Managing the Storm

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Media Infrastructure One-newspaper News, Free Press again cut sta ; town? analysts speculate on JOA’s future Managing By Tom Henderson job cuts. [email protected] Carole Leigh Hutton, a former and Dustin Walsh publisher of the Free Press who is the [email protected] storm now vice president of business de- e Detroit News and the Detroit velopment and marketing at De- Free Press are once again cutting troit-based Inforum, said it’s possible newsroom sta in the face of ongo- Detroit could have two newspapers ing declines in advertising revenue, for years to come. Even if they are which raises the question: How long both losing money, the losses will this remain a two-newspaper could be less than if one paper is town? killed. For more than a year, at least. Un- “You have to do the numbers. It til 2018, both papers must continue looks easy from the outside (to kill publishing under terms of their joint one). But what are your revenue operating agreement, but persistent losses if you give one up?” she said. losses would allow the papers to end “How much less do you have to the agreement and possibly pull the charge for advertising? How many A 52,000-square-foot green roof atop the plug on one paper, presumably the advertisers want both papers? How parking garage for Blue Cross Blue Shield News, after that. much of the News’ audience can the of Michigan in Detroit includes a walking Such joint operating agreements Free Press attract?” track for employees. Roof rainwater is have gone from 28 across the U.S. in According to an early-termina- collected into a retention tank buried below. the 1990s to just ve now. tion clause in the 25-year JOA that “I see a high likelihood Detroit created the current partnership on will be a one-paper town within the Aug. 3, 2005, starting 10 years from BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MICHIGAN next couple of years,” Rick Edmonds, that date, either party can opt out af- a media business analyst with the St. ter the partnership has sustained E orts encourage property owners to go green, not drain Petersburg, Fla.-based Poynter Insti- three consecutive years of nancial tute, told Crain’s ursday after the losses. e Free Press and News have By Jay Greene Storms to increase Free Press joined the News in seeking SEE NEWS , PAGE 18 [email protected] How green What does modern stormwater Average annual rainfall in Michi- infrastructure management look like? If you ask gan has increased by 12 percent since works engineering experts, more ponds, 1964. Two-inch rainstorms — that wetlands and vegetative ditches impact and shape rivers the most — Examples of green could replace past practices, such as also have increased 89 percent during 50 names infrastructure and what it simply burying bigger pipes. that period, according to the Natural does: Stronger and more frequent rain- Resources Defense Council. Retention ponds — Basins storms — like the Aug. 11, 2014, As predictions call for a 6- to 7-de- to know in IT used to prevent stormwater cloudburst that dumped 5 inches of gree rise in summer temperatures in runo that reduce ooding rain on Southeast Michigan in just a the Midwest over the next 80 years, Our playbook of the executives to know and downstream erosion and few hours — are likely to hit Michi- extreme storms in Michigan are also covers the full range of Michigan-based improve water quality on gan over the next several decades. expected to increase, taxing the innovation, from scrappy startups such as nearby rivers, lakes or bays. And that's expected to lead to more state's aging and inadequate drain- widespread basement and road age and sewer systems, said the U.S. SPLT — and CEO Anya Babbitt — which Roo op rain gardens ooding, water pollution and possi- . — Shallow-rooted plants that Global Change Research Program won the grand prize at the Accelerate ble public health emergencies, ac- Over the past decade, Oakland tolerate sometimes hot and cording to experts. County Water Resources Commis- Michigan Innovation contest, to leaders at windy conditions on roo ops With residents and business own- sioner Jim Nash has been encourag- huge organizations, such as Judy Asher, of buildings to capture ers still battle-scarred from those ing businesses to invest in green in- rainwater, prevent runo s manager of IT research and innovation at 2014 storms, the topic of how to cre- frastructure projects on their and provide temperature Ford, ate — and pay for — the infrastruc- properties to reduce stormwater run- Page 10 control inside. ture to drain stormwater has moved o that can overwhelm public drains Bioswales — Gently sloping nearer to the top of the priority list and cause pollution to over ow into ditches lled with vegetation for local governments. waterways. He has also warned that or compost designed to And that's why new e orts are un- inaction in the face of the expected remove and drain silt and derway to create a common method heavy rainstorms is not an option and other pollution. of paying for drainage projects and would have dire economic e ects.

© Entire contents copyright 2016 giving businesses an incentive to in- “We can't a ord to spend $1.5 bil- by Crain Communications Inc. All rights reserved vest in green infrastructure. e new lion to improve our old infrastruc- crainsdetroit.com Vol. 32 No 48 $2 a copy. $59 a year. ideas could help ease the burden on ture. We need to gure out a way to drainage systems around the state do it with green infrastructure,” said and region that are bursting at the Nash. “ e August 2014 storm over- seams. whelmed the system. No drainage To be sure, major capital projects system could have sustained that.” involving traditional infrastructure Nash said because it is too expen- will still be needed, but the green sive to build new and larger drains, NEWSPAPER ideas are gaining momentum as part the most cost-e ective way is for of comprehensive planning. SEE GREEN , PAGE 22 2 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // NOVEMBER 21, 2016

INSIDE MICHIGAN BRIEFS BANKRUPTCIES 22 CALENDAR 16 Aer 16 years, Sugar Loaf development, MiBiz reported. who is married to former state Attor- CLASSIFIED ADS 17 slopes get new owner Ocials at the bank and at Grand ney General Mike Cox. Rapids-based developer Orion Con- J Sparrow Health System last week KEITH CRAIN 8 A once-popular northern Michi- struction Co. Inc. said the two parties unveiled its new $20 million health OPINION 8 gan ski resort that’s been closed for are in discussions for Chemical to center in Lansing. e three-story fa- OTHER VOICES 9 16 years is on course toward reopen- relocate its regional operations to cility houses radiology, endoscopy ing after a California developer nal- the development, but said a deal has and primary care services, and over PEOPLE 16 ized plans to buy it. yet to be nalized, pending the proj- the winter will add a drive-thru RUMBLINGS 23 Sugar Loaf, in Cedar, northwest of ect securing state incentive nanc- pharmacy, geriatric center and WEEK ON THE WEB 23 Traverse City, ocially changed ing in early 2017. Brian Calley: Laura Cox: First outpatient rehabilitation, the Lan- hands last week, said Steven Hau- With Chemical Bank “maxed out” Legislation to aid woman to lead sing State Journal reported. e COMPANY INDEX: gen, a building ocial with the Lee- at its present oce on the south side mentally ill. budget panel. 70,000-square-foot building will be SEE PAGE 21 lanau County Construction Code Au- of downtown Grand Rapids, it need- fully occupied by spring. thority. e developer, Je Katofsky, ed more space, according to Region- J Lt. Gov. Brian Calley has signed J Michigan won federal approval to obtained the resort for $3 million al President Joel Rahn. Chemical has state legislation he said provides spend about $119 million over ve quiring infants and toddlers state- under the business name Sweet signed a letter of intent to occupy people facing mental health issues years to remove lead hazards from wide to be tested for lead poisoning Bread LLC in a purchase that includ- 20,000 square feet in the building, with access to intervention and treat- the homes of low-income residents as part of an initiative to eradicate ed six dierent parcels, Haugen told including a ground-oor branch and ment earlier. e bill, “Kevin’s Law,” in Flint and elsewhere in the wake of children’s exposure to the neurotoxin. the Traverse City Record-Eagle. administrative oces, he said. is a series of underutilized laws Flint’s tainted water crisis, AP report- J A cooperative of farmers is build- Katofsky has pledged to turn the passed in 2004 that authorized courts ed. e Centers for Medicare and Med- ing a $10.1 million plant in the Ne- site into a year-round high-end re- MICH-CELLANEOUS and community mental health agen- icaid Services authorized an amend- waygo County town of White Cloud. sort, maybe in three to four years. J e Michigan State University Foun- cies to use assistant outpatient treatment to Michigan’s Children’s Health e North Central Co-op is construct- Sugar Loaf, formerly the largest em- dation in East Lansing has formed a ment programs instead of hospital- Insurance Program, and the state will ing the feed mill in the White Cloud ployer in Leelanau County, includes $5 million investment subsidiary, ization for people who don’t comply spend $333,000 this scal year to ob- Industrial Park, the Grand Rapids a golf course, lodging and an airstrip. Red Cedar Ventures LLC, which will fo- with prescribed treatment. tain a nearly $23.5 million federal Business Journal reported. e plant cus on funding MSU-based startups J For the rst time in the history of match. Meanwhile, in Lansing, state is expected to be fully operational in Chemical Financial wants and providing follow-on, growth- the Michigan House of Representa- ocials said they will consider re- late 2017. stronger GR presence stage capital to existing companies. tives, a woman will lead the powerful In the last four years, the foundation budget committee. Republican Rep. Corrections e largest bank headquartered has provided more than $2 million in Laura Cox was named as the next in Michigan wants to increase its early-stage funding to more than 20 House Appropriations chairman by J An item in the Nov. 14 Deals & Details should have said that Vokin LLC, pro le in downtown Grand Rapids. companies. Established in 1973, the Speaker-elect Tom Leonard. Cox, which has opened a vodka distillery in Plymouth, is based in Plymouth. For Midland-based Chemical Finan- foundation also operates the Michi- who will take control in January, is a J A Eureka Report story in the Nov. 14 issue on General Motors Co.’s patent cial Corp., that could include estab- gan Biotechnology Institute, Spartan rst-term lawmaker from Livonia. lings should have said that a new mirror technology that combines a lishing a substantial oce presence Innovations and the University Corpo- Cox is a former Wayne County com- mirror and cameras will be available on the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV. at a recently proposed twin-tower rate Research Park. missioner and U.S. Customs agent

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Analysis NAFTA exit unlikely to boost auto jobs Numbers show that move tive Research in Ann Arbor. would have little e ect on job Let’s make the large leap that step- market, industry as a whole ping away from NAFTA would create those 47,556 assembly jobs overnight By Dustin Walsh in the U.S. [email protected] at sounds like a lot. But in Octo- One of President-elect Donald ber, the U.S. economy added 161,000 Trump’s most potent political argu- jobs, narrowing the national unem- ments was that tearing up trade ployment gure to 4.9 percent from 5 agreements and slapping on new percent in September. Adding 47,556 tari s could bring jobs home. jobs would be essentially a rounding It was especially powerful in error on national unemployment. Michigan, where the North Ameri- What about Michigan? can Free Trade Agreement has been We can make some assumptions: accused of hollowing out manufac- Of the 43 major automaker assembly turing jobs as more and more of plants in the U.S., only 12 are in Mich- them left for Mexico. igan. Assuming that those plants Experts believe walking away would host jobs from Mexico evenly, Short-circuiting the salary-cord connection from NAFTA would not time-warp Michigan assembly plants would re- The long-term rise in the fees paid to air sports programs has fueled big player contracts. See the top 25 salaries in Detroit manufacturing to pre-1994 jobs lev- ceive roughly 13,271 new workers. sports, Page 22. Look up any Detroit player salary at crainsdetroit.com/sports. els and would likely create more e addition of those jobs would harm than good. likely narrow Michigan’s 4.6 percent But let’s go on a journey and see unemployment rate, but not by much. whether tossing NAFTA in the Rio Michigan added 11,000 jobs in Sep- Grande could even move the needle tember, with 4,000 others added to on employment and the economy. unemployment rolls.

