macy’s Inc. stores an- space and court users that can not ers in both neighborhood shopping nounced last week. only withstand, and thrive in, the centers and in freestanding loca- eir landlords will just have to e-commerce onslaught, but also tions, faced tough times more than think outside the (big) box. ones that might not even have to ve years ago as two of its key ten- Amazon-i cation has turned worry about it in the rst place, such ants, Borders Group and Kmart, were shoppers to their smartphones, tab- as civic and o ce uses. in their respective downward spirals. COSTAR GROUP INC. lets and laptops instead of battling Take it from someone who knows SEE RETAIL, PAGE 18 The rst Kmart store, on Ford Road in Garden City, is among those slated to close.
Transportation Initiative aims to match state auto biz, Silicon Valley
By Dustin Walsh [email protected] e state’s Planet M mobility ini- tiative is aiming to play matchmaker between companies in Michigan and Silicon Valley. Planet M, a branding partnership between the state and local econom- ic development rms, businesses and colleges, plans to identify and solve the manufacturing, testing and customer gaps faced by Silicon Val- ley’s tech industry players focused on transportation and mobility. Mass production, particularly of automobiles and automobile tech- nology, has proven di cult for Cali- fornia companies. Apple Inc. pulled out of making its own car, and Tesla Inc. has repeatedly missed its deliv- A formula was created in the 1990s to determine a fair and equitable way to distribute space to the nearly 50 exhibitors now on ery targets for its lower-cost Model 3. the main oor at the North American International Auto Show in Cobo Center. Auto Show 2017 California needs Michigan’s exper- Automobili-D: Through Jan. 12 tise, but at the dawn of a new age of Press preview: Jan. 9-10 mobility and technology, the auto industry can also bene t from the Auto show oor space measures Industry preview: Jan. 11-12; fast-paced nature and vitality of Sili- tickets: $110 con Valley’s technology stronghold. up to director’s exacting standard Charity Preview: Jan. 13; tickets: “ is was dreamt up by talking to By Dustin Walsh tend, and 300 cases of wine are late last week. “Politically, it’s dan- $400 ($390 is tax deductible) industry, here in Detroit and in Cali- [email protected] bought for the Charity Preview. gerous to look biased toward one fornia,” said Trevor Pawl, group vice Public show: Jan. 14-22; tickets: e North But its the oor plan that receives brand or another, especially as an $13, $7 for kids and seniors, children president of trade and procurement American Inter- the most scrutiny. And it turns out international show, so it was impera- under 6 years old are free programs at the Michigan Economic national Auto there’s a number for that, too. tive that we create a balance to make Development Corp. e plan is his Show is all about Rod Alberts, executive director of sure everyone is part of the show.” Economic impact: $430 million in brainchild. the numbers. NAIAS, created a formula in the Alberts’ formula is weighted — 30 2016, including $270 million on “We want to get Michigan compa- More than 1,800 1990s to determine a fair and equita- percent based on North American displays nies involved in the valley and get trucks are load- ble way to distribute space to the market share, 40 percent based on Worldwide vehicle debuts: At those startups and tech companies ed with show nearly 50 exhibitors on the main the number of models available in least 40, compared to 51 last year there access to the end clients here,” props, 25,000 show oor at Cobo Center and help the North American market and the Pawl said. “If we can connect them Map: For an up-to-date map of the bottles of water draw nearly 1 million visitors and rest based on commitment to the to or or whomever, that auto show oor, see crainsdetroit. Ford Delphi Rod Alberts: are sold, more media annually. Detroit show, including the number means they’re more likely to invest com/autoshowmap. Devises show’s than 5,000 me- “Trying to lay out the oor plan is of past world debuts. and create jobs in Michigan.” “jigsaw puzzle.” dia members at- a like a jigsaw puzzle,” Alberts said SEE SPACE, PAGE 16 SEE PLANET M, PAGE 17
MUST Eyes on the future Editorial: Tear it down Aer a lengthy transition into his A cringe-worthy moment on national READS duties as CEO, Wright Lassiter II television has reminded us that has taken the reins at Henry Ford Pontiac’s crumbling Silverdome must OF THE Health Center, Page 4 be demolished. Opinion, Page 6 WEEK 4 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // JANUARY 9, 2017 Wright Lassiter eyes future goals as he takes helm as CEO of Henry Ford Health System By Jay Greene ment in hospital-acquired condi- [email protected] tions, a 44 percent reduction in urine Wright Lassiter III believes his rst infections, a 12 percent reduction in two years as president of Henry Ford readmissions and a 25 percent re- Health System have been especially duction in surgical complications, noteworthy with the number of deals said Michelle Schreiber, M.D., the nalized and several quality and - system’s chief quality o cer. nancial achievements on the books. Henry Ford also has improved its But he is certain the future for bond rating with S&P Global Ratings Henry Ford holds even greater prom- to “A” with a stable outlook and with ises with plans underway as he takes Moody’s Investor Services from stable over as CEO of the Detroit-based sys- to positive while maintaining its “A3” tem. He succeeds Nancy Schlichting, rating. who retired Dec. 31 after 18 years Another goal that Henry Ford be- with Henry Ford. gan to implement the past two years In an interview with Crain’s during is its plan to turn HAP into a state- the closing days of 2016, Lassiter said wide health insurance organization Henry Ford has closed on deals since to integrate care and coverage. he has arrived to acquire Allegiance “We want to leverage HAP as a Health in Jackson and the commer- strategic resource,” Lassiter said. “I cial business of HealthPlus of Michi- take some signi cant credit for that. gan in Flint. ose acquisitions When I got here, I asked if we are le- pushed Henry Ford’s total annual veraging our current assets su - revenue above the $5.5 billion mark, ciently. We have HAP and our mem- the highest among Southeast Michi- bers get care at Henry Ford hospitals gan-based systems. and we have the Henry Ford Medical Henry Ford also last year a liated Group. Why not do more of it?” with a 33-hospital statewide clinical- But Lassiter said developing a ly integrated network, Armant statewide nancing and delivery net- Health Partners, that will give its in- HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM work does not mean owning a string surance arm, Health Alliance Plan, Wright Lassiter III has taken over as CEO of Henry Ford Health System since of hospitals and physician o ces much greater geographic coverage the retirement of Nancy Schlichting on Dec. 31. across Michigan. toward its goal of taking care of “HAP can’t achieve that on its 500,000 patients by HAP and its inte- said. “ e transition process allowed leader with the right skills and expe- own. I don’t see HAP across the state. grated delivery system. Moreover, Nancy to do some things (chair the rience to lead Henry Ford into our We do it in a tightly aligned way,” Las- Henry Ford has improved quality VA Commission on Care) and for us to second century,” Pierce said in a siter said. “It starts with the merger of HELPING COMPANIES NAVIGATE THROUGH and patient safety scores, expanded move forward on a number of areas.” statement. Allegiance and Henry Ford. at’s a DIFFICULT BUSINESS SITUATIONS personalized cancer medicine, Lassiter said he, Schlichting and Lassiter said other projects he has positive for HAP. Now we have a new boosted nancial performance and the board had a lot of conversations been involved with over the past two delivery area with doctors practicing • Turnaround, Workouts & Restructuring hit record totals for research grants. about expansion and growth, and he years have own somewhat under at Henry Ford, getting labs, X-rays, • Performance Improvement Lassiter believes this is just a start has plans to make those goals hap- the radar, given the high-pro le na- ambulatory surgery and go to Alle- • Litigation Support for Henry Ford to fully capitalize on pen over the next several years. ture of the Allegiance and HealthPlus giance for Jackson (for inpatient • Fraud Investigations & Forensic Accounting its portfolio that also includes six “I am excited about the partner- acquisitions. care).” • Executive Coaching hospitals, more than 32 outpatient ships we formed with Allegiance and “We had a banner year with re- To go statewide, Henry Ford last medical centers and a 1,100-physi- HealthPlus. It expands us into new search grants, up over $77 million, year signed on to join A rmant cian employed medical group. communities. We will look for new the highest ever,” he said. “We are ex- Health Partners, which includes After spending nine years as CEO communities where partnerships cited about our long legacy on quali- many of the state’s leading regional at Alameda Health System in Oakland, make sense and leverage our ty and patient safety and I am focus- health systems and more than 6,000 calderonelight.com Calif., Lassiter, 53, came to Henry strengths,” he said. ing on this to further raise the bar.” physicians. ey include Spectrum Ford on Dec. 15, 2014, as part of a Sandy Pierce, board chairman of He said he wants Henry Ford to Health in Grand Rapids, Sparrow nontraditional two-year plan to suc- Henry Ford, said Lassiter has already take the next leap in quality beyond Health in Lansing, Bronson Healthcare ceed Schlichting. made his mark within the system and its 2011 selection for the Malcolm in Kalamazoo, MidMichigan Health in “I’ve had a couple years to be in community it serves. Baldrige National Quality Award and Midland, Covenant HealthCare in Sagi- the organization and spent some of “During the past two years, our its No Harm Campaign, begun in naw and Lakeland Health in St. Joseph. that time with Nancy. I’ve told a lot of system board has had the pleasure to 2005, to reduce medical errors. “We are just trying to understand people, ‘I don’t see the transition as work with Wright and has found him During the past two years, Henry how to best leverage member institu- Business Growth Solutions dark as some people are seeing it,’” he to be a creative and compassionate Ford has had a 52 percent improve- tions to deliver innovative products CUSTOMIZED FOR YOUR BUSINESS
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It’s a way to reward a is a great way to help high-potential E-Learning Marketing System & tunity for attendees to earn credit to- pool from which many future senior high-performing, high-potential em- employees nd new ways to contrib- ward an MBA or master’s degree. leaders will be tapped, noted Mary ployee and receive dividends from ute to company success. Coaching & Consulting Services e Crain’s Leadership Academy Kramer, Crain’s group publisher. “We the skills the employee will bring Sessions will be facilitated by Todd is designed for high-potential man- borrowed the model from Crain’s back to his or her job,” Kramer said. Connor and Emily Drake, co-found- To learn more contact agers below the C-suite level. In ve Chicago Business, which is entering Another key dierence is mem- ers and principals of Chicago-based Keys2Business, LLC sessions beginning in late February, its third year for the program. bers of the cohort can earn college Flank 5 Academy. Connor is a U.S. attendees will focus on leadership e Crain’s Leadership Academy credit for completing speci c work Navy veteran and two-time entrepre- 248-231-5205 • [email protected] development using tools such as has two local sponsors — the profes- tied to the academy, earning credit neur who developed the experiential www.Keys2BusinessMarketing.com StrengthsFinder and DiSC assess- sional services rm PwC and the Mike hours toward an MBA or master’s de- career development program origi- ments, group exercises and Ilitch School of Business at Wayne gree in the Mike Ilitch School of Busi- nally for Crain’s Chicago Business. “We Guarantee Results!” cross-sector perspectives with other State University. Both sponsors will ness. at program will be adapted to the members of the class. Guest speak- present content at one of the spring Kramer noted that research indi- Detroit market. – CHUCK KEYS Author & Public Speaker ers — leaders in their elds — will sessions. cates promoting talent from within Drake’s experience includes ca- supplement the sessions. “What makes this program dier- companies and organizations often reer counseling roles at several non- CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // JANUARY 9, 2017 5 Wright Lassiter eyes future goals as he takes helm as CEO of Henry Ford Health System ment in hospital-acquired condi- in the markets,” said Lassiter, adding tions, a 44 percent reduction in urine he expects Henry Ford to announce infections, a 12 percent reduction in at least one managed care deal with readmissions and a 25 percent re- an A rmant partner this year. duction in surgical complications, Asked about whether Henry Ford said Michelle Schreiber, M.D., the is negotiating a partnership or a lia- system’s chief quality o cer. tion with Kaiser Permanente, as Henry Ford also has improved its Crain’s has reported, Lassiter de- bond rating with S&P Global Ratings clined comment. He suggested that to “A” with a stable outlook and with because nothing has come out after Moody’s Investor Services from stable one year, maybe there isn’t anything to positive while maintaining its “A3” to the talks. RESTAURANT & BANQUET CENTER rating. However, Crain’s continues to Another goal that Henry Ford be- con rm on background with sources Downtown Detroit gan to implement the past two years within Henry Ford and experts in is its plan to turn HAP into a state- Southeast Michigan that talks are on- wide health insurance organization going between the two health orga- to integrate care and coverage. nizations, which share very similar MULTIPLE EVENT SPACES AVAILABLE “We want to leverage HAP as a operating cultures. strategic resource,” Lassiter said. “I “I’ve known the Kaiser CEO (Ber- FOR PARTIES UP TO 325 PEOPLE take some signi cant credit for that. nard Tyson) for more than a decade. When I got here, I asked if we are le- Henry Ford and Kaiser executives veraging our current assets su - have close relations and talk regular- ciently. We have HAP and our mem- ly” about health care trends and the 1218 Randolph Street bers get care at Henry Ford hospitals industry, said Lassiter, declining to Detroit, MI 48226 and we have the Henry Ford Medical con rm or deny merger or a liation Group. Why not do more of it?” talks. 