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20130715-NEWS--0001-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 7/12/2013 5:53 PM Page 1 ® www.crainsdetroit.com Vol. 29, No. 27 JULY 15 – 21, 2013 $2 a copy; $59 a year ©Entire contents copyright 2013 by Crain Communications Inc. All rights reserved Page 3 The biz ballot: Duggan vs. Napoleon t’s an unprecedented run-up to the De- The two men share common views on some things: troit mayoral primary election. Emergency manager Kevyn Orr should get out of their Mike Duggan, who was kicked off the way, and the city needs to reduce Aug. 6 ballot because courts ruled he crime and blight. But they differ I filed his nominating petitions too soon, widely in how the business aims to place second in the primary as a community can help the city write-in to earn a spot on the November bal- emerge from its financial lot. Front-runner Benny Napoleon, mean- crisis and on ways to reduce LARRY PEPLIN while, is running aggressively on a plat- Detroit’s health care costs. The missing ingredient for form to reduce crime. Crain’s interviews with While 14 candidates are on the ballot — building food biz? A kitchen Duggan and Napoleon are including Tom Barrow, three times unsuc- on Pages 24-25. cessful in previous bids for mayor and What’s the best verdict for polling in third place now — the two candi- dates that business is paying attention to downtown jail site? are Duggan and Napoleon. Inside Like Magic, sports talk could add a player, Page 4 This Just In Colliers hires brokerage FASTEST-GROWING COMPANIES team from Ludwig & Seeley DMC to build children’s The Southfield office of Col- liers International Inc. has hired the retail brokerage team of Southfield-based outpatient center in Troy commercial real estate firm The quickest? Ludwig & Seeley Inc. Eight retail brokers; prin- Detroit Zoo. Richard Ludwig cipals , 63, and Facility first of “We have Frederick Seeley , 71; and two evaluated in the staff members joined Colliers Quicken past year our effective July 1. Ludwig and several planned need to reach Seeley became senior vice all it a portrait of the local economy that the patients at presidents and directors of the point of you paint by numbers. Take a list of public for suburbs retail brokerage for Colliers. where they are,” Also joining Colliers are C and private companies, rank them by BY JAY GREENE said Mullany. vice presidents of retail Kent dollar amount of revenue growth between 2009 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS “The conclusion Butler and Max Goldman; asso- and 2012, then rank them by percentage rev- based on need ciate vice presidents of retail The Detroit Medical Center has Mullany and demograph- Matthew Seeley, Bryan Weiss enue growth, then add the two, and you purchased 4 acres in Troy to build ics led us change from Royal Oak” Brian Whitfield Lou Fran- have Crain’s list of the fastest-growing com- and ; a $42 million children’s outpatient to Troy. go, senior retail associate; panies in Southeast Michigan. Most of the specialty center. Mullany said the DMC Children’s and retail associates Doug La- top 10 were lifted by the rising tide of the The 70,000-square-foot center, at Hospital of Michigan Specialty Center Couver and Paul Lichtenberg. auto industry. But standing alone at No. 350 W. Big Beaver Road near the will include an emergency depart- Ludwig & Seeley will con- I-75 interchange, is one of several 1? That would be Quicken Loans Inc., ment, operating rooms, clinics and tinue its property manage- DMC plans to build in Southeast a variety of outpatient services, in- which attributes its ascendance to ment operations, said Amy Michigan over the next few years cluding cardiology, endocrinology, Schiffman, marketing man- the use of technology to secure to offer lower-cost specialty ser- gastroenterology, nephrology, ager for Colliers. greater loan volumes. vices in the suburbs, said CEO Joe neurology, oncology and surgery. Paul Managing Director Mullany. It will not include adult services as Choukourian has hired 33 bro- Construction on the site, adja- previously planned in Royal Oak, kers since taking over the Read how the other fastest grew, in profiles that begin cent from the Troy Marriott, is ex- he said. Colliers office in March 2011. pected to start next spring. DMC “We have tremendous support He said the office now has 46 on Page 11. will hire about 100 full-time work- from the residents of Oakland brokers and that broker hir- ers for the center. County requesting to have pedi- ing will continue “if there’s a Last year, DMC canceled plans atric service at the level of Chil- specific need.” to build a pediatric