A thought experiment Back to reality

Miguel Cabrera Justin Verlander Justin Upton Andre Drummond Victor Martinez So here’s the best-case scenario: Of course, even those small gains Automakers employed 47,556 as- aren’t likely to happen. $28 million $28 million $22.1 million $22.1 million $18 million sembly workers in Mexico in 2014, Trump has vowed to renegotiate compared with 171,982 in the U.S., NAFTA and leave it if need be. e Sports according to the Center for Automo- SEE NAFTA, PAGE 19

Talent Cord-cutting cost Ford, others step up Decline in cable TV, satellite subscribers could shrink player contracts autism hiring program By Bill Shea spend on enormous contracts — es- other revenue, have allowed the [email protected] pecially smaller and midmarket team to do such things as give slug- By Dustin Walsh ular employees at the automaker. e days of the Detroit Tigers sign- teams that don’t enjoy the level of ger Miguel Cabrera an eight-year, [email protected] Ford originally committed to hiring ing gargantuan player contracts revenue as larger-market clubs. $248 million contract. (See list of Ford Motor Co. plans next year to ve employees, but two part-time could be in jeopardy if subscriber at would be the sound of a bub- highest-paid local athletes, Page 21.) hire an additional 12 to 24 adults positions were combined to create and revenue declines for sports net- ble bursting, and there are fears that FSD also has deals with the De- with autism, expanding a program one full-time position to accommo- works continues. regional sports networks will be af- troit Red Wings and Detroit Pistons with the Autism Alliance of Michigan date an exemplary candidate. e trend of cord-cutting — peo- fected, too. that pay those teams about $25 mil- that has more than 30 other local “When we started, we wanted to ple dropping their pay TV cable and e Tigers have developed a rep- lion yearly. companies signed on. make sure we could do this and do it satellite services in favor of cheaper utation for over-spending for their Basketball and hockey have salary e programs are growing quickly. sustainably,” said Kirstin Queen, online options — is translating into market size, topping out with that caps, so they’re shielded more than For the companies, people with au- manager of diversity and inclusion lost dollars, most notably ESPN los- season’s $200 million-plus payroll baseball teams, where player spend- tism represent untapped talent, and at Ford. “e program was found to ing tens of millions of dollars in reve- that was fourth-highest in Major ing is limited solely by the owner’s the jobs mean an opportunity to earn be very successful, and the supervi- nue as subscribers keep jettisoning League Baseball. It is now starting to nancial tolerance. a living for those on the spectrum who sors have said these individuals their subscriptions to providers such scale back that spending. ose three local team deals are have typically been left behind. brought a new energy that spread to as Comcast Inc. and DirecTV. Locally, it’s Southeld-based Fox said to be up in 2021, and FSD is ex- In June, the Dearborn-based au- other employees.” e expectation of local and na- Sports Detroit that carries games. pected to pay substantially more for tomaker launched its pilot program e challenge of employing an tional broadcast rights deals further e network, owned by Fox Broad- the right to carry games. e by hiring four adults with autism adult with autism, while all are dif- increasing in size has long fueled the casting Co., has a 10-year, $500 mil- cord-cutting trend could a ect how who have college degrees to work in ferent, usually lies in the realm of so- massive increase in player contracts. lion contract with the Tigers an- much the network is willing to pay. its product development depart- cial interactions. Employees with But if networks are forced to cut nounced in 2008. at sort of money, Here’s where the potential prob- ment at its world headquarters. autism can lack social skills and so- back, leagues and teams may not plus what the Tigers get from the lem lies: As the cost to air games for ose four were on temporary sta- cial imagination and are often have as much cash in the future to shared national broadcast deals and SEE PLAYERS, PAGE 21 tus, but have since been become reg- SEE AUTISM, PAGE 17

MUST Talent hunt The end is near Former Michigan International Obamacare’s repeal is coming, national READS Speedway President Roger Curtis health care experts say at a Crain’s OF THE has been tabbed to lead the state’s summit. But how fast? And what might WEEK talent development e orts, Page 16 replace it? Page 7 4 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // NOVEMBER 21, 2016 SF Motors to invest $10.7 million in Pitts eld Township center

By Dustin Walsh [email protected] San Francisco-based SF Motors Inc. plans to invest $10.7 million to open a new research and development center in Pitts eld Township. e subsidiary of Chinese automaker and supplier Sokon Industry Group signed an agreement last week with the state of Michigan during Gov. Rick Snyder’s latest trade mission in China, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. said in a news re- lease. e project is expected to create 150 new jobs and is supported by a $1 million performance-based grant from the state. Pitts eld Township is also expected to support the project STATE OF MICHIGAN A team from Shanghai Jiaotong University hosted Gov. Rick Snyder and his with other incentives, though they Michigan delegation last week in China. There, they discussed the ongoing have yet to be determined, the re- relationship with the university, the oldest continuously running university in lease said. Shanghai, and a joint institute with the Ross Executive Development Program from “We are excited to build our engi- the University of Michigan, among other initiatives. neering R&D center in Pitts eld Township, Michigan,” SF Motors entrepreneurship and technology business relationships in that CEO John Zhang said in a statement. startups; and increase research and country. “Michigan is at the cutting edge of testing of new technologies, includ- “We have built a lot of great rela- new automotive technologies as well ing universities and research institu- tionships because we’ve been back as being an engineering power- tions in both places, Snyder’s oce so often,” Snyder told Crain’s in an house, and we want to be a part of said last week. interview. “We’ve received a lot of this great community.” Snyder, who was on his sixth trade questions on the challenges of doing It’s unclear whether the R&D cen- trip to China, said agreements like business in another country and ter will focus on parts or car design, these are occurring at a faster clip as help guide them to the right but it will focus on next-generation his administration has established decisions.” electric vehicles. Earlier this week, two Michigan HELPING COMPANIES NAVIGATE THROUGH manufacturing companies signed DIFFICULT BUSINESS SITUATIONS agreements with Chinese companies to form joint ventures in the au- • Turnaround, Workouts & Restructuring tomotive and aerospace industries. • Performance Improvement Gage Products Co., based in Fern- • Litigation Support dale, and Muskegon-based Lorin In- • Fraud Investigations & Forensic Accounting dustries Inc. signed memoranda of • Executive Coaching understanding with the Chinese companies during Snyder’s trade visit to China. Gage Products, which makes chemical products and solvents, will calderonelight.com create a joint company with Sichuan Sikeyonghe Technologies Co. Ltd., which specializes in automotive coatings, thinners and other solvents, in the Chinese city of Chongq- ing to make cleaning solvents for Chinese auto markets, Snyder’s of- ce said. e agreement says the initial investment into the joint company is estimated to be 50 million RMB ($7.3 million in U.S. dollars) and create 50 jobs in China over two years. Gage will provide future technology, operational and nancial support, while the Chinese rm will provide management and marketing services. Lorin Industries will supply its an- odized aluminum coil to its Chinese @V\YKYLHTZ@V\YKL[V\YZ distributor, Shenzhen Bond Industry Co. Ltd., to work on a Chongqing air- )V[OTH[[LY[V\Z port terminal. Also, the Michigan Economic Devel- opment Corp. and Shanghai Auto City signed a cooperation agreement for :H·UHKHUHWRKHOS,I\RXUEXVLQHVVLVVHDUFKLQJIRUÁH[LEOH connected vehicle development. ÀQDQFLQJVROXWLRQVWDONWRXVDERXWDVVHWEDVHGOHQGLQJ e memorandum of understanding is intended to help the Chi- nese auto manufacturing base set up a Michigan oce; improve Michi- KLWDFKLEXVLQHVVÀQDQFHFRP gan’s and China’s connected vehicle infrastructure; increase innovation, CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // NOVEMBER 21, 2016 5

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Health economist Jared Bern- stein said at Crain’s eighth annual Healthcare Leadership Summit on ursday that he believes Republi- cans in Congress will vote to repeal the Aordable Care Act within three months but put a two-year sunset provision in the bill to give them time to come up with a replacement. Health policy analyst Naomi Lo- pez Bauman said she thinks repeal isn’t politically feasible without an immediate replacement, though she predicts many changes are ahead to give states more local control, seek to reduce health care prices through increased competition and possibly convert Medicaid funding into block grants that states could control. e two national health care policy experts — Bernstein, represent- ing the left, and Bauman, represent- ing the right — discussed during the summit possible outcomes based on campaign promises Presi- dent-elect Donald Trump has made on the fate of Obamacare. e moderator was Marianne Udow-Phillips, executive director of the Center for Healthcare Research and Transforma- tion in Ann Arbor. Bernstein is senior fellow at the AARON ECKELS Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Crain’s Health Care Leadership Summit 2016 Panel Discussion: Will TrumpCare Work? included (le to right) Moderator: Marianne Udow-Phillips, executive director, and was in President Obama’s ad- Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation; panelists: Naomi Lopez Bauman, director of Healthcare Policy, Goldwater Institute; and Jared Bernstein, ministration as chief economist and senior fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former economic adviser to President Barack Obama. economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden. Bauman is national director of health care policy at the out the diculty of eliminating piec- Bauman said she believes Repub- to 25 percent in 2025. Another way to reduce costs and conservative Goldwater Institute and es of Obamacare, as many parts are licans will retain some sort of federal Since Obamacare was enacted in give states the ability to become holds a degree in economics. interconnected and dependent on subsidies to help lower-income 2010, however, the CBO has project- more ecient in delivering care is to Udow-Phillips opened the dis- the others. people retain coverage, but they will ed health spending to rise only to block-grant federal Medicaid spend- cussion by suggesting that Republi- For example, for Trump to keep be funded and directed dierently about 20 percent of GDP, Bernstein ing to states, Bauman said. can eorts to repeal or downsize his promise to retain Obamacare’s from under Obamacare. said. “States can be more ecient. Too Obamacare the past three years ban on insurers denying coverage to Subsidies “could be block-grant- “We have 20 million people cov- much money is spent on adults” on were done with the practical under- people because of pre-existing con- ed, made part of Medicaid and re- ered, and it is still 5 percent lower of Medicaid, she said. “States can’t standing that nothing would hap- ditions, Bernstein said, Trump must turned to states,” she said. “It doesn’t GDP,” he said. “ ere is no question wait to make that change.” pen because Obama would never keep the individual insurance man- need to go through the exchanges.” that Obamacare addressed costs” Bernstein said block-granting sign a bill gutting his administra- date, and possibly the employer Bauman said how to provide cov- through the use of accountable care Medicaid is just another way to tion’s signature achievement. mandate, to ensure risk pools are erage for people with pre-existing organizations, hospital readmission slowly lower payments because “It’s a lot dierent to have position balanced and actuarially sound, conditions also belongs at the state penalties, bundled payment and funding increases never keep up (of repeal) where a president can and insurance markets don’t go into level. “You can have a one-time opt- value-based payment approaches. with health care inationary trends. veto” any bill, said Udow-Phillips, a “death spiral” of ever-rising costs in during open enrollment,” she Hospitals, doctors and other provid- “Every Republican solution I adding the same can be said about because of adverse selection. said. ers also absorbed hundreds of mil- have ever seen to improve access Trump promising to big applause on “ ey (Trump and Republicans) While Bauman said she believes lions in Medicare payment reduc- and extend coverage requires more the campaign trail to repeal will gure out that the only way to in universal coverage, Bernstein tions as a cost containment measure cost shifting to people who want Obamacare, which he repeatedly prevent people from losing coverage said every industrialized country that also helped to pay for the bill. health insurance,” he said. called a “catastrophe” and “really is to re-create (Obamacare) that understands that to extend coverage Bauman said Republicans are Bernstein said many Republicans bad for America.” they just repealed,” said Bernstein, you need some nancial support to talking about reducing costs by the are pointing to House Speaker Paul Bauman said she cannot predict adding that after months of studying help people purchase health insur- use of telemedicine programs and Ryan’s health care reform plan, un- what the Republican-majority Con- how to replace Obamacare, Repub- ance or put them on Medicaid-type expanded use of allied health pro- veiled over the summer, as one way gress will do on Obamacare, but she licans could quite possibly approve health programs. viders. Other innovations could in- to replace Obamacare. believes Republicans have a strong legislation that would be insucient “Universal coverage means that clude using health savings accounts “ e Ryan plan costs less than we desire to get government out of the and not work out. everyone has access to coverage that for Medicaid and cutting costs by are currently spending,” he said. way and let the free market and Bernstein said Republicans could they can aord,” Bernstein said. using more direct primary care, a “You end up just shifting more costs states take control of health care. eliminate most of Obamacare Bauman criticized Obamacare trend in which primary care doctors to people. ... As you put more people “You need a strong safety net and through the budget reconciliation for doing nothing to lower costs, oversee limited panels of patients to into higher-deductible plans, they (a way to) divert resources to those process if they simply took away the which she said is one of the nation’s more closely manage health care avoid unnecessary care, but also needy people, but not subsidies” for federal government’s ability to raise biggest health care problems. costs and provide more personal necessary care. People then begin the online health insurance ex- taxes to fund it. “Take away the tax But Bernstein chafed at that sug- care. go on television saying, ‘I can't af- changes, which Bauman called a credits and subsidies, and the ex- gestion and pointed out that in 2008 “Innovations in health care” can ford the care I need.’ is is a mas- failure because of rising premiums changes collapse” and there is no the Congressional Budget Oce pre- help address rising costs, Bauman sive problem for Trump, one that and perverse incentives, she said. funding for Medicaid expansion and dicted that, without changes in law, said. faced Obama.” But Bernstein said he believes the other pilot programs to improve total spending on health care would But Bernstein said, “Innovations Jay Greene: (313) 446-0325 Trump administration will soon nd quality and reduce costs, he said. rise from 16 percent of GDP in 2007 are not a plan. It’s a great idea.” Twitter: @jaybgreene 8 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // NOVEMBER 21, 2016