313.961.9453 But Lassiter said developing a But Lassiter did say he envisions statewide nancing and delivery net- more hospital acquisitions or joint [email protected] HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM work does not mean owning a string ventures between Henry Ford and Wright Lassiter III has taken over as CEO of Henry Ford Health System since of hospitals and physician o ces others in 2017. the retirement of Nancy Schlichting on Dec. 31. across Michigan. “ at would not surprise me. We “HAP can’t achieve that on its continue to be open for discussions leader with the right skills and expe- own. I don’t see HAP across the state. around broadening the footprint rience to lead Henry Ford into our We do it in a tightly aligned way,” Las- around (Henry Ford) services,” he second century,” Pierce said in a siter said. “It starts with the merger of said. “ e chance is better than 50 statement. Allegiance and Henry Ford. at’s a percent. We continue to be open to Lassiter said other projects he has positive for HAP. Now we have a new deals, not just to be bigger and bigger, been involved with over the past two delivery area with doctors practicing but to serve broader geographies.” years have own somewhat under at Henry Ford, getting labs, X-rays, On the possibility that Henry Ford the radar, given the high-pro le na- ambulatory surgery and go to Alle- might forge a larger contract and re- ture of the Allegiance and HealthPlus giance for Jackson (for inpatient lationship with the Wayne State Uni- acquisitions. care).” versity School of Medicine, as several “We had a banner year with re- To go statewide, Henry Ford last Crain’s sources have suggested, Las- search grants, up over $77 million, year signed on to join A rmant siter said he hopes that happens in the highest ever,” he said. “We are ex- Health Partners, which includes the future. cited about our long legacy on quali- many of the state’s leading regional “We have had a long-standing re- ty and patient safety and I am focus- health systems and more than 6,000 lationship with Wayne State and ing on this to further raise the bar.” physicians. ey include Spectrum medical education is quite important He said he wants Henry Ford to Health in Grand Rapids, Sparrow to it. My goal is we are very disci- take the next leap in quality beyond Health in Lansing, Bronson Healthcare plined to partnerships to achieve its 2011 selection for the Malcolm in Kalamazoo, MidMichigan Health in those goals,” he said. “We are con- Baldrige National Quality Award and Midland, Covenant HealthCare in Sagi- stantly working with Wayne State its No Harm Campaign, begun in naw and Lakeland Health in St. Joseph. about other models that make sense. 2005, to reduce medical errors. “We are just trying to understand I remain open to that.” During the past two years, Henry how to best leverage member institu- Jay Greene: (313) 446-0325 Ford has had a 52 percent improve- tions to deliver innovative products Twitter: @jaybgreene
Crain’s to debut executive leadership academy next month ent from other programs is the can- yields higher productivity gains. “In- pro ts and public relations stints at didate must be nominated by the ternal talent already knows the cul- the Detroit-area public relations rm company’s CEO or another C-suite ture and the players,” she said. “ is John Bailey & Associates, and at Ford level executive. It’s a way to reward a is a great way to help high-potential Motor Co. Her expertise is creating high-performing, high-potential em- employees nd new ways to contrib- and implementing holistic career ployee and receive dividends from ute to company success. ful llment strategies that focus the skills the employee will bring Sessions will be facilitated by Todd around strengths, purpose and po- back to his or her job,” Kramer said. Connor and Emily Drake, co-found- tential. Another key dierence is mem- ers and principals of Chicago-based “We’re delighted that both Todd bers of the cohort can earn college Flank 5 Academy. Connor is a U.S. and Emily have experience in the credit for completing speci c work Navy veteran and two-time entrepre- Detroit market,” Kramer said. tied to the academy, earning credit neur who developed the experiential e nal roster for the rst acade- hours toward an MBA or master’s de- career development program origi- my class will be determined by gree in the Mike Ilitch School of Busi- nally for Crain’s Chicago Business. Feb. 3. ness. at program will be adapted to the For more information about the Kramer noted that research indi- Detroit market. program and to complete a nomina- cates promoting talent from within Drake’s experience includes ca- tion form, visit www.crainsdetroit. companies and organizations often reer counseling roles at several non- com/leadershipacademy. 6 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // JANUARY 9, 2017
OPINION No excuses: Tear down Silverdome or a few ugly seconds during its telecast of an ugly game between the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers, NBC cut to an aeri- al shot of a stadium. F“ ose are the ruins of the old Silverdome in Pontiac, which was the home of the Lions for so many years and the site of a Super Bowl back in the 1981 season,” announcer Al Michaels said. It was a cringe-worthy moment for Lions fans, putting a national spot- light on an open sore in Pontiac while the Lions were going down to de- feat — a “ruin porn” moment, the kind we are all too familiar with. Which leads us to this point: Tear it down. e Silverdome must be de- molished. e stadium’s owner, Triple Properties, has promised to raze LETTER the sad, old stadium this spring, but such deadlines seem to come and go without the swinging of a wrecking ball. Triple Properties has sued Don’t underestimate Detroit building costs the brokerage rm it hired to Editor: was a third of what Gilbert proposes. these types of transformational con- market the property, accus- In regard to the Dec. 19 article It takes considerable expertise to struction projects for decades. On top ing the rm of ignoring an “On Gilbert’s building cost claim: build these projects. Designers, con- of that, local architects and engineer- opportunity to extend the How do city’s numbers compare?” I tractors and subcontractors all need ing rms are already busy working on lease on a portion of the site believe it would have bene ted from special experience, a certain comfort other major projects, including rede- for parking. input from a local builder with expe- level, and the guts to take on a major velopments of corporate campuses in ose are excuses. We’ve rience in doing such projects here in downtown development. On top of Warren and Dearborn. is means run out of patience. Tear it Detroit. that, there are other key factors: there might not be enough local talent down. What Dan Gilbert is proposing are J Material costs make up 60 percent for every project in metro Detroit. We watched Tiger Stadium major developments that will trans- of the project, and pricing is about the You can’t look at just the “mean an- rot for a decade before it was form downtown. As a builder, esti- same throughout the country. nual salary” of a laborer in Detroit and J The Silverdome, now in tatters, hosted the demolished; the site is now mating the cost and then delivering Yes, labor in Detroit may cost less claim the cost to build a big project Super Bowl in 1982. being converted to other the project within that cost are two of initially, maybe by as much as 10 per- here will be lower. Does the market uses. e Palace is about to the most important aspects of con- cent. However, with the scarcity of have enough craftspeople with high- lose the Pistons, and Joe Lou- struction. We use historical cost, workers who have experience on these rise experience to sta the project? Do is Arena is about to lose the Wings to the new Little Caesars Arena in current experience and local market types of large-scale transformational they know how to raise and install downtown Detroit. conditions to predict the eventual projects, labor costs will meet or ex- complex and large curtain walls, e Silverdome site has many of the same advantages as the Palace price tag for a project. ceed whatever wage di erential may which are the “skin” of the building? If site: a big chunk of contiguous space near freeways and lots of o ce and It’s easy to lean on statistics from a exist between Detroit and other major they don’t, productivity rates need to light industrial areas, including the FCA US headquarters. Hopefully, Pal- data service to form an opinion, but markets. be adjusted. Or worse, you may need ace owner Tom Gores can do what the Silverdome’s owners have so far numbers alone don’t tell the full sto- In New York, Chicago and San to import people with unique skills. failed to do: Find a new use for his building, an unlikely result, or demol- ry. When you factor in a dose of De- Francisco, there’s plenty of large-scale When you do that, you reach or sur- ish it. troit market reality, the claim that development talent to choose from pass any expected wage di erential. Joe Louis Arena is required to be razed and replaced with a hotel, o c- building big in Detroit today would because building big is what they do Considering these real-life factors es, retail stores, and residential and recreational space by 2022, under be just as costly as in other cities is the most. Not so in Detroit. e reces- in Detroit, the cost of constructing the terms of a deal struck with bond insurer Financial Guaranty Insurance easily substantiated. sion of 2008 caused a lot of subcon- type of transformational development Co. during Detroit’s bankruptcy. But there’s wiggle room. For example, if Gilbert’s developments represent tractors in this area to close up shop. that Gilbert is proposing will most as- the developer chosen by FGIC is unable to complete the project, the par- a $3 billion investment in the next e skills available here match what is suredly reach levels seen in other ma- cels revert back to the city. several years. ere have been two being built right now, not necessarily jor metropolitan areas. at worries us, but a least there’s a plan and a contract. Nothing like skyscrapers taller than 25 stories what will be built in the future. John Rakolta Jr. that in Pontiac. built in downtown Detroit since the ose subcontractors that have Chairman and CEO, Walbridge Tear it down. 1960s, and the cost of those projects persevered have not been building Detroit It is time to shine in Detroit t all starts this week for industry that Detroit is the Motor Capital of cause it is so important to the indus- surprised to see President-elect folks, but everybody can partici- the world. try. ey migrate here annually to Trump show up in Detroit during pate starting on Saturday at the Detroit shines during the auto see how the battle is going, whether the press activities this week. INorth American International Auto show. Journalists arrive to write it’s about electric versus gasoline Whether it’s in technology or reg- Show. It’s larger than the Super about the cars, but the veterans have power or the status of autonomous ulation, we haven’t seen this much Bowl in terms of economic impact to be impressed by the transforma- vehicles and to measure the progress turmoil in a century in this industry. for our community, adding mightily tion of the city in recent years. and advancements made over the is is a critical time for the auto in- to our economic bottom line, at- Each one of us has an opportunity past year. dustry, and that’s why the interna- tracting more than 5,000 journalists KEITH CRAIN to be an ambassador for our com- is year, the talk will be about the tional show here in Detroit is so im- from around the world, industry ex- Editor-in-chief munity — not just sharing the story impact our new president will have portant. ecutives and hundreds of thou- of the renaissance in Detroit but by on the industry. Donald Trump has is show is not just for auto exec- sands of car enthusiasts, all wanting ly establish Detroit as the Motor City, being as helpful as possible to our already had a big impact — and he utives and out-of-towners. Detroi- to see the latest and greatest from it is the auto show. Along with the visitors from all over the world. hasn’t even been inaugurated. He ters have a world-class, international the global auto industry. Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Auto executives from all over the has lots of opportunities to make life show in their own backyard. Check it If ever there was an event to clear- Prix in June, the show makes it clear world come to this motor show be- easier for the industry. I wouldn’t be out. It is worth your time. CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // JANUARY 9, 2017 7 SPECIAL REPORT: MICHIGAN BUSINESS
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STATE OF MOBILITY 18 By Dustin Walsh Brimley [email protected] ichigan’s future hinges on its largest industry’s ability to adapt to the transformation cultural change happening throughout the country. Tomorrow’s consumer will be less dependent on driving and more reliant on technology. e race for mobility is both a revolution and Mthreat if the auto industry does not welcome change. In Michigan, auto research and development has exploded into the new year with a focus on mobility with autonomous and connected cars. Mapping those assets is now a critical part of the state’s strategy to dominate the space and capture investment. Below is a snapshot of those assets that position the state and its industry for a pro table future.
1 The American Center for 7 Michigan International Mobility, Ypsilanti Township Speedway, Brooklyn Construction of the connected and Better known for its NASCAR events, autonomous vehicle test site began in MIS o ers a recon gurable network of November on the estimated $80 million tracks, including the two-mile race oval, center, which will o er highway, urban to automakers, suppliers and 12 and rural simulations on more than 300 researchers to test vehicles, including Auburn Hills acres at a former General Motors plant connected and autonomous. Its road at Willow Run. The state-owned facility courses feature elevation changes, will build a 2.5-mile highway loop as natural line-of-sight interferences, part of its rst phase, which is expected garages, skid pad, o -road testing, a 17 Michigan Technological to open in December 2017. The second tunnel, and intersections. 2 University Transportation phase requires additional funding by 14 Institute, Houghton , Detroit Warren the federal government. 8 NextEnergy Farmington 19 While more focused on infrastructure, the A nonpro t created in 2002 to drive Hills South eld institute o ers research and education in 2 Center for Advanced advanced energy and transportation various mobility-focused areas, such as Automotive Technology at Macomb investment in the city of Detroit. Part of , Warren tra c data mining and monitoring. Community College its focus is to provide market analysis, 16 Funded by the National Science collaborate public-private partnerships Livonia 3, 8, Foundation, CAAT is a partnership 10 11 and support education around the 6, 13 between MCC and Wayne State 15 Detroit concept of mobility. Dearborn University designed to o er training, Ann Arbor Superior Twp.