and adult spe- — Kirk Pinho cialty center in Royal Oak near the See DMC, Page 22 Two approaches to KEYNOTE SPEAKERS growing a business: Ari Michael AUG. 6 Weinzweig McFall SOMERSET INN, TROY president, president, 7:30 – 10 a.m. Growing out Zingerman’s Biggby Coffee TITLE SPONSOR vs. growing in To register, please visit crainsdetroit.com/events NEWSPAPER 20130715-NEWS--0002-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 7/12/2013 4:26 PM Page 1 Page 2 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS July 15, 2013 MICHIGAN BRIEFS As immigration debate persists, new president of Mercy Health Saint Mary’s in Grand Rapids, replacing growers wonder who’ll pick fruit Grand Rapids firm opens Detroit office to be amid ‘energy’ the retiring Phil McCorkle. Manns Northern Michigan fruit grower has been COO of Alameda Health Sys- Pat McGuire contends that cher- Open Systems Technologies Inc., a Grand Rapids- the company looks to hire a few more people in the tem in Oakland, Calif., since 2005 ries and apples could rot on the based information technology services company, Detroit office in applications development. and also has been an executive at ground because there won’t be has opened an office in downtown Detroit with an Almost exactly a year ago, Crain’s Michigan Busi- Detroit-based St. John Health System ness and Providence Hospital in Southfield. enough workers to pick them. Last initial staff of seven full-time employees. reported on the growing presence of Grand Ⅲ week, The Associated Press report- OST President Daniel Behm said his company de- Rapids-based businesses in downtown Detroit. They In March, Crain’s Michigan Business ed that McGuire and other Michi- cided to open the 1,500-square-foot office on the 17th include Mindscape at Hanon McKendry, Atomic Object reported on the shortage of rental apartments in downtown gan growers want Congress to pass floor of 28 W. Adams Ave. because it wanted to be Inc. and Lambert, Edwards & Associates. In that story, Grand Rapids. Last week, Mid- an immigration bill that includes part of the resurgence of Detroit. “The energy in Behm made OST’s own intentions known. land-based Brookstone Capital Man- more lenient and less complex downtown Detroit is amazing,” Behm said. “There is Open Systems Technologies, founded in 1997, agement said it planned to build a rules for hiring farm workers. a lot of talent there, especially in the tech industry. posted revenue of about $80 million in its 2013 fiscal $40 million, 14-story residential Michigan farmers hire about We see Detroit as the engine that moves the state.” year, which ended March 31, by providing IT ser- and retail building downtown, the 45,000 seasonal workers, many of With headquarters in Grand Rapids and satellite vices for the health care, manufacturing and distrib- Grand Rapids Business Journal re- them immigrants, in the typical offices in Ann Arbor, Minneapolis and Detroit, OST ution, finance and insurance industries. ported. The building would have year. Some of the asparagus crop employs about 120 full-time employees. Behm said — Matthew Gryczan 108 apartments and retail space. was left in the field this spring be- Ⅲ The Spring Arbor University cause too few pickers were avail- Corporate Giants Are Getting publication Advertising Age recent- necessary medical procedures, board of directors approved Brent able, the AP reported. Crushed, said many temp workers ly reported that beer cans are shed- The Associated Press reported. Ellis as the school’s new president, Apple grower Mark Youngquist “get by on minimum wage, renting ding their reputation as lowbrow de- Jashu Patel and other cardiolo- the Grand Rapids Business Journal said his migrant labor housing, rooms in rundown houses, eating livery systems that give their gists at Jackson Cardiology Associ- reported. He will take over from the usually half-full for the approach- dinners of beans and potatoes and contents the distinct taste of alu- ates allegedly performed heart retiring Charles Webb on Aug. 16. ing harvest, is now “at zero.” Un- surviving on food banks and tax- minum ingots. Among the trailblaz- catheterizations and other proce- less something changes quickly, payer-funded health care. They al- ers: Grand Rapids-based Founders dures that weren’t justified. Many Find business news from “none of it is going to get picked.” most never get benefits and have lit- Brewing Co., which has spent mil- procedures were performed at Al- around the state at crainsdetroit tle opportunity for advancement.” lions refining its canning line. legiance Health. Cardiologist Julie .com/crainsmichiganbusiness. 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