OPINION 5 things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving his is the week to give thanks. We’re grateful for: n is rare moment in time, the rst in ve decades or more, when we can condently say that the political, Tbusiness and cultural leaders of Detroit are pulling together to revive the city and its surrounding communities. Yes, there are still turf wars, bad actors and backslides, but the civic leadership just might be getting its act together. n e Detroit Institute of Arts, a cultural heavyweight. e DIA just hosted the Heart of Our City gala to great fundraising success. It was just three years ago we were talking about selling the art. Instead, the nonprot community solved the city’s pension gap with the “Grand Bargain.” n Autonomous and connected car investments in Southeast Michigan. Self-driving cars and connected cars are not only a Sil- icon Valley thing; Michigan is a hub — and this region can be a leader with the right innovation and investment. TALK ON THE WEB n Four top-tier professional sports teams that are injecting money and goodwill into the city. From the Detroit Red Wings and the Re: News oers buyouts Reader responses to stories and house and transport prisoners close related District Detroit, to the plans for the Detroit Pistons to join to all editorial employees blogs that appeared on Crain’s to popular tourist draws and large the Wings at the new arena. We can’t forget the Tigers. And it website. Comments may be edited oces? e entire jail and court wouldn’t be anksgiving without a Detroit Lions game. More heartbreaking news at a time for length and clarity. complex should be moved far away newspapers are needed more than . n Greater awareness of the talents of people on the autism spec- from downtown ever. Was it the Gary Johnson endorse- jewel942 trum. As Dustin Walsh describes in his Page 3 story, people with M.L. Elrick ment? It was, wasn’t it? We’re going autism are wired for jobs that employers are having a hard time to miss Nolan Finley. Re: Opinion: Transit lling through traditional hires. Forward-looking companies are Re: Free Press joins News Wheelman dilemma must be resolved joining this fast-growing movement — and their return on invest- in seeking to shrink sta ment is huge. Re: Study nds jail I don’t understand why they did it e slow, bleeding death of news- structurally sound based on property tax. Why not do it papers around the country is a bad based on income tax? People who omen for our democracy, the success Wayne County should be ashamed own homes are fairly likely to own of which depends on literate and in- of itself for paying good money to de- cars and not need public transit, formed citizens. For most of the 20th termine the viability of a site that is while the people who use public century, men and women alike, in- simply unsuitable to the reputation of transit are more likely to be renters, cluding my parents, sat down in their the largest city in Wayne County and like me. I would be willing to pay ex- living rooms after dinner to read the thus the reputation of Wayne County tra income tax to get a transportation paper. It was part of the daily routine. itself. ... No one wants a jail in his system that connects the counties. Some of today’s news websites are backyard, but there are other places Michelle very good, but they don’t have even ... and surround it with landscaping half the information of one edition of that makes it suitable to the neigh- Re: Parc restaurant to a newspaper. Reader engagement is borhood. open at Campus Martius less, too, since every article has links E M Parmelee that take you elsewhere — often far Good and thoughtful renovation for from the original news page. Shortsighted. Why would the the site. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO James county think it is a good idea to BobNB Just when you thought it was over, here’s the ‘Next Big Thing’ While most of the world is talking campaign — even in the primary. It is rumored that the best I have no doubt we’ll be hearing about new U.S. President-elect Don- And chances are pretty good that vote-getter in the state, Republican about other new candidates just ald Trump and what it all means to there will be plenty of mudslinging Candice Miller, has vowed to stand about every week. ere seems to be the world and to the nation, others as well. I fear that that will become aside and let her good friend and ally no clear path to the nomination by are looking to another race that will the norm for a while. Mark Hackel run on the Democratic either party. make a lot of news in coming Michigan Attorney General Bill ticket. What happens if he does not My guess is the primary battles months. Schuette has been running for quite get the nomination is anyone’s may be more interesting than the - I’m talking about the race to suc- a while; he seems to be spending all guess. Not to mention that Miller has nal campaign. ceed Rick Snyder as governor of KEITH CRAIN of his energy trying to promote the a new job this fall anyway, cleaning If you thought there was a reces- Michigan. Editor-in-chief idea that our governor is responsible up the water department in Macomb sion in our state, guess again. Like Yes, I know. e newly elected for the water pollution in Flint. County. the presidential election, these can- president is not even in oce, and I ( ey’re members of the same polit- Other names are mentioned for didates will be able to raise millions dare to mention the “Next Big ing.” You can’t cover the state with just ical party.) is tactic will probably the Democrats, including Dan of dollars. When Snyder was re-elect- But people are already picking sides one television station or one news- backre, in my opinion. Kildee of Flint (another candidate ed in 2014, the campaign spending and candidates for primaries in Au- paper advertising “buy,” so the mon- Lt. Gov. Brian Calley is quietly who can run on what went wrong in on both sides was pegged at $30 mil- gust 2018. ey will spread out for a lot of candi- waiting, perhaps until he is un- Flint) and Gretchen Whitmer, a for- lion. And most important of all, they’re dates. leashed by the governor sometime mer lawmaker and daughter of for- I guess it will never end. It’s what out trying to raise money. Lots of it. My guess is that it will be a erce soon. mer Blue Cross CEO Dick Whitmer. we call a democracy. CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // NOVEMBER 21, 2016 9 It’s time for Detroit to have a Heidelberg 3.0 ere's why the Heidelberg Proj- serving as inspiration for a genera- ant to Detroit because for 30 years it ect matters to the future of De- tion of innovators in Detroit and steadfastly reminds us of our origi- “Art and Htroit. across the world. nality, our innovation, our grit and unconventional When I rst drove down Heidel- is original, ever-changing out- our resilience. thinking have berg Street in June1993, I asked the door art environment embodies As conversations about equity artist: “What is all of this?” I was what is special and fascinating and inclusion and how we rise to- become essential procrastinating about going back to about our city. gether as a city endure, the Heidel- elements for work as a loan ocer at then-Mich- It may be popular to replicate the berg Project is not only relevant but igan National Bank; Tyree Guyton OTHER VOICES successes of other cities, but I be- a critical example of how embrac- healthy growth in invited me to get out of my car and Jenenne Whiteld lieve that we will be much further ing our own can change the game! a city that is now “check it out.” Whiteld is executive director of the ahead (and happier) if we look In essence, we are striving for taking great leaps One year later, I found myself Heidelberg Project. within and give Detroiters an op- Heidelberg 3.0 to be a new vision blowing the dust o of an old com- portunity to be part of the come- (with some of the old for historic forward.” puter to help him respond to corre- 21st century. For 30 years, it has back that they have fought for. purposes) that is embraced and spondence he was receiving from brought diverse people together, e Heidelberg Project is import- served by a wider constituency. all over the world. As a businesswoman on the rise, I was surprised by my newfound di- version and realized that something had awakened in me that I hadn’t felt since I was a child. From the start, it was challenging. Controversy, bulldozers and 12 arson attacks in recent years could all be viewed as innovation in the making, right? As you may have read more recently, plans call for dismantling the current iteration of the project, and conversations are underway for existing works to be placed in a collection or exhibition at one or more of the major museums in town. Meanwhile, though, the art is making room for a new, more comprehensive vision for which we are rallying support. As we approached our 30th anni- CYBERSECURITY CONCENTRATION versary, we wondered what the Hei- Cybersecurity is a growing and critical delberg Project’s future would hold. We found ourselves grappling with business need. As a leading graduate the question, is the Heidelberg Proj- business school, Walsh College is the ect relevant to Detroit’s changing ÀUVWVFKRROLQVRXWKHDVWHUQ0LFKLJDQ landscape? A comment by one pa- to offer a graduate concentration in tron always plays in my mind. WKLVJURZLQJÀHOG1RZLW·VSDUWRIRXU “ere’s nothing like it anywhere else in the world.” 0DVWHURI6FLHQFHLQ,QIRUPDWLRQ Today, the success of the HP and 7HFKQRORJ\,I\RXZDQWDFDUHHURQ Tyree Guyton’s vision can be vali- the cutting edge, turn to Walsh. dated. But, just as the city of Detroit is changing, so are the narrative and WALSHCOLLEGE.EDU/CYBERSECURITY landscape of the HP. Based upon the successes that Tyree began 30 years ago, the HP is poised to transform from an arts in- stallation driven by one man into an arts community that calls for the participation of many. is is what we call Heidelberg 3.0, an idea that can foster an ex- %DUEDUD&LDUDPLWDUR3K' pansive new future for the HP that &KDLU'HFLVLRQ6FLHQFHV builds new alliances with residents, 3URIHVVRU%XVLQHVV ,QIRUPDWLRQ7HFKQRORJ\ artists, local universities, community groups, and government municipalities, all of whom can assist in building a new community of excel- lence through the arts. Historically, Detroit can stake claim on being a city of innovators that led the nation with startups, game-changing inventions and economic vitality. Today, art and unconventional thinking have become essential elements for healthy growth in a city that is now taking great leaps for- TROY NOVVI ward. CLINTON TWP PORT HUROON And, true to our history, it is reasonable to think that the rise of De- troit can pave the way for renewal in other cities around the nation. e Heidelberg Project is a &RQJUDWV'U&LDUDPLWDURRQEHLQJQDPHGWRCrain’s “50 People to Know in IT” game-changing invention in the 10 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // NOVEMBER 21, 2016