certi cates and degrees in automotive 9 Southeast Michigan 5 electri cation, engineering, program Connected Vehicle Test Bed management, laboratory services, etc. As part of MDOT’s highway 1 Flint reconstruction e orts, the state Ypsilanti 3 Detroit Test Bed, downtown Detroit agency has installed the largest An urban connected-vehicle test bed connected vehicle infrastructure in the 20 nation along highways throughout near Cobo Center installed with Flat Rock vehicle-to-infrastructure technology Southeast Michigan. The sensors, through a federally-funded program. connecting vehicles to infrastructure, 9 are along nearly 200 miles of I-94, I-75, 4 7 4 I-94 Truck Parking Information I-96 and I-275. The project is expected Southwest Michigan Brooklyn and Management System, to continue as more highways see Southwest Michigan renovation. MDOT’s Southeast Installed by the Michigan Department Michigan Transportation Operations of Transportation in 2014, TIPMS is a Center in Detroit oversees a tra c system that delivers real-time truck monitoring system composed of 400 parking availability along the I-94 12 FCA US LLC, Auburn Hills 14 Nissan Technical Center North 18 Continental Automotive Brimley freeway miles instrumented with corridor in southwest Michigan. The The automaker partnered with America Inc., Farmington Hills Development Center, Brimley closed-circuit cameras, message signs project is federally funded by the Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo, nee Google Renault-Nissan Alliance and Microso Continental Automotive, the Auburn and probe tra c monitors. Federal Highway Administration. self-driving car project, to develop 100 Corp. signed a global, multi-year Hills-based subsidiary of Continental AG 10 Ford Motor Co., Dearborn autonomous Chrysler Paci ca agreement in December to partner on in Germany, is spearheading the Cruising 5 Kettering University General In 2016, Ford launched its Ford Smart connected driving technologies and Chau eur project, which equips vehicles Motors Mobility Research Center, minivans. It also unveiled its Chrysler Flint Mobility subsidiary to invest in mobility Portal Concept electric minivan last some of that work is expected to take with semi-autonomous driving capabili- Opened in October 2015, The $7 million development. The automaker is also week at the Consumer Electronics place in Michigan. ties. The supplier tests its technologies, testing semi-autonomous and including autonomous tech, at its winter research center includes a 3.25-acre Show in Las Vegas. 15 Toyota Research Institute, Ann Arbor connected vehicles with Uber in test track in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. test pad and outdoor lab space to test 13 Hyundai-Kia America Technical In May, Toyota opened its third U.S. Pittsburgh and soon in Detroit. and develop autonomous vehicle Center Inc., Superior Township operation focusing on autonomous vehi- 19 Denso International America cles, others are in Cambridge, Mass. and , South eld systems. The site will use Kettering’s 11 General Motors Co., Detroit The automaker’s G90 ¢ agship sedan Inc. private 4G LTE cellular network to GM acquired driverless car tech rm from its new Genesis luxury brand will Palo Alto, Calif. The operations are part As part of a federal program, Telegraph enhance testing. Cruise Automation for $1 billion, feature a suite of advanced safety of a $1 billion program through 2020 on Road in South eld was out tted with invested $500 million into San technologies, dubbed Genesis Smart arti cial intelligence, robotics and vehicle-to-infrastructure sensors, 6 MCity at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Francisco ride-hailing service Ly , and Sense, that bundles adaptive cruise autonomous vehicles. Toyota has tested allowing Denso to test connected Opened in 2015, UM’s MCity was the launched its own car-sharing service, control, lane-keeping assistance and connected and autonomous technology vehicle capabilities, such as tra c rst major connected vehicle test bed Maven, all last year. Maven is already technologies to reduce driver fatigue. at its technical center in York Township. mitigation and human interaction with o ering service in metro Detroit to the Standard features also include an connected technologies. in the state. The $6.5 million facility, 16 Roush Industries Inc., Livonia Detroit Metropolitan Airport. In automatic emergency braking system developed with MDOT, has replicated The engineering and specialty manufac- 20 Robert Bosch LLC Proving an urban driving environment and December, GM announced it would with pedestrian detection and active turing company known for its custom Grounds, Flat Rock suburban streetscapes, highways and begin immediate testing of its blind-spot detection. Hyundai is Ford Mustang models, assembled Bosch, like Continental, has been rural roads. The site has 40 building autonomous Chevrolet Bolt on expected to be a prime user of the Waymo’s test ¢ eet of 100 Google developing sensors for decades, which facades, intersections, a tra c circle, Michigan roadways and manufacture American Center for Mobility in Willow prototype vehicles. That vehicle will be now enable autonomous systems. The bridge, tunnel, gravel roads and those cars at the Orion Assembly Plant Run for its continued mobility unveiled at this week’s North American testing of those technologies locally entrance and exit ramps. in Orion Township. developments. International Auto Show in Detroit. occurs in Flat Rock. CRAIN’S GRAPHIC BY LISA SAWYER
P007_CD_20170109.indd 7 1/6/17 11:24 AM 8 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // JANUARY 9, 2017 SPECIAL REPORT SPECIAL REPORT: NEWSMAKERS OF THE YEAR Barbara McQuade U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Michigan NEWSMAKERS OF THE YEAR By Kirk Pinho [email protected] Barbara McQuade doesn’t know if she’ll have a job later this month. But even if McQuade, U.S. Attor- ney for the Eastern District of Michi- Tom Mona Andy Barbara Joe Ronna Romney Mina Kirk Sam M. Roy gan, is not selected by President-elect Gores Hanna-Attisha Appleby McQuade Mullany McDaniel Sooch Steudle Valenti III Wilson Donald Trump to continue serving in Page 1 This page This page Page 9 Page 9 Page 10 Page 10 Page 11 Page12 Page 13 her post after his inauguration, she certainly has spent the last six years building up an impressive resume. McQuade, 52, is a crusader against Mona Hanna-Attisha, M.D. Andy public corruption and has brought charges against o cials in Macomb Director, pediatric public County and Detroit Public Schools, health initiative, Hurley among others, in the last 12 months. Medical Center Appleby “Government can help solve many problems, but when we have By Jay Greene Chairman and CEO, corrupt o cials, they are violating [email protected] General Sports; founder, the contract they signed with us, the Mona Hanna-Attisha, M.D., the pediatri- United Shore Professional cian who blew the public whistle on the lead Baseball League poisoning of children and adults in Flint in one of the nation’s biggest preventable envi- By Bill Shea ronmental disasters, continues to advocate [email protected] Joe Mullany for clean and safe drinking and bathing water. Andy Appleby’s baseball league was an “To this day our water is still not safe,” said overnight success 30 years in the making, he CEO, Detroit Medical Center Hanna-Attisha, who practices at Hurley Medi- likes to say. cal Center in Flint and is the director of a pedi- Using three decades-plus of experience, the By Jay Greene atric public health initiative. “I am more Rochester sports entrepreneur nanced the [email protected] hopeful than I have been because Congress $15 million startup cost for the independent Joe Mullany, CEO of Detroit Medi- passed federal funding for Flint that brings United Shore Professional Baseball League and a cal Center, had a busy 2016 that really signi cant money ($170 million) for infra- 2,000-seat stadium along M-59 in Utica. got going in February with the open- structure to nally replace the plumbing.” e developmental league for players 18 to ing of DMC Children’s Hospital of Mich- Besides funds to replace aging lead pipes, 24 began play with three teams in May, aver- igan-Troy, a new outpatient health the $10 billion federal water improvement bill aged 3,200 fans per game while selling out 42 center that already is contributing to also includes money to help Flint build a dis- of 75 games at Jimmy John’s Field. Appleby’s DMC’s bottom line. ease registry to track the health of children for model was to build a nice stadium and top-tier Mullany also got caught up news decades. service, make it family friendly and inexpen- events last year that turned into con- “ is is just the beginning of the funds we sive — a blueprint that worked. troversies — contract talks with Wayne will need to build this public health program e league was pro table, Appleby said, State University School of Medicine to mitigate the impact” of the lead poisoning and sent players to higher levels of pro base- and state and federal investigations on thousands of exposed children, Hanna-At- into DMC infection control and in- tisha said. strument cleaning practices — that he During the summer of 2015, Hanna-Attisha Rochester sports felt were overblown in the media. began hearing talk about the high levels of entrepreneur Andy But Mullany’s 30-year health care lead being found in the Flint public water Appleby nanced the career has taught him that external supply. She wondered if the lead was entering $15 million startup distractions should never interfere the bodies of children. cost for the with internal policies that he be- She and other researchers began studying independent United lieves are moving DMC toward high- blood tests stored at city-owned Hurley. What Shore Professional er-quality and lower-cost care. she found shocked her and colleagues, and Baseball League and a “We opened Troy in February to a soon angered Michigan and the nation, for up 2,000-seat stadium much-heralded debut. It is a hospi- to 9,000 children ages 6 and younger were be- along M-59 in Utica. tal without beds and has every ser- ing exposed to dangerously high levels of vice except for long-term patient lead. care,” said Mullany, noting that the Despite criticisms about creating hysteria $42 million facility met its three-year from state o cials at the time, Hanna-Attisha Legislature still must extend funding for early ball. A ninth USPBL player was recently signed patient projections during the rst released a study in September 2015 that Flint pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha blew childhood intervention and the school nurs- to a Major League Baseball farm team, exceed- three months of operation. showed the percentage of children with more the public whistle on amount of lead entering the ing program. It also must nalize and improve ing Appleby’s rst-year expectations and in- “ ere clearly was need for special- than 5 micrograms per deciliter of lead in public water supply and endangering the health policies on the state’s lead and copper rule, creasing his odds of reaching his chief goal: ized pediatric care services” in Oak- their blood increased from 2.1 percent to 4 of children and adults. which works to reduce pipe corrosivity. Getting a player to an MLB club. land County, said Mullany, who has percent. Some children in certain ZIP codes Hanna-Attisha said she has moved past the He recently announced that a fourth team, been at DMC since April 2012, when were being exposed to triple the average about brain damage,” she said. “We are trying stage of pointing ngers. the Westside Woolly Mammoths, will join the former CEO Mike Duggan hired him blood lead levels from the water, up to 6.3 per- to ght that stigma. When I talk with them, I “I look forward to the investigation com- Birmingham Bloomeld Beavers, Eastside Dia- as his successor in preparation for his cent. e state was forced to acknowledge the reiterate that you are strong, beautiful and re- pleting. It is so important to the people of Flint mond Hoppers and Utica Unicorns in 2017 at the successful run for Detroit mayor. problem. silient.” to know who did what and when they did it. stadium. Plans are to expand to cities elsewhere Mullany, 52, said DMC is looking at Tom Gores Lead mostly a ects unborn children and While funding to replace pipes is slow to ey want prosecution. It’s important so it in the country after 2017, with the goal of a sec- additional outpatient clinic locations those ages 6 and younger whose brains are still come and is less than half what is needed, doesn't happen again,” she said. ond stadium opening in summer 2018. e in Macomb County for a children’s being formed. Research shows lead causes ir- Hanna-Attisha said, her work helping chil- On a personal level, Hanna-Attisha has league has been in talks with a dozen cities as center and western Wayne County for reversible brain damage, developmental de- dren with potential medical and psychologi- been in high demand the past 18 months, far west as Colorado, he said. adults. He said DMC gets about 60,000 lays, speech problems, rashes, a boosted risk cal issues is just beginning. speaking before Congress, public health Appleby got his start in sports with Palace patient visits from Oakland and Ma- for behavioral issues and other conditions. “We are conducting developmental assess- meetings and university commencements. Sports & Entertainment in the 1980s, and in comb counties to downtown DMC In talks with Flint’s children, Hanna-Atti- ments, hiring folks, creating teams to help Demands on her time have been overwhelm- 1998 launched his own company, General Children’s Hospital of Michigan. sha has become more concerned recently be- children,” she said. “We have no idea what the ing at times, but she isn’t complaining. Sports & Entertainment. He’s owned a San Di- From a nancial standpoint, giv- cause many children have expressed fear and next presidential administration will bring to “Last week I was in ve states. I have fortu- ego Padres farm team and a British soccer en the high startup costs he projects anxiety over what happened to them. Flint. We try to be nonpartisan, but we need nately been supported by my hospital and uni- club, but the USPBL is his legacy project. He the children’s outpatient center to “Everything is being attributed to this wa- more help.” versity to do a lot of this work. We don’t want used that experience to shape his baseball break even in 2017, Mullany said. ter. Kids watch TV, read the internet and hear At the state level, Hanna-Attisha said the this to happen again,” said Hanna-Attisha. venture. Meanwhile, the center is generating CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // JANUARY 9, 2017 9 SPECIAL REPORT SPECIAL REPORT: NEWSMAKERS OF THE YEAR
Charged so far are Dean Reyn- federal investigation into the Detroit olds, a Clinton Township trustee; Land Bank Authority and Detroit Barbara McQuade Cli ord Freitas, a Macomb Town- Building Authority over the city’s ship trustee; and Michael Lovelock, demolition program, which has U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Michigan the former Chester eld Township been under investigation for several supervisor who was unseated in No- months amid escalating costs. NEWSMAKERS OF THE YEAR By Kirk Pinho vember’s election. McQuade took her job in January [email protected] Barbara McQuade is a crusader “ e investigation is continuing,” 2010, becoming the rst woman to Barbara McQuade doesn’t know if against public corruption and has McQuade said. “Good government hold that post after ve years as dep- she’ll have a job later this month. brought charges against ocials in is important everywhere, and we uty chief of the o ce’s National Se- But even if McQuade, U.S. Attor- Macomb County and Detroit Public want to make sure all citizens get the curity Unit. ney for the Eastern District of Michi- Schools, among others, in the last 12 honest government that they pay for During her time heading the of- M. Roy gan, is not selected by President-elect months. with their tax dollars.” ce, it has prosecuted many Wilson Donald Trump to continue serving in In March, she led charges against high-pro le cases, including those of Page 13 her post after his inauguration, she duty of public loyalty and public a dozen DPS principals, one of the former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpat- certainly has spent the last six years trust, whether it’s police o cers, district’s assistant superintendents rick on public corruption charges building up an impressive resume. school principals or others,” said and school supplies vendor Norman and the so-called “underwear bomb- McQuade, 52, is a crusader against McQuade, who received both her Shy over a bribery and kickback er,” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, an Andy public corruption and has brought bachelor’s degree and juris doctor- scheme, which centered on over al-Qaida trainee who in 2009 spear- charges against o cials in Macomb ate from the University of Michigan. $900,000 in payments allegedly headed a botched bombing attempt County and Detroit Public Schools, McQuade, a native of Sterling ther McQuade nor the FBI has identi- made to the o cials in exchange for on a Delta Air Lines ight to Detroit. among others, in the last 12 months. Heights, has charged three local ed Rizzo as the company at the cen- about $2.7 million from DPS in fraud- “You always worry about a terrorist Appleby “Government can help solve elected o cials in Macomb County ter of the investigation, but Rizzo’s ulent invoice payments. Shy was sen- attack occurring in our community, many problems, but when we have in connection with an alleged kick- successor company, GFL Environmen- tenced to ve years in prison, and the so that’s the thing that keeps me up at Chairman and CEO, corrupt o cials, they are violating back scheme involving the former tal USA Inc., has acknowledged