50 NAMES TO KNOW IN IT Katherine Ball IT services director, Michigan State University, East Lansing Ball, 52, who has been at MSU since 2005, NAMES TO KNOW IN was named IT services director in 2012. She oversees a budget of $11 million and 23 employees. Ball also heads up the IT department’s communication and marketing team, INFORMATION managing digital and web communications for the O ce of the CIO, as well as a broad-based IT training program for students, faculty and sta , TECHNOLOGY which includes noncredit instructional seminars, computing courses ranging from introductory basics to web 50By Tom Henderson / [email protected] development, and workshops. Ball also has oversight of the MSU nformation technology is everywhere, having list like this by its nature will exclude worthy candi- , and Kathleen Norton-Schock, co-founder of the igan Computer Store, which o ers technology long ago escaped the physical boundaries of a dates. To share the blame, we reached out to get sug- business intelligence consulting company ardent- consultation, sales and computer repair IPC or a mainframe. Smartphones are smarter gestions, asking those in the know whom we needed Cause L3C, for alleviating my fears about gender di- services to students and faculty. than the computers that guided astronauts to the to include. versity by making the case for dozens of women to be moon. Heck, smartwatches are smarter. We got about 150 names that we were told were included. Itai Ben-Gal e so-called internet of things will connect your must-includes. anks for the help go to Ted Serbins- Apologies to the many quali ed people we left o . Co-founder and CEO, fridge to your car to your phone to your place up ki of Techstars Mobility, Larry Eiler of Eiler Communica- Crain's doesn't claim these are the best 50 or the iRule LLC, Detroit north. Is your milk getting sour? Expect a text. tions, Guy Suter of Notion AI, Colby Berthume of Rock most important. It is a very interesting 50, a diverse Ben-Gal, 39, and A connected car will connect us to our destination Ventures LLC, Chris Rizik of the Renaissance Venture group that ranges in age from 31 to 65, a mix of wom- Victor Nemirovsky without anyone needing to touch the steering wheel Capital Fund, Bob Marsh of LevelEleven, Dug Song of en and men, of races and heritages and scienti c and founded iRule in or hit the brake. Duo Security, Paul McCreadie of Arboretum Ventures informational interests, of people at small startups 2009, guring there had to be a better ousands of people work in information technol- and Adrian Fortino of the Mercury Fund, with special hoping to create a niche and at huge global institu- way to help friends and family manage ogy in Michigan. So pulling together a list of 50 peo- thanks to Linda Daichendt, the executive director tions hoping to keep theirs. home entertainment systems than a tableful of remote controls. They created ple to know in IT puts one in a dauntingly big pool. A and CEO of the From A to W, here are 50 people to know in IT. Mobile Technology Association of Mich- an application that transforms the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad into a universal remote control. They weren’t Michael Judy Asher Anya Romil Bahl Henry thinking about the internet of things. Antaran IT manager of global Babbitt President and CEO, Balanon Founder and CEO, connected consumer Founder and CEO, Lochbridge, Detroit Co-founder and chief strategy, Ford Motor Marvel Apps LLC, Splt, Detroit Lochbridge and its technology o cer, Co., Dearborn $150 million of Royal Oak; founder Babbitt, 34, came to Stratos Inc., Ann revenue were spun and CEO, Carrot Asher, 51, who got her Detroit at the Arbor; co-founder, bachelor’s degree in computational out from Compuware Corp. in 2014 Pass LLC, Royal Oak beginning of the summer in 2015 to be Detroit Labs LLC, Detroit; chief product mathematics from Michigan State when Compuware’s professional services A former powertrain engineer at one of the rst members of the rst class o cer, , Troy. University and an MBA from the division was sold to Hermosa Beach, Autobooks LLC , Antaran founded Marvel in of the Techstars Mobility accelerator Chrysler University of Michigan, has been with Calif.-based Marlin Equity Partners. Balanon, 34, co-founded Detroit Labs in 2008, shortly a er being selected as one program at Ford Field. Ford since 1989. The private equity company kept 2011. Funded by Detroit Venture of the rst batch of 4,000 developers for As part of her participation there, Splt, Lochbridge’s headquarters in Detroit. It Partners, the company has become one Apple Inc. “When Steven Jobs rst One of the biggest technological which has an app-based way for also has o ces in Milwaukee; Lansing; of the biggest custom-design mobile app announced the iPhone, I thought it was advances since then is the so-called companies to launch ride-share programs Columbus, Ohio; Montreal; and Guragon, agencies in the world. Clients include beautiful. I was one of those who stood in internet of things, which connects people for employees, got $120,000 in funding India, with about 80 percent of its 1,000 Chevrolet, Domino’s Pizza, line and paid $600 for it,” he said. to their cars and household appliances from Detroit-based Fontinalis Partners through their smartphones. employees here. Volkswagen and Stryker Corp. Antaran, 43, developed one of the rst LLC and Basking Ridge, N.J.-based At the 2015 Mobile World Congress in Verizon Ventures. Customers include Lochbridge has become one of the largest In 2013, Balanon co-founded Stratos, fantasy football league apps for the 2008 which marketed one card that tracked all NFL season, had an app developed in Barcelona, Ford introduced what it called DTE Energy Co., Honda mobile-app developers in the state, the Handle on Mobility and Info Cycle as Manufacturing of Ohio and Magna positioning itself in the middle of the hot credit cards and membership reward time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics that programs. It raised $6.8 million in venture allowed fans to keep track of results and part of its Ford Smart Mobility plan. Asher International of America Inc. space of the internet of things and connected cars, thanks to nearly two capital and was sold last December to a since has done more than 150 apps, with had challenged employees to design an The November issue of Entrepreneur decades of work with competitor, Pennsylvania-based Ciright customers including the former Zumba e-bike, and the result was a bike with a Magazine named Splt as one of the 10 General Motors and . One LLC. Mexican Grille, Oculus Ri and rear-facing sensor that vibrates the most innovative companies to watch. Co. OnStar Corp Coleman Co. handlebars and turns on the bike’s light Also in November, it was the $500,000 Before joining Lochbridge last year, Bahl, In October, Balanon joined Autobooks, a to warn of a vehicle coming from behind winner at the Accelerate Michigan 48, was an executive vice president and startup that o ers payment and Carrot o ers an app that tracks how far and an app to give riders information accounting so ware delivered through users walk or run, and o ers rewards such Innovation Competition at Cobo Center. general manager of global industries for about bike-friendly roads and potential of Falls nancial institutions to help small as gi cards based on milestones. Henry In September, Splt got a $100,000 Computer Science Corp. hazards. Church, Va., an IT giant with more than businesses grow. Ford Health System and Health investment from Macomb Community $4 billion in public-sector business and Alliance Plan are Carrot customers, Asher has also run innovation hackathons, College’s $2.7 million Innovation Fund. In In 2012, he was awarded the Distinguished more than $9 billion in the commercial using it in their employee wellness one of which was to challenge employees August, it announced a partnership with Young Alumni Award by Michigan State sector. programs. to gure out ways to use smartwatches ride-hailing company L y and Beaumont University. as part of the connected vehicle. Health to provide transportation for the elderly to medical appointments. CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // NOVEMBER 21, 2016 11

50 NAMES TO KNOW IN IT Katherine Today, they are at the heart of IoT, helping companies, large institutions like Ball hospitals and universities and individuals IT services director, better connect and manage high-end entertainment and communication Michigan State systems through mobile devices. One University, East major customer is CNN in New York. Lansing In 2011, iRule raised a seed round of Ball, 52, who has been at MSU since 2005, $500,000. Two subsequent funding was named IT services director in 2012. rounds totaling $3.6 million were raised She oversees a budget of $11 million and for the company, which employs about 30 23 employees. in the Madison Building. Ball also heads up the IT department’s Ben-Gal was a member of the 2012 class communication and marketing team, of Crain’s 40 under 40. In 2014, the managing digital and web company was the only early-stage tech communications for the Oce of the CIO, company from Michigan and one of 10 in as well as a broad-based IT training the U.S. to pitch at the annual Google program for students, faculty and sta, Demo Day in Mountain View, Calif. which includes noncredit instructional seminars, computing courses ranging Sundaresh from introductory basics to web Brahmasandra development, and workshops. President, Ball also has oversight of the MSU NeuMoDx Computer Store, which oers technology Molecular Inc., Ann consultation, sales and computer repair Arbor services to students and faculty. Brahmasandra, 44, has been president of NeuMoDx, a Itai Ben-Gal company developing molecular diagnostic Co-founder and CEO, testing tools for hospitals and laboratories, since 2012. In 2014, it raised a iRule LLC, Detroit venture capital round of $21 million, led by Ben-Gal, 39, and Pzer Venture Investments in New Victor Nemirovsky York and joined by three Ann Arbor rms, founded iRule in Arboretum Ventures LLC, Venture 2009, guring there had to be a better Investors LLC and the Wolverine way to help friends and family manage Venture Fund, which followed an earlier home entertainment systems than a round of $5 million. tableful of remote controls. They created an application that transforms the The company, which employs 40, is still in iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad into a product development. universal remote control. They weren’t Henry thinking about the internet of things. SEE NEXT PAGE Balanon Co-founder and chief technology o cer, Stratos Inc., Ann Arbor; co-founder, Detroit Labs LLC, Detroit; chief product o cer, Autobooks LLC, Troy. Balanon, 34, co-founded Detroit Labs in 2011. Funded by Detroit Venture Partners, the company has become one of the biggest custom-design mobile app agencies in the world. Clients include Chevrolet, Domino’s Pizza, Volkswagen and Stryker Corp. In 2013, Balanon co-founded Stratos, which marketed one card that tracked all credit cards and membership reward programs. It raised $6.8 million in venture capital and was sold last December to a competitor, Pennsylvania-based Ciright One LLC. In October, Balanon joined Autobooks, a startup that oers payment and accounting soware delivered through nancial institutions to help small businesses grow. In 2012, he was awarded the Distinguished Young Alumni Award by Michigan State University. 12 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // NOVEMBER 21, 2016