it is principals were all convicted. night, that I worry about,” she said. General Sports; founder, the contract they signed with us, the Rizzo Environmental Services Inc. Nei- part of the investigation. Her o ce is also helping with a “We are as diligent as we can be.” United Shore Professional Baseball League acquired DMC in 2013) and were By Bill Shea working on it.” [email protected] Joe Mullany In early November, the Michigan Andy Appleby’s baseball league was an Department of Licensing and Regula- overnight success 30 years in the making, he CEO, Detroit Medical Center tory A airs completed its survey and likes to say. said DMC had resolved health code Using three decades-plus of experience, the By Jay Greene violations that resulted from lack of Rochester sports entrepreneur nanced the [email protected] Joe Mullany had a busy 2016 with the employee and management training, $15 million startup cost for the independent Joe Mullany, CEO of Detroit Medi- opening of DMC Children’s Hospital documentation and various infection United Shore Professional Baseball League and a cal Center, had a busy 2016 that really of Michigan-Troy, and news events control practices. Some sloppy infec- 2,000-seat stadium along M-59 in Utica. got going in February with the open- that turned into controversies — tion control practices were noted by e developmental league for players 18 to ing of DMC Children’s Hospital of Mich- contract talks with Wayne State surveyors, including failure to regu- 24 began play with three teams in May, aver- igan-Troy, a new outpatient health University School of Medicine and larly preclean surgical instruments in aged 3,200 fans per game while selling out 42 center that already is contributing to state and federal investigations into operating rooms, mixing dirty gloves of 75 games at Jimmy John’s Field. Appleby’s DMC’s bottom line. DMC infection control and instrument with clean ones and mopping blood- model was to build a nice stadium and top-tier Mullany also got caught up news cleaning practices. stained oors without moving service, make it family friendly and inexpen- events last year that turned into con- cleaned equipment. sive — a blueprint that worked. troversies — contract talks with Wayne 60 new pediatric admissions per “We were surveyed by the state e league was pro table, Appleby said, State University School of Medicine month for Children’s Hospital. and the Joint Commission, and they and sent players to higher levels of pro base- and state and federal investigations Earlier this year, o cials for Wayne never found any patient issues,” into DMC infection control and in- State and DMC began contract talks Mullany said. “What we learned was strument cleaning practices — that he to extend their long-term clinical ser- with complicated issues you need to Rochester sports felt were overblown in the media. vices and administrative relationship. pull all parties together — how in- entrepreneur Andy But Mullany’s 30-year health care Both sides also hoped the agreement struments are cleaned and how doc- Appleby nanced the career has taught him that external would be “transformational,” en- tors dress for surgery — and work $15 million startup distractions should never interfere abling the medical partners to together toward a solution.” cost for the with internal policies that he be- achieve national prominence over DMC has set up a multi-disci- independent United lieves are moving DMC toward high- the 5- to 10-year contract period. plinary perioperative council to con- Shore Professional er-quality and lower-cost care. It didn’t turn out that way. By the tinuously review how the process Baseball League and a “We opened Troy in February to a end of September, the sides agreed can be improved. 2,000-seat stadium much-heralded debut. It is a hospi- to an 18-month services contract “I was disappointed it got to a along M-59 in Utica. tal without beds and has every ser- that Wayne State describes as a sim- point where” the news was over- vice except for long-term patient ple vendor relationship. blown in the press, Mullany said. care,” said Mullany, noting that the Mullany still believes DMC is on “ e issue (of cleaning instru- $42 million facility met its three-year the path toward its goal of becoming ments) is a part of health care, but we ball. A ninth USPBL player was recently signed patient projections during the rst a top 15 academic medical center, but were not prepared for the (Detroit to a Major League Baseball farm team, exceed- three months of operation. he clearly feels an opportunity was News) to take a one-sided view,” he ing Appleby’s rst-year expectations and in- “ ere clearly was need for special- missed to speed up that timetable. chairs for what this relationship is.” more than a decade of problems said. “For those who did follow the creasing his odds of reaching his chief goal: ized pediatric care services” in Oak- “ e process was much better this Since October, some Wayne phy- with sterilization of surgical instru- paper, we su ered some reputational Getting a player to an MLB club. land County, said Mullany, who has time around and fairly positive in sicians have asked DMC to expand ments at DMC’s four downtown hos- damage, and it put a lot of employees He recently announced that a fourth team, been at DMC since April 2012, when nature,” Mullany said of the six- the relationship going forward, Mul- pitals — Detroit Receiving, Children’s, on the defensive who were attacked.” the Westside Woolly Mammoths, will join the former CEO Mike Duggan hired him month negotiations. “Simply put, it lany said. “We have attempted to Harper and Hutzel. Looking ahead, Mullany said he is Birmingham Bloomeld Beavers, Eastside Dia- as his successor in preparation for his covers payment for administrative contract with them for resident su- At the time of the revelations, optimistic about DMC’s future, as it mond Hoppers and Utica Unicorns in 2017 at the successful run for Detroit mayor. duties and clinical coverage.” pervision for our programs,” he said. DMC was getting close to resolving moves past the Wayne State contract stadium. Plans are to expand to cities elsewhere Mullany, 52, said DMC is looking at Mullany said the only blip in the “ ere will be more talks with them.” the problems in the massive central and the sterile processing issue. in the country after 2017, with the goal of a sec- additional outpatient clinic locations talks — that caused the two sides to And despite recent statements sterile processing department, DMC also has nearly completed its ond stadium opening in summer 2018. e in Macomb County for a children’s suspend talks in August — occurred made by Wayne State o cials, Mul- which cleans and disinfects more $850 million building improvement league has been in talks with a dozen cities as center and western Wayne County for because Wayne State insisted on lany said he believes the corporate than 17 million instruments and and services plan that will accrue far west as Colorado, he said. adults. He said DMC gets about 60,000 nonsolicitation language that would cultures between the two institutions tools per year, Mullany said. bene ts for years. Appleby got his start in sports with Palace patient visits from Oakland and Ma- have prevented DMC from making are compatible. He hopes future con- “We made improvements every “We are done with the regulatory Sports & Entertainment in the 1980s, and in comb counties to downtown DMC employment o ers to Wayne State tract talks will open greater possibili- single year and were well on our way process and passed with ying col- 1998 launched his own company, General Children’s Hospital of Michigan. physicians. ties between the two institutions. to correcting the problem when for- ors,” he said. “We are internally con- Sports & Entertainment. He’s owned a San Di- From a nancial standpoint, giv- “Even the (medical school) faculty In one of the biggest health care mer and terminated employees dent with our processes and peo- ego Padres farm team and a British soccer en the high startup costs he projects was opposed to this,” said Mullany, stories of the year, e Detroit News leaked the information (to the De- ple. From a community perspective, club, but the USPBL is his legacy project. He the children’s outpatient center to who said the terms were excluded in late August reported that hun- troit News),” said Mullany. “We in- we have been here 150 years, and used that experience to shape his baseball break even in 2017, Mullany said. from the contract. “ is (discussion) dreds of leaked emails from DMC herited the problem (when Dal- people understand” the hospital will venture. Meanwhile, the center is generating opened up the eyes of the department physicians and managers suggested las-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. be here for them. 10 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // JANUARY 9, 2017 SPECIAL REPORT: NEWSMAKERS OF THE YEAR SPECIAL REPORT: NEWSMAKERS OF THE YEAR
NAME, DESCRIPTION/TITLE gan political family — her grandfa- to really be competitive in our state. ther is former Michigan Gov. George Donald Trump recognized that early Ronna Romney McDaniel Romney — Romney McDaniel got on,” Romney McDaniel said. “He Kirk Steudle her start in politics as a driver on her was coming here and talking to Head here lj dljldjlj lj ldj ljdl hhk dh jd Chairman, Michigan Republican Party mother’s 1994 U.S. Senate campaign. Michiganders about issues that reso- Director, Michigan Department “I like being part of the strategy, nated with them and their homes — of Transportation By Lindsay VanHulle the ground game, the messaging,” fair trade, Obamacare, jobs, econo- Crain’s Detroit Business/Bridge Magazine President-elect Donald Trump has she said, citing an app the state party my — and it didn’t take really any By Dustin Walsh LANSING — When it comes to thrown his support behind Ronna developed to target individual voters convincing to get him to invest in [email protected] drawing election-free zones around Romney McDaniel’s bid to lead the to boost turnout on Election Day and Michigan.” Kirk Steudle has kept an orange holiday dinner tables, it turns out Republican National Committee, which a 3-year-old Detroit o ce designed Trump, though, was not an ordi- safety vest in the trunk of his car that even the Romneys are not un- could happen this month. to improve outreach in the heavily nary candidate. On the campaign since he joined the Michigan Depart- Sam Valenti was like the rest of us. minority and Democratic city. “I love trail, he made disparaging comments ment of Transportation more than 30 involved in a string of “We might not be talking politics,” eir di ering opinions of Trump thinking about ways that we can about women, minorities and people years ago. Yet the danger he’s faced headline making events said Ronna Romney McDaniel, led to a “lapse of communication,” message to millennials or women or with disabilities, and has used his since becoming director in 2006 sits in 2016, some with his chairman of the Michigan Republican she said, though the impasse has people who haven’t been tradition- Twitter account both during and af- in the Michigan State Capitol, not in name prominently Party, who helped President-elect started to end. ally Republicans.” ter the election to criticize the press a driver’s seat. attached, others with Donald Trump ip Michigan to a Re- Trump was the rst Republican e strategy in 2016 meant con- and comment on foreign a airs. Most recently, Steudle was target- him playing an active publican presidential candidate for presidential candidate to win Michi- vincing Republican presidential Romney McDaniel said she did ed by Democrat representatives in but behind-the-scenes the rst time in nearly 30 years. “is gan since George H.W. Bush in 1988. candidates that Michigan wasn’t au- not agree with everything Trump 2015 during the state’s chaotic role. is a tough election for a lot of people. Much of his success here can be at- tomatically a blue state. Romney said, but his position on key issues road-funding debate. State Rep. Scott And I’m sensitive to that, because I tributed to Romney McDaniel, 43, McDaniel, who as party chairman won over voters. Dianda, D-Calumet, a former MDOT have people in my own family who who has led the state party since was neutral in the race, said she at- His use of social media, she said, employee, described Steudle as “a had those issues.” February 2015. Trump since has tended campaign events for every could be a way to connect with poor steward of the taxpayers’ dol- She’s referring to her uncle, Mitt thrown his support behind Romney candidate who visited the state younger voters who buck party a li- lars” and called for his resignation. Romney, the former Massachusetts McDaniel’s bid to lead the Republi- during the primary cycle. ation in favor of identifying with in- Steudle persevered, as he has when governor and 2012 GOP presidential can National Committee, which could She said she told the candidates dividual candidates that share their these issues crop up. He’s been loathed nominee who criticized Trump’s t- happen this month. She would suc- and their teams about how she be- values. and adored from both sides of the aisle, ness for o ce during the primaries. ceed current party Chairman Reince lieved Michigan could be competi- “He’s created a great platform to but his legacy won’t rest on road fund- Romney McDaniel volunteered for Priebus, whom Trump named his “I’m very honored that Presi- tive, and how the Republican gover- reach out to the people who sup- ing or reconstruction. Steudle is the her uncle’s presidential campaign. chief of sta . dent-elect Trump has that faith in nor and majority Legislature helped ported him, and why would we he godfather of the state’s mobility e orts, me,” said Romney McDaniel, who, if Michigan recover from the recession. turn that messaging over to a mid- which reached new heights in 2016. elected, would commute between And she said she repeatedly called dleman who may not be able to ac- “I started talking about how cars Washington, D.C., and her home in national Republican leaders to con- curately articulate what he’s trying to were going to talk to each other in Northville Township while her son vince them to hold a primary debate say?” she said. “is is a new age of 2006, how cars would become safer and daughter nish the school year. in Detroit, which happened in March politics, but I think the people who and more intelligent, but I didn’t re- “I’m so excited for this new opportu- at the Fox eatre. support Donald Trump appreciate ally know what that meant,” Steudle nity, if it happens.” “If you could connect to the Mich- that he’s going to continue to reach said. “When (Gov. Rick) Snyder got A member of a prominent Michi- igan story, you would have a chance out to them directly.” in o ce, the concept took o . He got A Fee-Only Wealth Management Group
that new trials would re ect the suc- cesses of earlier trials, Sooch and her Mina co-founder and chief science o cer, Michigan’s #1 Financial Advisor* Charlie Bisgaier, each invested more than $500,000 in the IPO. “at’s a meaningful number, and Sooch it showcased our belief in gemcabe- President and CEO, ne,” she said. Charles C. Zhang Gemphire Therapeutics Sooch was also a Crain’s News- maker of the Year in 2014, a year that ® Inc. CFP , MBA, MSFS, ChFC, CLU established her as a superstar on the Managing Partner By Tom Henderson local biotech front. [email protected] In January that year, she raised Charles has been ranked in the top It was a roller-coaster year for $12.5 million in venture capital for 10 on Barron’s list of Top 100 Mina Sooch, the president and CEO what had been a struggling pharma- Independent Financial Advisors for of Gemphire Therapeutics, a small ceutical company that she joined in 2015 and 2016, and is currently pharmaceutical startup in Livonia. 2012 as president and CEO, Plym- the highest ranking fee-only NAPFA-Registered Financial She had planned on an initial public outh Township-based ProNAi Thera- Advisor on the list.** o ering of $60 million for Gemphire peutics Inc. early in the year, but a cooling market en that April, she raised an ad- nationally for pharma IPOs pushed the ditional $59.5 million for the compa- timing back to June and the target ny, then the largest single round of We Uphold a Fiduciary Standard amount down to $45 million. venture capital in state history. In June, world markets were roiled Both of those funding rounds 101 West Big Beaver Road by the unexpected vote by those in the were based on results that ProNAi United Kingdom to leave the Europe- presented at a major oncology con- 14th Floor an Union, and her IPO was pushed vention in New Orleans in Decem- Troy, MI 48084 back to August and the amount down- “It was a year of highs, but also ber 2013 on how its lead product im- sized, again, to $30 million. (Also in It was a roller-coaster year for Mina one of uncertainty for quite some proved the conditions of patients (248) 687-1258 or (888) 777-0126 June, Sooch was named by Crain’s as Sooch, the president and CEO of time. I learned patience,” Sooch said. with non-Hodgkin lymphoma one of the 100 most in uential wom- Gemphire Therapeutics, a small “It was very rewarding to go public whose cancer had been resistant to en in Michigan.) pharmaceutical startup in Livonia. and execute on our plan the rest of other treatments. Finally, on Aug. 5, Gemphire, the year, to hire a team and get our In September 2014, Sooch left www.zhangnancial.com which had licensed a cardiovascular to start reporting results in 2017. Fa- trials up and running. We’re exactly ProNAi, which was setting the stage drug called gemcabene from Pzer vorable results — the three will en- where we want to be as a company. for an IPO of $158 million in 2015. It Inc., had its o ering and began trad- roll a total of about 200 patients in “We got advice from our bankers was time for the company to bring in Assets under custody of LPL Financial and TD Ameritrade. ing on the Nasdaq Global Market un- medical centers around the country that we should consider waiting for a CEO who had experience leading *As reported in Barron’s March 5, 2016. Rankings based on assets under management, der the symbol GEMP. — could lead to a secondary public January 2017 to go public, but we public companies, and time for her revenue generated for the advisors’ rms, quality of practices and other factors. Immediately, Sooch began pro- o ering or to a sale to a larger phar- wanted to launch three trials, and we to move on to another startup in **As reported in Barron’s August 22, 2015 and August 27, 2016. Based on assets ceeding on two human trials on dif- maceutical company. couldn’t do that until we went pub- Gemphire. under management, quality of practices, revenue that advisors generate for their ferent potential patient populations Sooch said the IPO raised enough lic,” she said. Interestingly enough, for this IPO, firms, and other factors. For fee-only status see NAPFA.org. for Gemcabene and laying the money to fund all three trials and Sooch put her money where her she didn’t feel the need to bring in Minimum Investment Requirement: $500,000 in Michigan groundwork to enroll patients for a get Gemphire through the rst half mouth was regarding the IPO. To another veteran of public compa- third trial, all of which are expected of 2018. show her faith in gemcabene and nies. CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // JANUARY 9, 2017 11 SPECIAL REPORT: NEWSMAKERS OF THE YEAR SPECIAL REPORT: NEWSMAKERS OF THE YEAR to really be competitive in our state. Donald Trump recognized that early on,” Romney McDaniel said. “He Kirk Steudle was coming here and talking to Michiganders about issues that reso- Director, Michigan Department nated with them and their homes — of Transportation fair trade, Obamacare, jobs, econo- my — and it didn’t take really any By Dustin Walsh it. He understood the technology convincing to get him to invest in [email protected] and gave me the legs to get out and Michigan.” Kirk Steudle has kept an orange push the plan.” Trump, though, was not an ordi- safety vest in the trunk of his car at plan was to become the lead- nary candidate. On the campaign since he joined the Michigan Depart- ing state in e orts to connect vehi- trail, he made disparaging comments ment of Transportation more than 30 cles to infrastructure and make way about women, minorities and people years ago. Yet the danger he’s faced for the region’s automotive industry with disabilities, and has used his since becoming director in 2006 sits to build a new future. is expanded Twitter account both during and af- in the Michigan State Capitol, not in well beyond the traditional role of ter the election to criticize the press a driver’s seat. state road agencies. and comment on foreign a airs. Most recently, Steudle was target- “A lot of people still believe the Romney McDaniel said she did ed by Democrat representatives in DOT is just a (department of public not agree with everything Trump 2015 during the state’s chaotic works) garage and workers that ll said, but his position on key issues road-funding debate. State Rep. Scott potholes and plow snow,” Steudle won over voters. Dianda, D-Calumet, a former MDOT said. “We’re so much more. We have His use of social media, she said, employee, described Steudle as “a access to federal funds, cutting-edge could be a way to connect with poor steward of the taxpayers’ dol- research on asphalt, bridge con- “No other state DOT was talking test bed. e center broke ground younger voters who buck party a li- lars” and called for his resignation. struction, etc. What we did was to Kirk Steudle is the godfather of the to auto companies and suppliers, so last year, and the rst phase will be ation in favor of identifying with in- Steudle persevered, as he has when direct a portion of those funds to state’s mobility eorts, which reached we did,” Steudle said. “Before, the completed by the end of this year. dividual candidates that share their these issues crop up. He’s been loathed make a much larger impact for our new heights in 2016. only intersection of the auto indus- Steudle doesn’t know if he’ll be values. and adored from both sides of the aisle, state. We harnessed technology.” try and the DOT was the tire and the retained as MDOT’s director follow- “He’s created a great platform to but his legacy won’t rest on road fund- e result is hundreds of miles of technologies locally, as opposed to road. at’s been blurred signi - ing Snyder’s departure in 2019, but reach out to the people who sup- ing or reconstruction. Steudle is the Michigan highways equipped with places like California, Nevada and cantly. We’re all here to provide mo- he hopes the framework he estab- ported him, and why would we he godfather of the state’s mobility e orts, advanced sensors, ranging from Florida. e state doubled down on bility, to provide a transportation lished remains. turn that messaging over to a mid- which reached new heights in 2016. road weather stations that are capa- Steudle’s e orts in December, en- network to improve economic de- “I want this conversation so in- dleman who may not be able to ac- “I started talking about how cars ble of sending weather-related acting a series of bills that made velopment and quality of life.” grained that these partnerships curately articulate what he’s trying to were going to talk to each other in warnings to vehicles, a truck parking Michigan the most open and wel- MDOT is now a partner in several continue to develop,” he said. say?” she said. “ is is a new age of 2006, how cars would become safer information and management sys- coming location for companies public-private partnerships, includ- “Frankly, if I can look back and say politics, but I think the people who and more intelligent, but I didn’t re- tem, red light warning communica- looking to test driverless vehicles. ing the American Center for Mobility we created something that brought support Donald Trump appreciate ally know what that meant,” Steudle tion and many more abilities. Steudle played a critical role, in Ypsilanti Township, which is in- these di erent audiences together that he’s going to continue to reach said. “When (Gov. Rick) Snyder got Now, the industry can test ad- along with the state’s industry, in its tended to be the state’s pre-eminent to give independence to the young, out to them directly.” in o ce, the concept took o . He got vanced connected and autonomous language. connected and autonomous vehicle to the old, I’ll be quite happy.”
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Horizon Global Corp. (NYSE: HZN), which closed in October on the $190 Sam Valenti III million acquisition of Westfalia-Au- M. Roy Wilson tomotive Holding GmbH and TeIJs Chairman and CEO, Valenti Capital LLC, Holding BV, two companies that President, Wayne State University Bloomfield Hills; co-founder, V5 Partners LLC, make towing components, from a Bloomfield Hills German investor consortium led by By Sherri Welch DPE Deutsche Private Equity. [email protected] By Tom Henderson e deal boosted shares in Horizon Under the direction of President [email protected] Sam Valenti was involved in a string of Global to nearly $20 a share, up from a M. Roy Wilson, Wayne State Universi- Sam Valenti was involved in a headline-making events in 2016, some low of $8.25 in November 2015. It ty made news on many fronts last string of headline-making events in with his name prominently attached, gave Horizon Global annual revenue year, from increasing enrollment and 2016, some with his name prominent- others with him playing an active but of $850 million, well on the way to Val- research dollars and raising a record ly attached, others with him playing behind-the-scenes role. enti’s goal of growing the business to amount of donations to breaking an active but behind-the-scenes role. $1 billion a year when he spun it out ground on the new Mike Ilitch School e biggest headlines came in Oc- 2015, Ann Arbor-based Arboretum from Bloom eld Hills-based TriMas of Business and brokering a new clini- tober, when Crain’s broke the news Ventures LLC raised the largest VC fund Corp. (Nasdaq: TRS) in July 2015. cal services agreement with the De- that V5 Partners LLC, a new ven- in state history, $220 million, which After the deal closed, Valenti troit Medical Center after months of ture-capital rm founded by him and surpassed the previous largest fund, turned over his co-chair seat to De- tense negotiations. his son, Sam Valenti IV, had raised the $180 million raised in 2013 by nise Ilitch but remained on the Research funding to WSU rose to $150 million in capital and arranged Farmington Hills-based Beringea LLC. Horizon Global board. Valenti is also $200 million last year, capping con- a $50 million line of credit with a New Another big funding event found executive chairman at TriMas. secutive increases every year since York bank to fund its investments. Valenti playing an active but unher- In that capacity, in July this year, 2013 when Wilson joined the univer- eir business model is to com- alded role. It was the surprise an- he negotiated the departure of Da- sity. Including funding for chemical bine the younger Valenti’s contacts in nouncement in November that Amer- vid Wathen as president and CEO of trials at WSU’s cancer institute, total Silicon Valley with the elder Valenti’s ican Axle & Manufacturing Holdings the diversi ed manufacturing com- funding reached $243 million last contacts with Midwest manufactur- Inc. was buying Metaldyne Perfor- pany after a decline in sales and was year as Wilson led a shift to a team ing rms. V5 will invest in promising mance Group Inc. in a $3.3 billion deal active in the hiring of omas Ama- science approach in grant proposals technology rms that need to scale that would create a company with to as his replacement. Wathen had rather than individual researchers up production and revenue, then nearly $7 billion in revenue, a deal been CEO since 2009. applying for grants. help them nd large customers who criticized by some as coming at too August. Valenti said at the time he deal creates a $7 billion auto suppli- “It was an interesting year, when Last year the university stemmed can use their products. A focus will high a cost, which was a 50 percent planned to be an activist member of er with unparalleled engineering ca- you take it from the top. It was inter- enrollment declines for the rst time be on choosing the winners of the premium, above the 30 percent pre- the board and was a proponent of pabilities, gives American Axle new esting how it all came together,” said in seven years on the strength of its many emerging tech companies who mium for recent auto supplier deals. the Metaldyne deal. customers in new product catego- Valenti, who is also on the board of the graduate programs, nursing program want to create products or services Valenti joined American Axle’s Valenti said the premium paid by ries and establishes a powerful base Zell Lurie Institute at the Ross School of and the Mike Ilitch School of Busi- for connected and autonomous cars. board in November 2013, lling the American Axle was worth it because for further acquisition.” Business at the University of Michigan ness. Total enrollment for the fall se- e $200 million total is large by seat of former chairman and CEO Metaldyne “is a world leader in forg- A lesser deal he was involved in and on the endowment committee of mester was 27,326, up 104 students Michigan standards. In September Richard Dauch after his death that ing, casting and powdered metal, the was as co-chairman of Troy-based the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. or 0.4 percent from fall 2015.
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Horizon Global Corp. (NYSE: HZN), Contract negotiations broke down which closed in October on the $190 Under the in early September between the two million acquisition of Westfalia-Au- M. Roy Wilson direction of over the issue of whether DMC could tomotive Holding GmbH and TeIJs President M. Roy continue to recruit physicians em- Holding BV, two companies that President, Wayne State University Wilson, Wayne ployed by Wayne State University make towing components, from a State University Physician Group. Wayne State wanted German investor consortium led by By Sherri Welch In June, it dropped its math require- made news on a “nonsolicitation of physicians” DPE Deutsche Private Equity. [email protected] ment in the general education curricu- many fronts last clause in its contracts with DMC to e deal boosted shares in Horizon Under the direction of President lum until 2018, as part of a general year, from protect its business interests. DMC Global to nearly $20 a share, up from a M. Roy Wilson, Wayne State Universi- overhaul of its general education re- increasing o cials refused, saying they couldn’t low of $8.25 in November 2015. It ty made news on many fronts last quirements that will include new math enrollment and agree to that for various business gave Horizon Global annual revenue year, from increasing enrollment and courses and other new requirements research dollars and regulatory reasons. of $850 million, well on the way to Val- research dollars and raising a record for courses in things like diversity and and raising a e two academic health partners enti’s goal of growing the business to amount of donations to breaking community engagement. record amount of arrived at an 18-month contract in $1 billion a year when he spun it out ground on the new Mike Ilitch School After some backlash, WSU has ac- donations to early October, about six weeks after from Bloom eld Hills-based TriMas of Business and brokering a new clini- celerated the timeline to reintroduce breaking ground DMC negotiators walked out of con- Corp. (Nasdaq: TRS) in July 2015. cal services agreement with the De- the math requirement. It would like on the new Mike tract talks and Wayne State o cials After the deal closed, Valenti troit Medical Center after months of to have something completed on Ilitch School of threatened privately to begin talks turned over his co-chair seat to De- tense negotiations. math by fall 2018, before rolling out Business and with Henry Ford Health System, sourc- nise Ilitch but remained on the Research funding to WSU rose to the new general education curricu- brokering a new es told Crain’s at the time. Terms of the Horizon Global board. Valenti is also $200 million last year, capping con- lum, Wilson said. clinical services contract were con dential. executive chairman at TriMas. secutive increases every year since Wilson, who was also a Crain’s agreement with e value systems of WSU and In that capacity, in July this year, 2013 when Wilson joined the univer- Newsmaker in 2014, last year helped the Detroit DMC, which is owned by Dal- he negotiated the departure of Da- sity. Including funding for chemical broker a deal with Rhode Island-based Medical Center. las-based Tenet Healthcare Corp., one vid Wathen as president and CEO of trials at WSU’s cancer institute, total Corvias that will bring 842 new units of of the nation’s largest investor-owned the diversi ed manufacturing com- funding reached $243 million last housing through two new residential our balance sheet, we pay o our Among the large gifts secured hospital chains, are very di erent, pany after a decline in sales and was year as Wilson led a shift to a team buildings by the fall 2018. Under the debt and allow them to manage all during the year was a $5 million do- Wilson said in December. “Trying to active in the hiring of omas Ama- science approach in grant proposals deal, Corvias will manage the univer- housing but we keep land and facili- nation from both Dan Gilbert and develop a partnership when our val- to as his replacement. Wathen had rather than individual researchers sity’s housing, while WSU maintains ties, has only been done one other Stephen Ross. And a $40 million gift ues are so di erent was di cult; it been CEO since 2009. applying for grants. ownership of the land and all of the place,” the University of Georgia, Wil- that Wilson helped secure late in 2015 took a long time to get this done.” “It was an interesting year, when Last year the university stemmed facilities. Corvias will pay WSU $1.4 son said. But other universities are led to the July groundbreaking on the Wilson said that WSU intends to you take it from the top. It was inter- enrollment declines for the rst time billion over the 40-year term of the now looking at the model. Mike Ilitch School of Business. use the 18-month term of the renego- esting how it all came together,” said in seven years on the strength of its contract, with initial investments used During its scal 2016 ended Sept. For much of the year WSU, the ac- tiated contract to do some lon- Valenti, who is also on the board of the graduate programs, nursing program immediately to pay o $102 million in 30, WSU raised a record $131 million ademic partner for the Detroit Medi- ger-term planning. Zell Lurie Institute at the Ross School of and the Mike Ilitch School of Busi- existing housing debt and future pay- in gifts and pledges. Wilson brought cal Center, was embroiled in at-times “We continue to talk with potential Business at the University of Michigan ness. Total enrollment for the fall se- ments used to maintain the buildings veteran fundraiser Susan Burns back acrimonious negotiations with the partners; we have residents and med- and on the endowment committee of mester was 27,326, up 104 students and fund other strategic needs. to her alma mater in February to head for-pro t hospital for a new clinical ical students at other institutions,” he the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. or 0.4 percent from fall 2015. “ is way of doing it, where it’s o up development e orts. services agreement. said.