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FROM PREVIOUS PAGE automobile supplier, ZF Friedrichshafen time, Ambassador had 20 employees and Randy to the city and was available as a free Candace AG, and renamed ZF TRW. had brought in $1 million of revenue in download across all platforms, providing Brahmasandra is best known for being Hayden As CIO, Chamarthi, 47, is focused on 2014. Now it has 44 employees, with Foster the community with breaking news, crime co-founder of Ann Arbor-based connected and autonomous vehicles, revenue of $5 million this year and Co-founder and chief updates, statistics and posts about Senior vice president HandyLab Inc., one of the most which includes braking systems controlled projections of $10 million next year. wanted suspects. of information successful startups in state history. technology o cer, by cameras, sensors and radar. Customers include PayPal, Spotify, Detroit Labs has an apprenticeship Founded in 2000 to create bench-top Rocket Fiber LLC, technology, HughesNet, Progresso and the program for those with no prior coding devices for quick analysis of body uids Detroit Hutchinson North America, Auburn American Marketing Association. experience. It has graduated more than for university research and the Barbara Hills In 2000, while still at Rocket Fiber was founded in 2014 by CEO 40, about half women and the majority pharmaceutical industry, the company Michigan State Ciaramitaro , Epstein launched eSparty.com Marc Hudson, COO Edi Demaj and Foster , Detroit residents. About half of the In 2013, Hayden, now 51, was named was sold in 2009 to New Jersey-based University Director of the with the goal of becoming the uno cial all former employees of the Dan Gilbert- graduates were hired by Detroit Labs. senior vice president of IT for Hutchinson, Becton, Dickinson and Co. for $275 Center for home page of MSU students. It was a owned Rock Ventures Family of Cos. which employs more than 9,000 at 16 million. manufacturing locations — 12 in the U.S., Cybersecurity tough go in the days of dial-up internet, Gilbert launched the company with an Kalyan and the plug was pulled in 2003. In 2005, three in Mexico and one in Canada — with Meredith Leadership and initial investment of $30 million to rst Handique he founded Finest A liates LLC, an about $1.2 billion in sales. chairwoman of the Decision Sciences provide high-speed internet to downtown Bronk internet marketing company he sold a year businesses and residents and then to President and CEO, Four of Hutchinson’s divisions focus on Department, Walsh College, Troy President and CEO, later to pay o¤ half his student debt. provide it to city schools and institutions Celsee Diagnostics, the automotive industry, and the h is Ciaramitaro, 63, has been chairwoman of Open Systems and eventually to city and suburban Plymouth Township. focused on aerospace. Its automotive the Decision Sciences Department since Carl residents. Handique, 43, in 2000 co-founded divisions include anti-vibration and Technologies Inc., 2013. Also a professor of informational Erickson Foster, 36, has more than 10 years of , which would become belt-drive systems, uid management Grand Rapids technology at Walsh, her areas of HandyLab Inc. experience in network engineering and one of the most successful startups in systems and precision sealing systems. expertise are automotive and health care Co-founder and CEO, Bronk, 47, who has an MBA from the management. Previous to launching state history. The company, which made Hayden’s specialties include technology cybersecurity and mobile and internet of Atomic Object LLC, Mendoza College of Business at the Rocket Fiber, which now employs 50, he bench-top devices for quick analysis of infrastructure solutions, enterprise things technologies. Grand Rapids University of Notre Dame, has been was a consultant for Detroit-based body uids and to detect food-borne resource planning systems, data security with OST, a provider of IT services, Ciaramitaro has been a section chief for In 2001, Erickson Urban Science and then a so ware pathogens, was sold in 2009 to New and disaster recovery, quality assurance including cloud-based data storage, app seven years with the InfraGard thought the time was right to start an IT engineer at Quicken Loans Inc. Jersey-based Becton, Dickinson and and IT vendor management and development, data analytics and , a public-private Michigan Alliance services rm. He had a Ph.D. in computer Last November, Rocket Fiber began Co. for $275 million. negotiations. managed services, since 1998. partnership between the FBI and engineering, nine years as an associate providing ultrafast ber-optic service to In 2011, Handique, 43, joined Celsee, then From 2005-2013, she was information Bronk was just the seventh employee members of 19 industry sectors that professor at Grand Valley State 19 o ce buildings and two apartment known as DeNovo Sciences, which was technology director for Hutchinson when she was hired. Now, OST employs focuses in infrastructure issues. University and had been involved in a buildings downtown and subsequently founded in 2010. That November 2011, Sealing Systems. nearly 200 and has revenue of $165 Previously she taught at Ferris State dot.com startup, Austin, Texas-based rolled it out to Midtown. Speeds are up to DeNovo attracted national attention million. She was named COO in 2009, was University and Wayne State Deltamode. 1,000 times faster than current average when it won $500,000 as the top Linglong He promoted to president in 2014 and was University and from 1999-2008 was an Atomic Object designs and develops internet speeds. company in the Accelerate Michigan CIO, named CEO last year, when Inc. Magazine IT executive with General Motors Corp. custom web, mobile and embedded Innovation event. Quicken Loans named her as one of the top 50 women Inc., Detroit so ware products, with clients ranging Tel Ganesan Since then, the company, which employs entrepreneurs in the country. from startups to Fortune 500 companies, Linda Founder and 11 and has 10 contract workers, has He, 51, has been CIO Open Systems has o ces in Ann Arbor, with markets including automotive, since 2010 and an IT Daichendt managing partner, undergone a name change, raised more Detroit, Minneapolis and London. health care, nancial services, education, executive at Quicken CEO and executive Kyyba Ventures, than $10 million in capital and launched distribution and entertainment. It has several lab-on-a-chip diagnostic devices. since 1996. Over that time, Quicken has Farmington Hills Mary Jo director, Mobile created more than 250 apps for more It also sells kits and reagents for those grown to become one of the biggest Cartwright Technology than 150 clients, including Spectrum Ganesan, 49, founded Kyyba, an devices. online businesses in the world, having Association of Health, Gentex Corp., Brunswick engineering and IT sta ng rm named for closed on $80 billion in home loans in In September, the company was named CEO, Court Bowling and Steelcase. a Japanese video game character, in 1999. 2015. Michigan, Clarkston by PM360, a trade publication for the Innovations, Ann It employs 38 in Grand Rapids and 13 in its It o¤ ers sta ng services for automotive, Daichendt, 55, has been at the helm of pharmaceutical, biotech and medical Since the company moved downtown Arbor Ann Arbor o ce, and expects revenue education, transportation, technology MTAM, the rst state-based mobile and device industries, as a Medical Device from Livonia in 2010, He has seen her this year of about $9 million, up from and manufacturing companies and has In 2014, Cartwright, 54, who has 32 years wireless industry trade association in the Company of the Year Trailblazer; and in technology team more than quadruple, $8.5 million last year. developed an online dashboard for of IT experience with a range of tech U.S., since 2010. It is made up of carriers, June, the magazine Red Herring named from 350 to almost 1,500. assembly plant management to check companies, founded Court Innovations, manufacturers, hardware developers, Erickson, 54, is a managing director of Celsee as one of the top 100 most production in real time. Responsible for the overall vision and which provides cloud-based online court so ware developers, wireless system Tappan Hill Ventures, a new venture promising companies in North America. leadership for technology initiatives negotiations and mediations to allow installers, tower manufacturers, mobile capital rm in Ann Arbor, and a director of Since 2009, Ganesan has been president across the organization, He was a critical litigants to settle cases without going to marketing vendors and business users of the Grand Angels angel investing group of the Detroit chapter of The Indus Meredith part of the launch late last year of Rocket court. Since 2011, she has also been the technology. in Grand Rapids. Entrepreneurs, an organization founded Mortgage, an app development project president of her own consulting company, to promote U.S.-India trade that now has Harper Daichendt founded Mobile Monday that took years to develop and which MJ Innovations, working with Ann 13,000 members and 61 chapters in 18 Chief information Michigan in 2009. It is a branch of the Elaina allowed customers to manage their entire Arbor Spark and the Michigan countries. privacy and security loan process on their phone. Economic Development Corp. and International Mobile Monday Farnsworth organization headquartered in Helsinki, On Oct. 27-28, Ganesan put on TiECon o cer, Henry Ford serving in interim senior-level CEO, Before joining Quicken, He was a program Mobile Midwest in Dearborn, an entrepreneurial , management roles with several area tech Finland, which currently has chapters in Health System manager with U.S. Bank from 1994-1996. Comply, Troy conference focusing on connected companies. more than 70 countries. There are state Detroit chapters in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Grand Since 2010, mobility and health care that drew several Harper, 45, who got her law degree from Don Hicks From 2006 to 2011, Cartwright was vice Rapids and Lansing, with more than 2,800 Farnsworth, a member of the 2013 class hundred, with an impressive roster of Loyola University Chicago, joined Founder, president president of product management and members who network weekly. of Crain’s 40 under 40, has been CEO of speakers, including Gov. Rick Snyder, business development for Ann Arbor- national and local entrepreneurs looking Henry Ford in 2003 as its rst chief and CEO, LLamaso In addition, she helped launch the Mobile Comply, a consulting company based HealthMedia Inc., a provider of to get funded by Manoj Bhargava, the privacy o cer a er completing a Inc., Ann Arbor Connected Transportation Virtual Trade that trains companies to compete in the online health care information and 5-Hour Energy billionaire, who said he consulting engagement with Health Show, a 24/7 online trade show for the areas of mobile connectivity and LLamaso , one of the wellness programs co-founded by Rick was willing to invest between $50,000 Alliance Plan. connected transportation ecosytem; is connected vehicles. fastest-growing and Snyder in 1998 when he was a venture and several million dollars in promising In 2012, Harper was promoted to her executive producer of Michigan Mobile Mobile Comply, the best-funded tech companies in the state, capitalist. It was sold to Johnson & Connected Vehicle health care technologies. current title, with responsibilities for Musings, a weekly podcast of MTAM; is a and was supposed to be a sideline. From 2005 Johnson in 2008 for $200 million. Trade Association SAE network security, privacy, risk board member of the Lansing-based jointly developed the rst to 2010, Hicks was CEO of another Ann International Paul Glomski management and access management. Michigan STEM Partnership; and is credentialing program in connected- Arbor company, a biotech called DNA Mamatha Harper has a reputation for helping CEO of South eld-based Strategic vehicle technology. CEO, Detroit Labs So ware Inc. women and minorities launch careers in Chamarthi Growth Concepts, a marketing and Since 2014, Farnsworth, 42, has been on LLC, Detroit technology, especially in information In 2004, he had put up a bare-bones consulting rm helping businesses Senior vice president, the Oakland County Connected Vehicle Detroit Labs was security, and serves on several advisory website for some supply chain so ware develop mobile and wireless strategies. chief digital o cer Task Force, and she is also founded in 2011 a er boards to help accomplish that. he’d bought at a discount and had formed communication director of the a company around it called LLamaso . It and CIO at ZF TRW, an investment of She is president of the board of the Je Epstein Connected Vehicle Trade Association, a was a nights-and-weekends proposition Livonia $250,000 by Detroit Medical Identity Fraud Alliance; Founder and CEO, nonpro t to advance the interests of that took o¤ dramatically in 2009. Venture Partners, the venture capital chairwoman of the Michigan Healthcare Before joining TRW Automotive those in the industry, and on the board of Ambassador, Royal rm founded by Dan Gilbert, Josh Linkner Cybersecurity Council; a committee Last October, Hicks, 48, sold an equity Holdings Corp., a tier-one auto supplier, the Clarkston-based Oak Mobile Technology and Brian Hermelin. member of the Health Information and stake in the company for $50 million to in 2014, Chamarthi, a graduate of the Association of Michigan. a liates of New York City-based at In 2009, Epstein, 35, Founded to create apps for commercial Management Systems Society; and Kellogg School of Management Goldman, Sachs & Co., the largest founded Ambassador, Previously, Farnsworth was director of customers, it now employs more than co-chair of the Detroit Chief Information Northwestern University, held IT round of venture capital funding in which makes o¤ -the-shelf and custom international extended services for St. 100, has created about 175 apps for 62 Security O cer Executive Summit. management posts at Consumers Michigan for a nonmedical company. Energy and DaimlerChrysler Financial so ware for what is called referral Clair Shores-based WSM International, clients, including Domino’s Pizza, DTE Services. marketing, where businesses set up a rm providing cloud-based services for Energy Co. and Chevrolet, and has Last November, LLamaso bought the rewards programs for customers who companies. opened an o ce in Ann Arbor. supply chain so ware division of While a vice president and CIO at refer their friends and social networks, Johannesburg, South Africa-based Consumers in 2012, Chamarthi was In 2013, Glomski, now 41, was named to but it has really taken o¤ in the past two Barloworld Ltd., and in January the named by Computer World and CIO that year’s class of Crain’s 40 under 40. years. company announced it was moving out of magazines as one of the top 100 CIOs in In 2014, the company launched an app for the 24,000 square feet it occupied in the the country. In April 2015, he closed on a rst the Detroit Police Department. Called First National Building downtown and into investment round of $2.35 million. At that In 2015, TRW was bought by German DPD Connect, it was developed at no cost almost 60,000 square feet of space at McKinley Towne Centre. CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // NOVEMBER 21, 2016 13