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grant success stories. at encounter KRAMER led to the $20 million gift to Henry Ford Fournier named Crain’s publisher FROM PAGE 1 Health System and the creation of the aspired to be the editor or publisher Vattikuti Urology Institute. Ron Fournier, an award-winning “ is is an incredible honor,” of a community newspaper and help It’s been a remarkable ride. But now journalist who returned home to De- “This is such an Fournier said. “Building on Mary’s set a community agenda. it’s time for new leadership. My role at troit after a 20-year career in Wash- exciting time for foundation, Crain’s will serve the His response: en you’ll love this Crain’s will remain “group publisher” ington, has been named publisher Crain’s Detroit Southeast Michigan business com- job because that’s what Crain’s is — a in Detroit and Cleveland. But Ron is and editor of Crain’s Detroit Busi- munity in two ways: An indispens- community paper but for a very specif- running the show in Detroit. I’m focus- ness, replacing the company’s Business and the able source of business news and, ic community: people doing business ing on speci c initiatives, such as the groundbreaking leader Mary Kram- city of Detroit.” through its independent custom in metro Detroit. annual Detroit Homecoming we creat- er. content division, high-utility mar- He was right. ed in 2014 as well as talent-related ini- Kramer recruited Fournier to KC Crain, executive vice president keting and events consulting.” Crain’s has enjoyed — and I think tiatives like the Michigan Women’s Di- Crain’s four months ago, naming of Crain Communications Inc. He called Kramer a mentor and earned — a special connection with rectory to help companies nd diverse him associate publisher as part of friend. “When my wife and I decided our readers. We deliver signi cant talent for their company boards, and her succession planning. She will re- three years ago to move back home, news and data to business readers, and the Crain’s Leadership Academy. (See main with Crain’s as group publish- also shifts resources from print to we had no idea where to start. en we take pride that the information of- story, Page 4.) er, consulting with Fournier and his digital platforms. along came Mary Kramer and the ten leads to new business opportuni- Ron will build the quality and im- team on major revenue initiatives Before coming to Crain’s, Fourni- Detroit Homecoming, and now I’m a ties that bene t companies, careers pact that Crain’s has for readers in our such as the Detroit Homecoming er was a nationally acclaimed politi- proud ‘ex-expat,’” Fournier said. and even nonpro ts. region and our state. As other news and Crain’s Leadership Academy. cal columnist for the National Jour- Kramer is a seasoned expert with ree examples: media have been shrinking news sta s, As publisher and editor, Fournier nal and e Atlantic, both owned by more than 40 years of reporting and Just last week, I spoke with a local Ron has already created a structure to will be responsible for sales, audi- the Atlantic Media Co. He also served management experience. She joined entrepreneur who had been a featured expand our news team. You’ll nd ence development and editorial op- for two years as editor-in-chief of the Crain’s Detroit Business in 1989, and speaker at a Crain event last summer. more about Ron and his big-league erations of Crain’s Detroit Business. National Journal. Prior to joining At- in 1990 was named associate pub- He told me that his turn on stage led to journalism background in another sto- “ is is such an exciting time for lantic Media, he was the Washington lisher. In May 1994, Kramer was 20 new clients for his new consulting ry that starts on Page 1. Crain’s Detroit Business and the city bureau chief and a 20-year veteran named a vice president of Crain business. Together with Director of Sales Lisa of Detroit,” said KC Crain, executive of e Associated Press wire service. Communications, and in May 2005, Last summer, reporter Tom Hen- Rudy, now just three weeks into her vice president of Crain Communica- Fournier’s acclaimed 2016 par- she was named publisher. derson learned that his coverage of a role, they will lead our brand into new tions Inc. “We couldn’t be happier to enting memoir, Love at Boy: What In 2012, she was named group new $250 million family o ce in ventures but with the same philoso- have Ron take over the publisher Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, publisher at Crain Communications, downtown Birmingham prompted an- phy: Journalism matters. Without news role. His experience will continue to and My Son Taught Me About a Par- supervising Crain’s Cleveland Busi- other local investment group to reach that matters to our readers, we have position Crain’s as the go-to news ent’s Expectations, debuted at No. 10 ness in addition to Detroit. Today, out to the principals who they had no nothing to o er our advertising clients brand for the city.” on Amazon.com and spent multiple she is active in many Detroit-area idea were literally a stone’s throw away. who want to share that special connec- In the last half of 2016, Fournier weeks on the New York Times business and civic organizations, in- e result: Two funds that were near tion to our readers. worked with Kramer to reorganize best-seller list. He is the co-author of cluding several that support at-risk neighbors are now sharing investment Lisa and Ron are working closely Crain’s newsroom, focusing its best the New York Times best-selling Ap- girls and education. She is a trustee opportunities and may do some deals with KC Crain, Keith’s son and the reporters on high-end enterprise re- plebee's America: How Successful Po- of both the Skillman Foundation in together. next-generation leader for our entire porting to deepen Crain’s coverage litical, Business, and Religious Lead- Detroit and Grand Valley State Univer- One of my all-time favorite Crain-in- company. while building a breaking news team ers Connect with the New American sity in the Grand Rapids area. She spired outcomes: the rekindling of a I can’t wait to see where the new to broaden it. Kramer named him Community, which examined the was also the rst woman to be elect- dormant connection at a reception for team leads this remarkable institu- editor and associate publisher after shared attributes of successful chief ed president of the historic Detroit Crain’s 100 American Dreamer immi- tion. they implemented the plan, which executives. Athletic Club.
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Chip Erwin and Molly Ransom tons will build a team headquarters Fund, United Way of Genesee County’s e Pistons relocation deal also and practice facility at a cost of up to Flint Water Fund and the American comes with community bene ts: to The Locniskar Group $55 million near the arena. Gores’ Red Cross, which is coordinating re- Gores agreed to spend more than $2 Palace Sports & Entertainment unit lief e orts in Flint and operating the million to build about 60 basketball Connecting your financial life to what matters most begins will become part of a joint venture of Volunteer Reception Center for peo- courts in parks throughout Detroit with a conversation. Chip and Molly can work with you to theaters and amphitheaters with the ple to help with the distribution of over the next six years. In addition, it’s cultivate a deep understanding of your priorities and the life Ilitches’ Olympia Entertainment. water, water lters, replacement car- also expected to include 20,000 free you want to live. Quite simply, your goals are theirs. e Pistons move is the splashiest tridges and water testing kits. Pistons tickets per year for Detroit stu- part of Gores’ wider business strate- He also provided more than dents and residents. Other communi- The Locniskar Group gy of making business, civic and $500,000 to match a telethon that ty bene ts components include hav- philanthropic investments in Detroit raised $1.1 million for Flint. He said ing at least 51 percent of the hours ® Edward James (Chip) Erwin III, CFA and elsewhere in Michigan. he intends to do more in the future. worked on the construction of the Senior Vice President –Wealth Management While his decision to bring the “I think we’ve made a di erence, practice facility be done by Detroiters; Private Wealth Manager Pistons home drew applause for civ- and I’m proud of the work we’ve at least 30 percent of the value of all 248.655.4117 ic pride, Gores’ most important ac- done so far, but there is a lot more to construction contracts related to the complishment locally may be his in- do. I’ve always viewed this as a long- practice facility be given to De- Molly S. Ransom vestment in helping his hometown term initiative,” Gores said in troit-based companies; a $100,000 do- Vice President of Flint. He took the lead last year on emailed comments last week. nation to the Detroit Employment Financial Advisor private-sector aid for Flint’s drinking Gores, a 1982 Genesee High School Solutions Corp.; and mentorship op- 248.655.4107 water catastrophe by creating the graduate who went to Michigan State portunities. FlintNOW campaign that has made University, has promised that 100 per- e Pistons aren’t Gores’ only De- Merrill Lynch available $25 million in direct aid for cent of all donations to the FlintNOW troit sports investment: He’s in a 2600 West Big Beaver Road, Suite 500 those a ected. Fund will be distributed to programs joint venture with fellow billionaire Troy, MI 48084 Gores, who grew up in suburban that directly support its mission, with and sports mogul Dan Gilbert to Flint after his family emigrated from full transparency and without admin- bring a Major League Soccer team and his native Israel when he was 4, in istrative overhead or fees. Leading stadium downtown. at idea was January 2016 announced creation of FlintNOW for him are Platinum Equity hatched in April, and plans for a $1 bil- FlintNOW, an initiative aimed at partner Mark Barnhill and Palace Vice lion stadium and mixed-use develop- raising $10 million in corporate and Chairman Arn Tellem. ment on the site of the un nished organization funding intended for It was Tellem, the noted su- Wayne County jail were made public Merrill Lynch Wealth Management makes available products and services offered by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, a registered broker-dealer and Member SIPC, and immediate water relief and long- per-agent and deal-maker, whom to much fanfare. e e ort remains in other subsidiaries of Bank of America Corporation. term economic development, nutri- Gores hired in 2015 as vice chairman limbo while the jail site’s fate is negoti- The Private Banking and Investment Group is a division of MLPF&S that offers a broad array of tion and health care in Flint and of Palace Sports & Entertainment to ated. personalized wealth management products and services. Genesee County. lead investment strategy. “We are still working through the Investment products: Two months later, Gores an- Gores has also put money into process. I’m going to speak with (MLS Are Not FDIC Insured Are Not Bank Guaranteed May Lose Value nounced a joint e ort with Columbus, youth programs, education and Commissioner) Don Garber in the The Bull Symbol, Life’s better when we’re connected and Merrill Lynch are trademarks of Ohio-based Huntington Bank — which scholarships. next few weeks, and I’m excited to Bank of America Corporation. CFA® is a registered trademark of the CFA Institute. has nine branches in Genesee County Other examples of his involve- make the case for Detroit. I know we © 2016 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved. ARH66C34 | AD-11-16-0147 | 470958PM-0216 | 11/2016 — to make $25 million available in the ment include being part of the - have everything we need here for a form of loans and grants for business- nancing of new police cars and am- team to succeed,” Gores said. es, entrepreneurs and residents of bulances for the city of Detroit, and Gores said he plans to make further Flint and Genesee County a ected by the Pistons pledged $1 million over investments in Michigan, not just in the ongoing water crisis. 20 years as part of the Detroit Insti- Detroit and Flint. Gores isn’t doing it alone: Helping tute of Arts’ $100 million pledge in “We will support programs that administer and manage the e orts the “grand bargain” settlement of bene t everyone,” he said. “From a are the Flint-based Charles Stewart the city’s bankruptcy. business standpoint, there is a lot of Mott Foundation, Community Founda- Gores and his private equity rm, opportunity. We invest in automotive, tion of Greater Flint, Flint & Genesee Los Angeles-based Platinum Equity, transportation and logistics, manufac- Chamber of Commerce, Metro Com- in 2015 spent $50,000 for LED light- turing and many other industries. munity Development and the Michi- ing to replace the broken lights on ere is a lot of opportunity through- gan Economic Development Corp. the MacArthur Bridge to Belle Isle in out Michigan. In addition to several “ is is exactly the kind of pri- time for the annual Grand Prix. Oth- Detroit-area companies, we invested vate-sector partnership we envi- er e orts have included Gores do- in a boat manufacturing business in sioned when we launched Flint- nating $75,000 to former Detroit Cadillac, for instance, that was very NOW,” Gores said in a statement at Mayor Dave Bing’s youth mentoring successful. I think Michigan has a lot the time of the announcement. “ e program, and $250,000 donations to of exciting potential, and I expect government is responsible for xing the Rose Leadership Academy in De- we’ll do more.” the water supply in Flint, but we’re troit and a Lansing scholarship pro- Bill Shea: (313) 446-1626 all responsible for xing the commu- gram with Magic Johnson. Twitter: @Bill_Shea19
changes, Alberts said. wondering who gets the 2 extra feet.” SPACE As of last ursday, NAIAS sta e show oor now ts together FROM PAGE 3 had drafted 56 iterations of the oor down to the last millimeter, Alberts “ ere’s always pushback, but it’s plan for this year’s show, which runs said. None of Cobo’s more than hard to argue with penetration and through Jan. 22, but they’ll likely 700,000 square feet of concrete oor products; these rules apply to every- reach 60 before the doors open, he is exposed. Alberts calls the layout one,” Alberts said. “It’s not arbitrary, said. at gure is down signi cant- “pristine.” and we’re precise on every detail of ly from last year, when an avalanche Critical to the plan is lines of the formula.” of brand-new displays made the sight, allowing attendees to see from For instance, Ford Motor Co. will puzzle harder to assemble. Last one end of the show to another from occupy 49,106 square feet at Cobo. year, Alberts and his sta drafted any one of the major aisles, Alberts at gure is calculated using Ford’s 163 oor plans. said. 14 percent North American market Alberts used to draft the oor “ ere is no lakefront property,” share, its 16 models available on the plan on a lightboard with a pencil Alberts said. “(Exhibitors) can’t ar- continent and its world debuts in and ruler in the early days of his ten- gue with being in the middle of the the past. Ford debuted the 2017 ure. Now it’s done internally by his show oor. ere’s an ease to going Ford Fusion and 2017 F-150 Raptor sta using software. It has to be pre- through our show and a buzz from SuperCrew at last year’s show. cise. the ambiance of being able to see Alberts begins the next year’s for- “In the late 1990s, we mismea- across the room. Our customers are mula as soon as each show ends in sured by 2 feet, and two displays the media and (automakers), and late January, but it’s not completely bumped into each other,” Alberts we take pride in what we’ve built.” solidi ed until days before the next said. “ e builders designed the Dustin Walsh: (313) 446-6042 show. ere are always last-minute build on our specs ands were left Twitter: @dustinpwalsh CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // JANUARY 9, 2017 17
the MEDC to get involved with the ini- cus more of that work in Michigan. PLANET M tiative. Flex is involved in 12 business- is initiative should help others to do FROM PAGE 3 es, including a $2 billion automotive more of the same.” e MEDC and its partners will unit dedicated to autonomous, con- Glenn Stevens, executive director of spend $250,000 in 2017 on sponsor- nected and electri cation vehicle tech- the Detroit Regional Chamber’s MichAu- ships, creating “Shark Tank”-style nology. Its U.S. headquarters is located to, an automotive advocacy group that events where California startups pitch in Silicon Valley. Flextronics employs works closely with the MEDC, said the Michigan’s auto players and, ultimate- 600 in Michigan and its customers in- auto companies are now technology ly, set up a state economic develop- clude Ford, General Motors Co., Tata companies, so aligning with the world’s ment o ce in Silicon Valley. Addition- Technologies Inc., FCA US LLC, etc. greatest idea generators is important. al funds will be spent on marketing the Chris Obey, president of Flextronics “A lot of these entrepreneurs have concept, Pawl said. Automotive, speaking from the Con- this perception that the traditional e state plans to become a sponsor sumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas auto companies move slow,” Stevens of Santa Clara, Calif.-based processor last week, said Flextronics is often over- said. “ at’s just not true. With pro- maker Nvidia Corp.’s GPU Technology looked in the automotive conversation grams like this, we’re able to change Conference in San Jose, Calif., in May. because its U.S. headquarters is in Sili- this perception and show them how Planet M would be marketed and state con Valley, where automakers look automotive is a real target market.” economic agencies would be present, more to Delphi Automotive plc and Tim Yerdon, director of marketing once a deal is reached, Pawl said. e Robert Bosch LLC that have more estab- and communications for Van Buren conference attracts global scientists, lished relationships. Township-based Visteon Corp. and engineers and entrepreneurs focused “We’re trying to get recognized as a chairman of MichAuto’s talent and re- on arti cial intelligence, virtual reality tier-one supplier in the auto sector, so tention committee, said getting prod- and driverless cars. being on top of a contact initiative like ucts to market is now the auto indus- e goal of the initiative is to create this is important,” Obey said. “We’re try’s greatest challenge. or be involved in 12 events between Sil- looking to continue to invest in the De- “It’s all about how quickly we can icon Valley and Michigan. troit area, so we want to help bring our get these new (automotive) functions Pawl said too often Michigan’s auto knowledge base in Silicon Valley to De- to market,” Yerdon said. “Anything the industry is used as the commercializa- troit as it becomes a larger and larger state can do to expedite that is another tion piece of the supply chain, losing out tech zone and an autonomous vehicle feather in our cap and to the state and on the pro table aspects of innovation. center.” industry.” “We’ve spent years touting that Flex, and Flextronics, is the sort of Stevens said the Silicon Valley plan we’re the auto capital, that we have 375 multifaceted business Detroit wants to is the rst in what he hopes will be a full (research and development) centers,” attract. Flex’s business lines include expansion of the state’s economic Pawl said. “But what happens too often manufacturing of 80 percent of the prowess across the country. is a raw idea comes from, say, Japan, world’s wearable devices, including all “ ere’s real opportunity with the then to Silicon Valley for early-stage of the activity trackers for San Francis- Valley, but not limited to just there,” development, then to testing in Ten- co-based Fitbit Inc. It supplies custom- Stevens said. “ ere’s opportunity in nessee, then to Farmington Hills for ers in the connected home, energy, Austin or Boston or other parts of the validation. We’re the last stop on the server, storage and mobile elds. world. It’s not just about accelerating innovation chain. We need to be stop “Speed is currency and the world is something that’s happening today, but number two. We need to be the inno- moving faster and faster, and we’re connecting those with these ideas all vation center.” hoping to show Michigan’s auto sector over the world with the consumers Farmington Hills-based Flextronics how important it is to innovate at high (Michigan auto companies) of that Automotive USA Inc., a subsidiary of speed,” Obey said. “We’re working with technology.” Singapore technology conglomerate several local companies on autono- Dustin Walsh: (313) 446-6042 Flex Ltd., is already in discussions with mous projects, and we’re going to fo- Twitter: @dustinpwalsh
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp., e company’s real estate holdings Editor-in-Chief Keith E. Crain and what analysts have decried as a are “probably more important than Executive Vice President KC Crain The possibilities Size: 95,000 square feet cycle of underinvestment in stores, their brand,” she said. Ron Fournier, (313) 446-1674 or Publisher/Editor n , Plymouth Township, which many shoppers see as tired or Kmart locations already shuttered [email protected] Kmart Group Publisher Mary Kramer, (313) 446-0399 Civic complexes. Movie theaters. 40855 Ann Arbor Road lacking inventory. are attracting looks from sporting or [email protected] Grocery stores. Hunting and shing “If you are going to go for a shop- goods retailers, health clubs like Plan- Owner: Sears Holdings Corp. Director, Digital Strategy, Audience Development outlets. New o ce space. ping experience, would you rather go et Fitness and home goods stores like Nancy Hanus, (313) 446-1621 or [email protected] All are possibilities for the soon-to- Size: 108,000 square feet there or a newer Target or a newer At Home, which moved into the for- Managing Editor Michael Lee, (313) 446-1630 or [email protected] be shuttered former Kmart properties, n Kmart, Roseville, 17580 Frazho Wal-Mart? e product line is very mer Kmart site on Telegraph Road in Managing Editor/Custom and Special Projects and that's just the start of it. Road thin,” said Christopher Brochert, Bloom eld Township. Kristin Bull, (313) 446-1608 or [email protected] “If you survey the market, there are partner of Bloom eld Hills-based At other sites, like the former Owner: Kmart Digital Editor Carlos Portocarrero (313) 446-6056 or very few of these box spaces left,” said shopping center and retail develop- Kmart on Grand River Avenue in [email protected] 149,000 square feet News Editor Beth Reeber Valone, (313) 446-5875 Michael Lippitt, co-owner of Farming- Size: ers and investors Lormax Stern Devel- Farmington Hills, a developer leveled or [email protected] ton Hills-based Landmark Commercial n Kmart, Waterford Township, 3541 opment Co. LLC, which owns Macomb the store and is constructing a new, Research and Data Editor Sonya Hill, (313) 446-0402 Real Estate Services Inc., a retail broker- Highland Road Mall in Roseville. mixed-use development, Ciura said. or [email protected] age rm. “A lot of those Kmart stores were Newsroom (313) 446-0329, FAX (313) 446-1687, Owner: Kamin Realty Corp. TIP LINE (313) 446-6766 “We have seen unique uses like built in the 1960s and early 1970s,” he Macy’s decline government o ces to entertainment Size: 102,000 square feet said. “ e ceilings are low, the build- REPORTERS uses with bounce houses to carving n Kmart, Westland, 165 S. Wayne ings are old, the infrastructure on the Last week, in conjunction with its Jay Greene, senior reporter Covers health care, the spaces up for things like Hobby buildings is poor. Basically, they’ve announcement of continued store insurance, energy, utilities and the environment. Road Lobby, furniture stores like Art Van Fur- got to be gutted.” closures, Macy’s said its sales during (313) 446-0325 or [email protected] Owner: AFP Fiy Corp. Chad Livengood Covers Detroit rising. (313) 446-1654 or niture, and boxes like Dick’s Sporting November and December were lower [email protected] Goods, TJ Maxx, car dealerships.” Size: 91,000 square feet Nothing o the table than expected. Kirk Pinho Covers real estate, city of Detroit. (313) For example, Westland, which was Its revenue declined by 2.1 percent n Macy’s, Eastland Center, Harper 446-0412 or [email protected] hit with not just a closure announce- Patrick Derrig and others have over the holidays when compared to Bill Shea, enterprise editor Covers media, advertising Woods, 18000 Vernier Road and marketing, the business of sports, and ment of its Kmart on South Wayne been preparing for the Macy’s closing the same two-month period in 2015. transportation. (313) 446-1626 or [email protected] Road but also its Macy's store in the Owners: Macy’s Inc.; Spinosa possibility for several months. e retailer saw double-digit gains Lindsay VanHulle, Lansing reporter. (517) 657-2204 Westland Shopping Center last week, Management Group Derrig, the marketing manager for in its online business at macys.com or [email protected] took a rotting, 64,000-square-foot Westland Shopping Center, said “pre- and bloomingdales.com, but store Dustin Walsh, senior reporter Covers the business of Cir- Size: 1.3 million square feet; law, auto suppliers, manufacturing and economics. cuit City electronics store and convert- 443,000 square feet for Macy’s liminary discussions" have been held sales “continued to be impacted by (313) 446-6042 or [email protected] ed it into its new city hall. about what to do with the store’s changing customer behavior,” Macy’s n Macy’s, Westland Shopping Sherri Welch, senior reporter Covers nonprots, Several old Kmart stores are be- 350,000 square feet at the 1.2 million- Chairman and CEO Terry Lundgren services, food and hospitality. (313) 446-1694 or Center, 35000 W. Warren Ave. [email protected] coming or have been converted into square-foot mall on West Warren Av- said in a release. Kroger Co. grocery stores in Commerce Owners: Macy’s Inc.; Namdar enue, which has an occupancy rate of Macy’s is “strategically cannibaliz- ADVERTISING Township on Union Lake Road, in Realty Group; Mason Asset about 98.5 percent. ing (its) brick-and-mortar stores rath- Sales Inquiries (313) 446-6032; FAX (313) 393-0997 Southgate on Fort Street and in War- Management Inc. “ ere were always discussions of er than let other retailers do it,” Nisch Director of Sales Lisa Rudy ren at 13 Mile and Schoenherr roads. the possibility that would take place,” said. Senior Account Manager Katie Sullivan Size: 1.2 million square feet; Advertising Sales Christine Galasso, Gerry Golinske, Another former Circuit City, this 350,000 for Macy’s he said. “We’ve had several discus- Rather than lose sales to Amazon, Diane Owen one in Troy outside Oakland Mall, was Sources: CoStar Group Inc.; sions about how to reimagine, repur- Macy’s is oering special pricing on- Classied Sales Manager Angela Schutte, demolished, with a Field & Stream Westland Shopping Center pose the space to better serve the line and black Friday events starting (313) 446-6051 store taking its place two years ago. needs of our shoppers. on Monday or Tuesday of anksgiv- Classied Sales Lynn Calcaterra, (313) 446-6086 Marketing/Events Director Kim Winkler Ford Motor Co. recon gured a for- “Nothing is o the table.” ing week, Nisch said. Events Manager Kacey Anderson mer Lord & Taylor department store in Sudden losses Failure to create an attractive store “ e consequence of that is they Senior Art Director Sylvia Kolaski Dearborn’s Fairlane Town Center into experience and relevant product of- are shifting sales in many cases from Special Projects Coordinator Keenan Covington o ce space, plus space in an adjacent Last week marked a retail blood- fering has hurt Kmart in recent years, their stores to their online channels.” Sales Support Suzanne Janik Media Services Director Geof Innis mall wing, taking 240,000 square feet. bath in metro Detroit. local retail experts said. With that in mind, Macy’s needs Media Services Manager Hussein Abdallah The Container Store, which special- Seven stores — ve Kmarts and Kmart has made very little capital smaller or dierent kinds of stores, izes in organizational and storage two Macy’s — representing an as- improvement in its stores to keep the Nisch said. He sees a brick-and-mor- CUSTOMER SERVICE products, opened in a former Best Buy tounding 1.34 million square feet and design fresh with competitors, and it’s tar store as becoming more of a show- Main Number: Call (877) 824-9374 store in Novi last year. hundreds of jobs, were wiped out failed to attract new or interesting room where people can get a better or [email protected] Subscriptions $59 one year, $98 two years. Out of state, And a former Kmart in Troy is now within several hours of each other brands that resonate with consumers, sense of the goods before buying $79 one year, $138 for two years. Outside U.S.A., add $48 the site of a 16-screen MJR movie the- with back-to-back announcements. said Ken Nisch, chairman of South- them online. per year to out-of-state rate for surface mail. Call (313) ater at Maple and Main in 2014. Kmart’s parent company, Illi- eld-based JGA, which designs e Eastland and Westland Macy’s 446-0450 or (877) 824-9374. At Southland Center in Taylor, a for- nois-based Sears Holding Corp., has branded environments for customers. locations are older stores with chang- Single Copies (877) 824-9374 Reprints (212) 210-0750; or Krista Bora at mer Mervyn’s department store site been shedding stores for years; Ma- e availability of health and ing demographics in the market [email protected] was likewise turned into a 12-screen cy’s announced the pending closure beauty goods, home goods and other around them that may not include To nd a date a story was published (313) 446-0406 Cinemark theater. of 100 stores in August, and just last non-food products core to Kmart’s their target