50 NAMES TO KNOW IN IT 50 NAMES TO KNOW IN IT to the city and was available as a free Candace Jimmy Hsiao Mike Klein download across all platforms, providing the community with breaking news, crime Hayden Founder and CEO, CEO, Genomenon updates, statistics and posts about Senior vice president Logic Solutions Inc., Ann Arbor wanted suspects. of information Inc., Ann Arbor In October, Klein, 55, a Detroit Labs has an apprenticeship technology, Hsiao, 53, founded veteran of the Ann program for those with no prior coding Hutchinson North America, Auburn Logic Solutions in Arbor tech scene, was experience. It has graduated more than named CEO of Genomenon, a 2014 spino¢ Hills 1995 to make custom web applications 40, about half women and the majority before most people had any idea what from the University of Michigan that Detroit residents. About half of the In 2013, Hayden, now 51, was named the World Wide Web was. His rst creates genome interpretation so ware graduates were hired by Detroit Labs. senior vice president of IT for Hutchinson, product was a prototype so ware for to help provide personalized medicine. which employs more than 9,000 at 16 internet-based collaboration for a major The company, which just launched its rst manufacturing locations — 12 in the U.S., Kalyan automaker. so ware product, Mastermind, a three in Mexico and one in Canada — with database of gene variants, won $100,000 Handique about $1.2 billion in sales. In 2008, Logic Solutions began creating smartphone apps. last November as the runner-up at the President and CEO, Four of Hutchinson’s divisions focus on annual Accelerate Michigan Innovation Celsee Diagnostics, the automotive industry, and the h is Today, the company, which employs competition in Detroit. In January, it Plymouth Township. focused on aerospace. Its automotive about 150, has developed web-based closed on a seed funding round of applications, websites and mobile apps Handique, 43, in 2000 co-founded divisions include anti-vibration and $940,000 belt-drive systems, uid management for more than 2,000 clients, including HandyLab Inc., which would become Most recently, Klein was co-CEO of Ann systems and precision sealing systems. automotive OEMs, universities, Fortune one of the most successful startups in 500 companies, nonpro ts and health Arbor-based Online Tech LLC, one of the state history. The company, which made Hayden’s specialties include technology care corporations. One was developed for state’s biggest enterprise-hosting, data bench-top devices for quick analysis of infrastructure solutions, enterprise the University of Michigan Medical storage and cloud-services companies, body uids and to detect food-borne resource planning systems, data security School’s College of Pharmacy to help with four data centers in Michigan and pathogens, was sold in 2009 to New and disaster recovery, quality assurance patients with atrial brillation, or irregular one in Indianapolis. Jersey-based Becton, Dickinson and and IT vendor management and heartbeats, monitor their hearts’ In 1993, Klein founded Ann Arbor-based Co. for $275 million. negotiations. performance away from the hospital or Steeplechase So ware Inc., which In 2011, Handique, 43, joined Celsee, then From 2005-2013, she was information doctor’s o ce. brought PC-based controls to the factory known as DeNovo Sciences, which was technology director for Hutchinson In 2000, Hsiao was a member of Crain’s oor and was sold in 2000. founded in 2010. That November 2011, Sealing Systems. 40 under 40. DeNovo attracted national attention Sandy when it won $500,000 as the top Linglong He Dan Irvin company in the Accelerate Michigan Kronenberg CIO, Quicken Loans Innovation event. CEO, 123Net Inc., Co-founder and CEO, Inc., Detroit South eld Since then, the company, which employs Service.com, 11 and has 10 contract workers, has He, 51, has been CIO Irvin, 56, founded Farmington Hills since 2010 and an IT 123Net in 1996. Today, undergone a name change, raised more Last December, Detroit-based Fontinalis executive at Quicken through organic than $10 million in capital and launched Partners LLC led an investment round of since 1996. Over that time, Quicken has growth and a series of acquisitions, it is several lab-on-a-chip diagnostic devices. $3.5 million for Service.com, a startup grown to become one of the biggest one of the largest Michigan-based It also sells kits and reagents for those that in conjunction with the funding online businesses in the world, having providers of internet and data-center devices. opened a second o ce, in Columbus, closed on $80 billion in home loans in services. It did its rst acquisition in 2001, In September, the company was named Ohio. 2015. of Local Exchange Carriers of by PM360, a trade publication for the Michigan Inc., and its most recent was Service.com, founded in 2013, has pharmaceutical, biotech and medical Since the company moved downtown in May 2015 of T2 Communications developed a smartphone app that helps device industries, as a Medical Device from Livonia in 2010, He has seen her LLC of Holland, its third acquisition in a companies manage representatives in the Company of the Year Trailblazer; and in technology team more than quadruple, from 350 to almost 1,500. year. eld, such as plumbers, electricians, June, the magazine Red Herring named delivery trucks and heating and cooling The company now has four co-location Celsee as one of the top 100 most Responsible for the overall vision and contractors. The app allows management centers in the state and more than 3,200 promising companies in North America. leadership for technology initiatives to follow the location of vehicles, take miles of ber cable. across the organization, He was a critical inventory, schedule jobs and accept Meredith part of the launch late last year of Rocket In June, 123Net added a wireless payments. It also alerts customers when Harper Mortgage, an app development project point-of-presence site atop the historic their service provider will arrive and sends that took years to develop and which Maccabees Building in Midtown, its h a photo of the provider. In 2014, the Chief information allowed customers to manage their entire PoP location in Detroit. With other company raised $2 million from a joint privacy and security loan process on their phone. locations at the Renaissance Center, venture of BMO Bank of Montreal and o cer, Henry Ford Before joining Quicken, He was a program Fisher Building, Penobscot Building and Toronto-based RBC Royal Bank. David Stott Building, it can wirelessly Health System, manager with U.S. Bank from 1994-1996. In 1997, Kronenberg, now 43, founded deliver data at two gigabits per second to Detroit Auburn Hills-based Netarx Inc., a any location in downtown, Midtown or the Don Hicks provider of information technology Harper, 45, who got her law degree from New Center. Loyola University Chicago, joined Founder, president services. In 2011, the rm, which had Henry Ford in 2003 as its rst chief and CEO, LLamaso annual revenue of $60 million, was sold Fred Jacobs for $34 million to the Logicalis Group of INCLUDES: privacy o cer a er completing a Inc., Ann Arbor consulting engagement with Health President, Jacobs the Farmington Hills. Alliance Plan. LLamaso , one of the Media Strategies fastest-growing and Bhushan Option to In 2012, Harper was promoted to her Inc., Bingham Farms 3 suite best-funded tech companies in the state, purchase current title, with responsibilities for was supposed to be a sideline. From 2005 Jacobs Media is an Kulkarni 12 tickets parking network security, privacy, risk to 2010, Hicks was CEO of another Ann example of an President and CEO, additional management and access management. passes Arbor company, a biotech called DNA old-school marketing company adapting InfoReady Corp., tickets Harper has a reputation for helping to the post-iPhone world. The company is So ware Inc. Ann Arbor; chairman women and minorities launch careers in credited (or blamed, depending on how technology, especially in information In 2004, he had put up a bare-bones you feel about Led Zeppelin and Ted and CEO, GDI security, and serves on several advisory website for some supply chain so ware Nugent) with creating the classic rock Infotech Inc., Ann Arbor Call 248.377.8477 and provide code: boards to help accomplish that. he’d bought at a discount and had formed radio format in the early 1980s. a company around it called LLamaso . It Kulkarni, 53, a member of the 2001 class BLACKFRIDAY She is president of the board of the was a nights-and-weekends proposition In 2008, Jacobs, now 65, began helping of Crain’s 40 under 40, founded InfoReady Medical Identity Fraud Alliance; that took o¢ dramatically in 2009. clients develop smartphone apps, in 2010, raising a seed funding round of chairwoman of the Michigan Healthcare eventually spinning out jacapps LLC as a $1.1 million. An IT services company, it Cybersecurity Council; a committee Last October, Hicks, 48, sold an equity separate entity. provides daily updates about new grants member of the Health Information and stake in the company for $50 million to from federal, state and philanthropic “At rst, we were hesitant. Do we really Management Systems Society; and a liates of New York City-based organizations for those seeking funding Games eligible: 12/4 vs Orlando, 12/11 vs 76ers, want to make an investment in co-chair of the Detroit Chief Information Goldman, Sachs & Co., the largest and is a social media site for the 12/21 vs Grizzlies, 12/28 vs Bucks, 1/3 vs Pacers, something we don’t know? We’re not a Security O cer Executive Summit. round of venture capital funding in grant-seeking community. 1/5 vs Hornets, 1/18 vs Hawks Michigan for a nonmedical company. so ware company,” said Vice President Paul Jacobs. “But the business just Kulkarni founded GDI Infotech, an IT Last November, LLamaso bought the exploded.” consulting company with clients across Offer expires 11/30/16. Based on availibility. supply chain so ware division of the U.S., in 1993. Not valid with any other offers. Johannesburg, South Africa-based Jacapps has created 1,000 apps, which Barloworld Ltd., and in January the have generated more than 25 million He was on the board of trustees at Walsh company announced it was moving out of downloads for its customers. College from 2000-2009 and is a past the 24,000 square feet it occupied in the chairman of the Ann Arbor Chamber of First National Building downtown and into Commerce. almost 60,000 square feet of space at McKinley Towne Centre. 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Corp., a large New York City furniture million last year, which allowed the O’Malley was CEO of Chicago-based return to its venture capital backers. 2003 until leaving for Detroit . maker; and Dearborn-based Ford Global company to hire a chief revenue o cer Nimso and then Chicago-based Segura, 46, who founded his company in Technologies LLC. Previously, Labovitz was a research and a COO. It now employs 28. When Duggan rst o¡ ered her a job by VelociData before joining Compuware. 1997, has carved out a space in his scientist with Microso and an phone, she was adamant about staying in From 1988 to 2012, he held a variety of Midtown headquarters called the The rst project Tome did with Ford Customers include , , engineering manager at the Ann Symantec Staples Kentucky. So he immediately drove to executives positions with New York-based Innovation Studio to explore new Global involved designing the sensors and a division of EMC So ware and eBay. Arbor-based Merit Network, where he Louisville, took her out to dinner and IT giant CA Technologies. applications for such things as the hardware that were the brains behind an In April 2015, LevelEleven was the only continued what ultimately was a internet of things, virtual and augmented electric bike that won the Best Product- worked on the National Science Compuware has made two acquisitions early-stage tech company from Michigan successful sales pitch. realities and data analytics. Gadget award at the Mobile World Foundation Network, a precursor of the and has launched at least one new and one of 12 in the U.S. to be invited to the Congress in 2015. modern internet. Since arriving here in February 2014, she product for eight straight quarters, the The rst product is a partnership with annual Google Demo Day in Mountain View, has replaced the city’s email system, rst new products since 1999. “We’re Microso Inc. and the Henry Ford Sigal was previously CEO at Livio Radio, Calif. 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CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // NOVEMBER 21, 2016 November 21, 2016 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Page17 17 Owner working on plans for REAL ESTATE long-vacant Kmart HQ in Troy OFFICE BUILDING By Kirk Pinho sity of Michigan/Urban Land Institute economic recession, those plans [email protected] Real Estate Forum panel with Rob- collapsed. NORTHVILLE TECHNOLOGY PARK e long-vacant former Kmart ert Taubman, chairman, president Both the Kmart property and the SPEC BUILDING COMING SOON! - MID 2017 COMPLETION Corp. headquarters in Troy is under- and CEO of Bloomeld Hills-based Somerset Collection are owned by 5 MILE AND BECK ROAD | NORTHVILLE TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN going a master-planning process Taubman Centers Inc. e event took Forbes Frankel Troy Ventures LLC. and more details are expected to be place at the Max M. and Marjorie S. e Detroit Free Press reported known in the next six to nine Fisher Music Center in Detroit. the December 2009 sale price of the months, according to the property’s After Kmart vacated the oce Kmart property as $17.5 million. owner. complex in the mid-2000s and Sidney Forbes, founder of Forbes Nate Forbes, managing partner of moved to Illinois as a subsidiary of Co., told Crain’s in 2012 that the pur- Southeld-based Forbes Co., said in Sears Holdings Corp., the plan was for chase of the Kmart property “was a 70,000 SF - 120,000 SF response to an audience question a $320 million redevelopment called defensive move” after Farmington • NEW CORPORATE FACILTIY FOR OFFICE, HI-TECH AND R&D during a panel discussion last week the Pavilions of Troy. Reston, Va.- Hills-based Grand/Sakwa Develop- • IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO M-14/I-275 VIA BECK ROAD that his company is “in the middle based developer Richardson Devel- ment began courting Somerset Col- FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT of a master-planning exercise” for opment Group Inc. was to be the de- lection tenants for a retail develop- ED WUJEK • DAVID GILTNER • BRANDON CARNEGIE the 1.1 million-square-foot vacant veloper; New York City-based equity ment. 248.353.5400 [email protected] oce building on Big Beaver Road fund BlackRock Inc. owned the prop- “So when we had the opportunity [email protected] and Coolidge Highway. erty at the time. to buy that land, we took it,” Sidney “We feel the need in Troy for a BlackRock paid $40 million for Forbes said four years ago. real communal place, a central the Kmart property in December Grand/Sakwa's plans stalled at gathering spot, surrounded by some 2005, according to CoStar Group Inc., the Troy City Council and there has potential lifestyle and other-type a Washington, D.C.-based real es- been little action on it since. uses complementary to Somerset,” tate information service. At its peak, the Kmart property said Forbes, who owns the nearby at project would have had accommodated 5,000 employees. JOB FRONT Somerset Collection shopping mall. 440,000 square feet of commercial When it was sold in 2005, it had few- He said there should be “some- and retail space, 132 residential er than 1,900, many of whom were PUBLIC RELATIONS thing to show the marketplace” in units, a public ice rink, a 3,000-seat transferred to Illinois. the next six to nine months. theater, restaurants and a grocery Kirk Pinho: (313) 446-0412 We welcome Lupita Distaso as our Forbes was speaking on a Univer- store. But under the weight of the Twitter: @kirkpinhoCDB new Purchasing Team Leader

Ms. Distaso brings a wealth of purchasing and “ e expressed interest has shot symptoms can range from not un- leadership experience from previous roles at AUTISM through the roof this year,” Allen said. derstanding nonverbal communica- Diversified Restaurant Holdings and FROM PAGE 3 “We’re denitely ahead of the curve tion, to lack of empathy, to obses- Little Caesar Enterprises. brutally honest, which can come nationally.” sive-compulsive behavior, to never Her business philosophy is based on trust, across as rudeness. Allen said the only limitation is the speaking. Less-severe cases are often transparency, dedication and teamwork. e program was developed with organizations’ ability to keep up with called Asperger’s syndrome, but the Autism Alliance of Michigan, a demand. Roughly 200 adults with au- many experts no longer use that nonprot founded by Dave Meador, tism are looking to get placed. term. Join our team! Visit www.nationalfoodgroup.com/careers today. vice chairman and chief administra- “We’re not in a hurry; we’re not More than half of people diag- tive ocer at DTE Energy Co. Autism going to just dump someone in an nosed with autism have average to MISCELLANEOUS Alliance trained Ford staers how to open position,” Allen said. “ is is a above-average intelligence, accord- MARKET interact with their new colleagues thoughtful process, and we want to ing to a 2014 study. SURVEY with autism, including creating di- make sure we get it right” to benet Companies are becoming more rect, concise job functions as well as the employee and encourage the aware of the benets of hiring adults ANALYZE PLACE understanding the employees’ social company to participate further. with autism, thanks to early adopters limitations. Autism represents a hefty eco- like Walgreen Co. ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES MATCH Ford’s vehicle evaluation and veri- nomic question as more and more of In 2007, Walgreens opened a dis- Detroit’s Funniest cation test lab participated in the those diagnosed reach working age. tribution center in Anderson, S.C., Comedy Magician Strolling Magic For: pilot program, and Ford will expand It’s imperative that employers in and piloted a program to employ Corporate Events, the new hires into information tech- Southeast Michigan, and the U.S., workers with disabilities — 33 per- Holiday Parties & nology and digital innovation de- adapt or miss out on a productive cent of the nearly 300 workers at that Hospitality Suites partments, Queen said. population with specialized skills, time — many of whom had autism. MagicShowz.com Mike Thornton 734-744-9600 e 60- to 90-day ramp-up pro- Allen said. To accommodate workers with au- CrainsDetroit.com/JobConnect | cess has begun, and the jobs are ex- Autism’s costs are growing — esti- tism, managers are instructed to INDUSTRIAL SERVICES pected to be lled in January. mated at $268 billion annually in the avoid metaphors and use direct in- C.W. JENNINGS e new positions will require a U.S. on treatment and loss of pro- struction and outt a break room bachelor’s degree, as did the previ- ductivity in 2015, rising to $461 bil- with beanbag chairs and puzzles to INDUSTRIAL EXCHANGE The Crain’s reader: Global Industrial Consulting ous positions. lion, or 1 percent of U.S. gross do- calm workers with autism who may 26.5% infl uence the Ford receives a federal work op- mestic product, by 2025, according feel sensory overload from the loud, Construction • Acquisitions purchase of offi ce/industrial portunity tax credit of $2,400 per to a 2015 study by researchers at the often frantic pace of a distribution Exporting • Financing adult with autism it hires. at credit, University of California-Davis and the center, Workforce magazine reported and commercial space. (855) 707-1944 however, does not completely oset University of Denver. Diabetes and at- in 2012. Help them fi nd you by LEGAL SERVICES the costs of the program, said Col- tention decit and hyperactivity dis- e Anderson center now em- advertising in Crain’s Real leen Allen, president and CEO of the order are the only diseases that cost ploys more than 40 percent with dis- Estate section. MEDICAL COLLECTIONS Autism Alliance. more than autism, and neither gen- abilities, and Walgreens opened a 38 YEARS EXPERIENCE Since Ford began its program in erally prevents people who have similar facility in Connecticut in 313.446.6086 • FAX: 313.446.034 7 WORKERS COMPENSATION & AUTO June, dozens of other companies them from working. 2009. E-Mail: cdbclassif [email protected] Reasonable fees contingent upon recovery Highest Peer Rating have sought similar programs In the U.S., it’s estimated that Allen said Southeast Michigan Former Adjunct member of Workers Comp through the Autism Alliance. e or- more than 3.5 million people and will be successful when autism hir- Appeal Board ganization is working with 38 com- one in 68 children (one in 42 for ing expands beyond seeking highly WILLIAM S. STERN - 248-353-9400 panies, either on creating programs boys) being born have autism spec- skilled adults with autism and looks www.sternlawfirm.com or are already commencing pilot trum disorder — a complex brain to match those in every category programs. condition associated with poor com- with jobs they can do. Allen declined to name the other munication skills — according to a “ ere’s a perception now that Call or email today for information companies as they navigate through 2014 Centers for Disease Control and those on the spectrum are these re- on a custom advertising plan! their initial pilot programs, but they Prevention study. In Michigan, the ally smart, highly functional people,” include 10 banking and nance state estimates there are 50,000 or Allen said. “Not everyone has three rms, seven manufacturing compa- more adults with autism, and grow- degrees.” [email protected] nies, three IT companies and others ing. Dustin Walsh: (313) 446-6042 313.446.6068 in dierent industries. It’s called a spectrum because the Twitter: @dustinpwalsh 18 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // NOVEMBER 21, 2016

agement before it begins layos. At the tionwide in 2013 fell to $17 billion, losing a daily would be a much bigger NEWS Detroit News, managers seek volun- down from a 2005 peak of $47.4 bil- deal (for advertisers), but today, while FROM PAGE 1 teers by the end of November. lion. e bulk of that has been in the it’s completely sad if that happens, it joint business functions — advertis- A memo sent to employees by News loss of classied ads, which once lled wouldn’t have a tremendous impact,” ing, printing, delivery, etc. — under an Editor and Publisher Jonathan Wol- entire sections of newspapers but have Davidson said. “We can reach people entity now called Michigan.com (for- man oered buyouts to everyone in almost entirely migrated to such on- in Southeast Michigan in so many dif- merly the Detroit Media Partnership) the newsroom regardless of age and line sources as Craigslist and Facebook. ferent ways online, we don’t have to while maintaining separate news- duties. It's unknown how many need “I remember we used to say ‘no’ to look exclusively at e Detroit News or rooms. to volunteer to take a buyout to meet retailers who wanted ad space on Page the Detroit Free Press.” e current agreement supplanted the budget goal. Volunteers will re- 3. We used to agonize over whether to Newspapers have poured a lot of a 100-year JOA formed by Gannett Co. ceive one week of severance pay for sell ads on section fronts,” said Hutton. resources into the websites, the News CHRIS EHRMANN Inc. (NYSE: GCI) and now-defunct every six months of employment, with “Now I look back and say, ‘We were so and Free Press included, but digital The papers have joint business Knight Ridder Inc., the former Free Press a maximum of 26 weeks of pay. clueless.’ Why didn't we see it coming? revenue growth remains dicult, “es- functions, while maintaining separate owner, in 1989. In recent years, the Free Press has Maybe we couldn’t see it. e guy who pecially with Facebook sucking up all newsrooms. at means that as soon as August reduced headcount through rounds of sold blocks of ice wasn’t the same guy the digital growth,” said Edmonds. 2018, persistent annual losses could Harshbarger said in August 2010 that it buyouts, early-retirement incentives who sold refrigerators. e guy who Newspapers around the world have trigger the end of the JOA by either was “working toward protability” but and layos, and it has required sta to sold ice by the block went away, but ice cut sta this year, and Jeeries & Co., newspaper’s corporate owner — Mc- was still losing money. take unpaid furloughs and pay freezes. didn’t.” the New York-based analyst, has cut Lean, Va.-based Gannett in the case of Hutton said the Detroit Media Part- Both papers and the partnership Growing digital revenue for news- third-quarter projections for such the Free Press, and New York City nership was “protable but not over- reduced headcount by 260 through papers hasn’t come close to making publishers as Gannett and the New hedge fund Alden Global Capital LLC for whelmingly so. We were already grap- buyouts between October 2007 and up for the print-ad loss. According to York Times Co. the News. pling with declining circulation, and July 2008. An additional 125 jobs were Pew, digital revenue was just $3.4 bil- In the past, the Poynter Institute’s “When the numbers say to stop advertising dollars were declining as collectively eliminated in June 2010, lion in 2013, up slightly from $3.3 bil- Edmonds has been critical of JOAs, having two papers, they’ll stop it,” said circulation declined.” and there have been periodic job cuts lion the year before. For Gannett, digi- saying the Newspaper Preservation Hutton. “Gannett is responsible to its Last Tuesday, the News oered since then. tal revenue dropped 5 percent in 2015 Act passed by Congress in 1970 to al- shareholders, not to the idea of a buyouts to its entire editorial sta, to $424 million from $447 million, ac- low them had the unintended conse- two-paper town.” seeking an unspecied number of job Ad revenue falls o cli cording to Pew. quence of actually harming newspa- It isn’t known if the papers are prof- reductions, and on ursday, the Free Much of the digital ad dollar is go- pers in cities where they went into itable now. Aaron Velthoven, spokes- Press asked for volunteer layos e sta reductions come amid an ing to Google and Facebook, which ac- eect. person and vice president of market- among targeted members of its edito- accelerating drop in print advertising. counted for almost two-thirds of digi- Newspaper JOAs peaked in the ing for Michigan.com, didn’t respond rial sta, including four assistant edi- According to GroupM, an ad-purchas- tal advertising revenue in 2015, 1990s with 28, but the agreements to a request ursday about whether tors, four web sta members, three re- ing rm owned by WPP PLC, global according to the Interactive Advertising have fallen from favor down to just the partnership was losing money. But porters, three copy editors, two spending on newspaper print ads is Bureau. ve, including the Detroit Media Part- losing money has been nothing new photographers and one page designer. expected to decline by nearly 9 per- Ellyn Davidson, managing partner nership and others in Fort Wayne, for the JOA. Both rounds of cutbacks are recent to $52.6 billion this year, the big- at Birmingham-based ad agency Bro- Ind.; Las Vegas; Salt Lake City; and David Hunke, Free Press publisher quired to meet 2017 budgets. gest drop since a fall of 13.7 percent gan & Partners, said the digital space York, Pa. Most JOAs ended in the dis- and partnership CEO until moving to ose at the Free Press who volun- during the Great Recession in 2009. has opened several new doors to ad- continuation of print publications, Gannett’s USA Today in 2009, said teer to take buyouts will get two weeks According to a 2014 report by the vertisers and relying on any single dai- mergers between two, or the conver- publicly that year that the joint news- of severance for every year of service, Pew Research Center’s Project for Ex- ly newspaper for ad buys is a thing of sion of one newspaper to online-only. paper operation was losing money. up to 40 weeks. e volunteers have cellence in Journalism, total print ad- the past. Gannett is the owner of the York en-partnership spokesman Rich until mid-December to notify man- vertising revenue for newspapers na- “If we were talking 20 years ago ... Daily Record in Pennsylvania, which operates in a JOA with e York Dis- patch, owned by Buckner News Alli- ance. Gannett has been involved in other JOAs in the past, including one between e Cincinnati Enquirer and e Cincinnati Post. at JOA expired in 2007 and e Post ceased print publication and went to online only at the Health Care Experience end of that year. “JOAs are on the way out,” Ed- ® monds told Crain’s ursday. “ e best online content is still be- In Your Corner. ing produced by newsrooms, but the revenue isn’t coming to the people Ŷ Focused on health care law for systems, who generate that content,” said Hut- physicians and payors in all market segments. ton. “ e aggregators are generating the revenue from content they don’t Ŷ Third party reimbursement, public and create. ey were smart enough to g- private health care provider nancing, ure that model out." Erik Gordon, a professor at the Ross and commercialization of physician School of Business at the University of inventions and ideas. Michigan, said he thinks it is inevitable that Detroit will become a one-paper town. “Every time there is a round of layos, you think maybe that’s all they need to stabilize their nances,” he said. “And it always turns out to be wishful thinking. “What will the bottom be? When one of them closes? It looks like only Chicago and New York will be able to remain as two-paper towns. But a one-paper town is better than a no-paper town. ere are a lot of those now. I live in Ann Arbor, and a few years ago, we became a no-paper town, which is good for politicians but not for the people.” Bill Shea also contributed to this First Tier Ranking in Health Care Law story. Dustin Walsh: (313) 446-6042 Twitter: @dustinpwalsh Ŷ Detroit Ŷ Novi Ŷ Grand Rapids Ŷ Kalamazoo Ŷ Grand Haven Ŷ Lansing Ŷ Ann Arbor Ŷ Hastings Contact Scott Alfree at [email protected] Tom Henderson: (313) 446-0337 Twitter: @TomHenderson2 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // NOVEMBER 21, 2016 19