customers. If sales aren’t or e-mail [email protected] But look no farther than Canton week announced the locations. oerings at stores consumers are al- optimal and the rent and other Crain’s Detroit Business is published by Township locally to see how to trans- e agship Kmart on Ford Road ready going to, like a Kroger Market- charges they are paying are costlier Crain Communications Inc. form a vacant box store. will close, as well as locations on Ann place store, has also dampened foot than what they are paying at more Chairman Keith E. Crain One of the biggest retail destina- Arbor Road in Plymouth Township, tra c at Kmart stores, he said. pro table stores, the deals (many in- President Rance Crain tions in the region, Ikea, opened its Frazho Road in Roseville, Highland e fact that Kmart’s customer herited from the days the stores oper- Treasurer Mary Kay Crain Senior Executive Vice President William A. Morrow rst Michigan location on the site of a Road in Waterford Township and base is the demographic that’s been ated as Hudson’s) don’t make sense, Executive Vice President/Director of Strategic former Super Kmart at Ford and Hag- South Wayne Road in Westland. most impacted by wage stagnation Ciura said. Operations Chris Crain gerty roads. Macy’s department stores in the and lack of liquidity as a result of the Overall, there’s likely to be more Executive Vice President/Director of Corporate Elsewhere around the country, for- Westland Shopping Center — after housing crisis hasn’t helped the re- rationalization of brick-and-mortar Operations KC Crain Vice President/Production & Manufacturing mer Kmarts have been transformed which the city is named — and in the tailer either, Nisch said. stores operated in Southeast Michi- Dave Kamis into ea markets, like one in Fayette- struggling Eastland Center in Harper “I think if you even look at the gan by national chains, Nisch said. Chief Financial Ocer Bob Recchia ville, N.C., and the headquarters for Woods will go dark, representing the Kmart ier 20 years ago and compare But he and Ciura both agree physical Chief Information Ocer Anthony DiPonio Hormel — plus a museum for its iconic loss of 227 jobs. Macy’s stores in them to now, there’s been little stores will not go away altogether. G.D. Crain Jr. Founder (1885-1973) Mrs. G.D. Crain Jr. Chairman (1911-1996) Spam product — in Austen, Minn. In Lakeview Square Mall in Battle Creek change,” said retail consultant Cindy Magnet stores such as those at The Editorial & Business Oces Missouri, a shuttered Kmart was turned and the Lansing Mall, employing 108, Ciura of CC Consulting in Bloom eld Somerset Collection, Twelve Oaks Mall, 1155 Gratiot Ave., Detroit MI 48207-2732; into a library, museum and cafe. will also close as part of the cost-cut- Hills. Lakeside Mall, The Mall at Partridge (313) 446-6000 In cases like those out of state, for ting move. In all, the closures mark Kmart has also had ongoing inven- Creek and Southland Center will Cable address: TWX 248-221-5122 AUTNEW DET example, it could be cost prohibitive one- fth of the company’s Michigan tory problems, she said, advertising grow. “ e losers will be legacy retail- CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS ISSN # 0882-1992 is published weekly for the local landlords to pursue such a stores. on-sale items in its circulars but not ers, those with mature retail foot- by Crain Communications Inc. at 1155 Gratiot Ave., Detroit MI strategy of dividing the spaces be- Outstate Kmart stores closing are having them in stock when custom- prints that are imbalanced or inap- 48207-2732. Periodicals postage paid at Detroit, MI and additional tween multiple tenants because divid- in Jackson, Adrian, Lansing, Muskeg- ers came to buy. propriate to the change in online and mailing o¥ces. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS, Circulation Department, P.O. Box 07925, Detroit, ing them costs about $65 per square on and Acme Township; a Sears store “You do that enough times, and physical shopping,” Nisch said. MI 48207-9732. GST # 136760444. Printed in U.S.A. foot, Agree said. So a 90,000-square- in Grand Rapids will also be lost. In your customers won’t come back,” Kirk Pinho: (313) 446-0412 Contents copyright 2016 by Crain Communications Inc. All rights foot Kmart building would cost ap- all, Sears Holding Corp. is closing 150 Ciura said. Twitter: @kirkpinhoCDB reserved. Reproduction or use of editorial content in any manner proximately $6 million to split into stores with an undisclosed number of e biggest asset the retailer has Sherri Welch: (313) 446-1694 without permission is prohibited. 30,000-square-foot blocks, he said. jobs aected. going for it is its real estate, Ciura said, Twitter: @SherriWelch CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // JANUARY 9, 2017 19 THE WEEK ON THE WEB RUMBLINGS DECEMBER 17-JANUARY 6 Lions hit 1 million ment Institute, according to a state- 6 metro Detroit Detroit Digits ment by the two nonpro t health care consulting organizations. Twitter followers A numbers-focused look at last Limited stores J Detroit-based In-House Realty, e Detroit Lions reached 1 mil- numbers, obviously, will have in- week’s headlines: part of the Quicken Loans Family of lion Twitter followers at 2:03 p.m. creased from when they were ini- set to close Companies, said it will buy a Toron- Wednesday when Kody Larsen tially gathered: ix The Limited stores in metro $48 million to-based technology group and its (@larsen_kody) followed the team J New England Patriots: 2,804,916 Detroit were set to close by The amount of a settlement proprietary technology platform on the social network at @Lions. J Dallas Cowboys: 2,367,267 Sunday, part of the Ohio- between Troy-based United from OpenHouse Realty, a Santa Detroit was the 16th National J Denver Broncos: 2,016,241 Sbased clothing retailer’s announce- Shore Financial Services LLC Monica, Calif., residential real estate team to reach the J Carolina Panthers: 1,931,964 Football League ment Friday that it would shutter all and the U.S. Department of company. Terms were not disclosed. 1 million follower mark. Among J Pittsburgh Steelers: 1,679,599 its brick-and-mortar stores at the Justice. The agency said United J International Bancard Corp. plans local teams, the Lions trail only J Seattle Seahawks: 1,623,442 end of the weekend. e company Shore failed to comply with federal to grow its payroll by up to 50 em- the Detroit Tigers in Twitter follow- J Green Bay Packers: 1,513,175 had locations in Somerset Collection requirements aer it issued ployees in the next two years in its ers. J Philadelphia Eagles: 1,439,210 and Oakland Mall in Troy, Laurel Place hundreds of “materially decient” new space in Detroit. About 70 em- A glance at the 32 NFL team to- J San Francisco 49ers: 1,437,744 in Livonia, Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi, mortgages. ployees work out of the new head- J New York Gi- Great Lakes Crossing in Auburn Hills quarters at 1505 Woodward Ave. ants: 1,330,716 and Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights. $55 million J e former Varsity Shop Inc. build- J Chicago Bears: The sale price being paid by a San ing in downtown Birmingham has 1,283,163 Diego-based real estate sold to C. Michael Kojaian, owner of J Houston Tex- COMPANY NEWS investment trust for a parking J Six companies owned by Ambas- Bloom eld Hills-based real estate ans: 1,232,229 deck west of the Renaissance sador Bridge owner Manuel “Matty” company Kojaian Management Corp. J Atlanta Falcons: Center in Detroit. The deck is being Moroun led a year-end lawsuit in Kojaian is the registered agent on 277 1,073,884 purchased by an entity aliated the Michigan Court of Claims that Development Associates LLC; Oak- J New York Jets: with MVP REIT Inc. from Center seeks to stop the Michigan Depart- land County land records show that 1,054,720 Parking Associates Limited ment of Transportation from con- entity purchasing the building in J New Orleans Partnership, which is registered demning parcels of land that ve of September from the Secontine Family Saints: 1,009,284 to Bloomeld Hills attorney Moroun’s companies own that sit in Limited Partnership. J Detroit Lions: Lawrence Jackier. The Detroit Lions reached 1 million Twitter followers about the pathway of the long-planned J Troy-based supplier Delphi Auto- 2 p.m. Wednesday — and the number continued to grow. 1,000,000 Gordie Howe International Bridge $700 million motive plc acquired Plymouth Town- J Baltimore Ra- linking Detroit and Canada. The planned investment by Ford ship-based over-the-air software up- vens: 997,202 J e developer behind the Village Motor Co. at its Flat Rock date provider Movimento Inc. Terms tals suggests that Twitter follower J Oakland Raiders: 887,479 at Bloom eld project in Bloom eld Assembly Plant as part of a new were not disclosed; Movimento will level is fueled by several factors: J Washington Redskins: 858,194 Township and Pontiac expects to plan to bring to market 13 remain an independent entity. Traditional popularity of the team, J Cleveland Browns: 779,041 bring a new Menard Inc. store to the electried vehicles. Ford J The Lark restaurant in West Bloom- its current success level, market J Minnesota Vikings: 766,846 87-acre site. An executive from announced it would cancel its eld Township is back up for sale, size and the team’s level of social J Kansas City Chiefs: 759,854 South eld-based Redico LLC de- $1.6 billion assembly plant in after an initial plan to sell it fell media activity. Struggling teams in J Indianapolis Colts: 735,926 clined to identify the Eau Claire, Mexico aer criticism from through. e Lark closed in Decem- smaller markets mostly ll out the J Miami Dolphins: 734,865 Wis.-based home improvement re- President-elect Donald Trump. ber 2015 after 35 years of business. bottom third of the list. J Cincinnati Bengals: 661,597 tailer as the tenant going into a Seven of the top 10 most-fol- J Bu alo Bills: 649,228 planned 236,000-square-foot build- OTHER NEWS lowed NFL teams are from the Na- J San Diego Chargers: 615,284 ing on the site, but an amended site proached. Icahn, through a subsidi- J Jim Caldwell, often a target of fan tional Football Conference. J Arizona Cardinals: 612,305 plan led with township o cials ary of his Icahn Enterprises LP, o ered and media criticism, will return next Here are the Twitter follower to- J Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 561,239 identi es Menard. $10 per share, up from a previous o er season for the nal year of his con- tals for the NFL’s 32 clubs, collected J Tennessee Titans: 506,784 J e sale of the former Robert Scott of $9.25, to acquire the remaining tract as coach of the Detroit Lions, the at approximately the same time the J Los Angeles Rams: 454,862 Correctional Facility site in Northville shares of Federal-Mogul the rm does team con rmed. Caldwell has led Lions surpassed 1 million. e J Jacksonville Jaguars: 407,249 Township was completed as the not own — about 18 percent. the Lions to the National Football township announced the $8.5 mil- J Detroit-based iRule LLC, a maker of League playo s in two of his three lion sale of the 53-acre site to North- cloud-based controls for consumer, seasons in Detroit. ville Five LLC, an a liate of Farming- corporate and institutional enter- J After a championship football ton Hills-based Pinnacle Homes. tainment systems, was sold to Kram- season at Western Michigan Universi- Center to honor Ferriby Initial plans were to develop the site er Electronics Ltd., a provider of audio ty, P.J. Fleck is leaving to become into a Village at Northville project and video systems based in Israel. head coach at the University of Min- as philanthropic scholar with residences, retail, restaurants Financial terms were not disclosed. nesota, AP reported. Fleck led West- and an anchor retailer. e company will continue to oper- ern to a 13-1 record, the Mid-Ameri- e Center on Community gram recognizes researchers, prac- J Billionaire investor Carl Icahn ate as iRule. can Conference title and a berth in Philanthropy at the University of Ar- titioners and senior executives raised his o er 75 cents a share to J Ann Arbor-based Altarum Insti- the Cotton Bowl this season. kansas Clinton School of Public who have demonstrated outstand- gain total control over South eld tute expanded its service mix to al- J Work by Detroit-based RBV Con- Service has named local planned ing contributions in philanthropy. supplier Federal-Mogul Holdings Corp. ternative payment models by adding tracting began on what will eventually giving expert Robin Ferriby as a dis- Each scholar joins the center for as a previous o er deadline ap- the Health Care Incentives Improve- be the ice rink at Little Caesars Arena, tinguished scholar in residence for one week at the Clinton School, the $635 million building that will be the 2016-17 academic year. and will write an essay on commu- home to the Detroit Red Wings and While presidents of community nity philanthropy, interact with Pistons when it opens in September. foundations around the country students and faculty, and present J e Albert Kahn-designed, have been named as such, Ferriby, their work as a part of the Clinton 63,000-square-foot Detroit Trust Co. vice president of philanthropic ser- School Speaker Series. Building at 201 W. Fort St. downtown vices at the Community Foundation Ferriby, whose residency will is for sale. Constructed in 1915, it is for Southeast Michigan, is the rst take place in late February, will owned by Comerica Bank, which has community foundation vice presi- write and present on the impact of a branch on the rst oor. e South- dent to be selected. community philanthropy in creat- eld o ce of Los Angeles-based Established in 2009, the pro- ing social change. CBRE Inc. has the sales listing. J A museum about one of the coun- try’s rst African American-owned and -operated television stations is Bridal readers cite 3 state locales set to open in Detroit on Jan. 16, AP ree Michigan sites made the is on the list, as is Zingerman’s reported. Located inside the East Jef- 2017 “Best Venues in America” list Cornman Farms in Dexter. ferson Avenue building that housed in Brides magazine. e Grand Hotel on Mackinac Is- OLYMPIA DEVELOPMENT the original studio for WGPR-TV 62, e annual list is set to come out land rounds out the Michigan ven- When done, the Detroit Red Wings’ playing surface inside Little Caesars Arena the William V. Banks Broadcast Muse- in its February-March issue. ues, which were among 11 Mid- downtown will sit about 40 feet below street level and the Detroit Pistons’ um & Media Center is named after the Locally, the Planterra conserva- western sites readers hailed as basketball court will be erected over the ice during the concurrent seasons. man who founded the station in 1975. tory in West Bloom eld Township their favorites. • Did you know? Over 90% of consumers avoid working with companies using outdated technology. Move forward with innovative technology from Comcast Business. 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