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U.S. autoworkers made 16.1 global new-vehicle market in 2015 to cars per worker, and workers in Mexico manufacturers tari-free, while auto- made 5.1 in 2014, according to data makers in the U.S. had access to only 9 compiled by CAR. percent, according to research by With the much higher level of pro- CAR. ductivity, largely due to automation, About 18 percent of vehicles as- only 274,987 total jobs would be sembled in Mexico are now exported needed to sustain current Mexico and to non-NAFTA markets. at’s expect- U.S. car production. ed to grow to about 28 percent by Another stumbling block for parts 2020, according to data compiled by manufacturing is that taris are low CAR. with or without NAFTA. Under the Quite simply, it’s cheaper for man- agreement, parts suppliers pay a 2.5 ufacturers to ship cars and parts to percent tari. 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THING Ford, UAW commit $6M toward Y Motown Museum expansion By Sherri Welch million over the next ve years from [email protected] Ford and the Ford Motor Co. Fund to VER Ford Motor Co. and UAW-Ford have fund, among other things, a renewal made a joint $6 million commitment of the carmaker’s three-year sponsor- E to help fund expansion of the Mo- ship of America’s anksgiving Pa-

IS town Museum. rade and the Ford Fireworks, and a With the grant, the Dear- second Ford Resource and Engage- Advanced technologies and global competition require new skills. Lawrence born-based automaker and the ment Center in Detroit to provide Technological University's innovative certificate programs, bachelor's and graduate union become the lead donor in the community, educational, arts and so- campaign, which was announced in cial services programs. degrees in Colleges of Architecture and Design, mid-October. Ford declined to say Located on West Grand Boulevard LTU ranks fifth among U.S. colleges and Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Management universities for boosting graduates’ what each organization is contribut- in the Hitsville USA house and Studio can help you succeed. earning power. – Brookings Institution ing. A, the birthplace of Motown Records, In recognition of the support, the the Motown Museum is in the midst expanded museum will include: of a $50 million capital campaign to 2016 2016 2016 TOP 10% J e Ford Motor Company eater, fund the expansion. BEST COLLEGES AMERICA’SBEST NATIONALLY in the Midwest UNIVERSITIES Highest Alumni a state-of-the-art performance venue. In addition to the theater, the Princeton U.S. News & Salaries Review® World Report® PayScale J Educational, music and other pro- 40,000-square-foot expansion will Lawrence Technological University gramming tied to Ford’s student and house interactive exhibits, a cafe and 21000 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48075-1058 | 800.225.5588 | [email protected] | www.ltu.edu community outreach initiatives. expanded retail. J CARaoke Experience, an interac- e timeline for the expansion de- tive Ford-branded activity that incor- pends on the pace of fundraising, but porates music with Ford vehicles. the museum wants it to happen J Ford as the museum’s ocial vehi- quickly, Chairwoman and CEO Robin cle. Terry said in October. e commitment to the Motown Sherri Welch: (313)446-1694 Museum follows pledges totaling $10 Twitter: @SherriWelch

Icahn extends oer to gain total control over Federal-Mogul By Dustin Walsh cent of the shares not owned by [email protected] Icahn, is angling for a $13 per share Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is bid for the company. extending his o er to gain total con- e bid to buy the remaining stake trol over Southeld-based Feder- comes after Federal-Mogul scrapped al-Mogul Holdings Corp. as competi- its plan in January to split the compa- tion to control the supplier heats up. ny into two separate public entities. Icahn, through a subsidiary of his Company ocers pointed to market rm Icahn Enterprises LP, entered conditions as the culprit behind its into a denitive agreement in Sep- decision not to split its aftermarket tember with Federal-Mogul to ac- parts division from its powertrain di- quire the remaining shares the rm vision. does not own — approximately 18 In December, Icahn won a $1.03 percent. Icahn o ered to pay $9.25 billion bidding war for auto parts re- per share in an all-cash deal, which tail chain Pep Boys. Experts believe represents 86 percent higher than the Icahn plans to use the parts retailer supplier’s share price of $4.98 on Feb. as a mainline for Federal-Mogul 26, when Icahn rst proposed the parts but fear his vertical integration buyout for $7 per share. strategy will hurt the company over Icahn, however, had only secured the long term. about 23 percent of the remaining Pep Boys’ 800 stores, paired with shares ahead of the Tuesday dead- Icahn’s other aftermarket retailer, the line, Icahn Enterprises said in a state- 278-location Auto Plus, would make ment. e rm needs a 51 percent up the fth-largest retail auto parts majority of the remaining shares to chain in the U.S. Even with Pep Boys’ take full control of the company. stores, Auto Plus would be signi- Icahn is extending the bid until cantly smaller than rivals Advance Dec. 15, but is not raising the share Auto Parts Inc., Autozone Inc. and per price at $9.25, or approximately O’Reilly Automotive Inc. $281 million. It’s unclear whether Icahn taking e extension is a blow to Icahn, full control of Federal-Mogul would who is reportedly battling Gabelli As- expedite that process. set Management Company Investors Federal-Mogul (NASDAQ: FDML) for the company. e New York Post shares traded at $9.92, above Icahn’s reported Gabelli, which owns 36 per- o er, in Tuesday morning trading. CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // NOVEMBER 21, 2016 21

Detroit’s top paid 2013 with a 9.59 average and in 2012 “I really don’t have anything to say PLAYERS athletes with a 9.21 average. on these topics. We have a healthy FROM PAGE 3 e sustained local ratings success partnership with the Tigers, Red Wings Fox Sports Detroit increases, it passes These are the 25 highest-paid has been lucrative for the network. and Pistons, which will continue for www.crainsdetroit.com that cost along to Comcast and the professional athletes in the city. We While not disclosing specics, FSD years to come. Like our team partners, Editor-in-Chief Keith E. Crain compiled all of the Detroit athlete other distributors. In turn, they pass has reported steady year-over-year we are committed to serving Detroit Group Publisher Mary Kramer, (313) 446-0399 salaries at crainsdetroit.com/sports or [email protected] that cost along to their customers in gains in advertising revenue for Tigers sports fans with the best, most engag- Associate Publisher Ron Fournier, (313) 446-1674 or the form of fees paid per subscriber. *Salaries are in millions. broadcasts. ing action,” he said via email. [email protected] Miguel Cabrera, Tigers $28* Editor Jennette Smith, (313) 446-1622 ose fees have steadily increased Media industry analysts S&P Global e Tigers also declined to com- or [email protected] consumers’ monthly bills, and sparked Justin Verlander, Tigers $28 Market Intelligence predicted before ment. Director, Digital Strategy, Audience Development the national wave of cord-cutting. Justin Upton, Tigers $22.13 the season that FSD would generate e network has taken advantage of Nancy Hanus, (313) 446-1621 or [email protected] “It’s a problem for regional sports $178.7 million this year in overall reve- the nontraditional platforms to get its Managing Editor Michael Lee, (313) 446-1630 Andre Drummond, Pistons $22.12 or [email protected] networks. ere will be a revenue hit,” nue against $139.9 million in operat- live content and games in front of con- Managing Editor/Custom and Special Projects Daniel said Andrew Zimbalist, a sports econ- Victor Martinez, Tigers $18 ing expenses, with the majority from sumers online via Fox Sports Go, Duggan, (313) 446-0414 or [email protected] Jordan Zimmerman, Tigers $18 Assistant Managing Editor Kristin Bull, omist at Smith College and author of Tigers games. Much of FSD’s revenue which is available to subscribers of all (313) 446-1608 or [email protected] several sports nance books who has Tobias Harris, Pistons $17.20 comes from the fee it charges cable cable/satellite services that carry the Digital Editor Carlos Portocarrero (313) 446-6056 or been a consultant for baseball. Some Matthew Sta©ord, Lions $17 and satellite providers to air its con- network’s linear channel and have [email protected] regional networks have lost money, he tent, which is $4.25 per subscriber. digital streaming rights, FSD said. For News Editor Beth Reeber Valone, (313) 446-5875 Anibal Sanchez, Tigers $16 or [email protected] noted, but they will seek to oset de- at’s the fourth most expensive example, DirecTV subscribers can Reggie Jackson, Pistons $14.96 Senior Editor Gary Piatek, (313) 446-0357 clines with new distribution platforms per-subscriber fee of any RSN in the watch Fox Sports Go on their digital or [email protected] Ian Kinsler, Tigers $14 Research and Data Editor Sonya Hill, (313) 446-0402 such as streaming on mobile services. nation. e most expensive is $5.36 in devices, but Comcast subscribers cur- or [email protected] Moody’s Investors Service also Jon Leuer, Pistons $10.99 the New York market for the Yankees rently cannot. Newsroom (313) 446-0329, FAX (313) 446-1687, warned of the threat to RSNs in a July Riley Rei© , Lions $8.07 Entertainment and Sports Network Live Fox Sports Detroit program- TIP LINE (313) 446-6766 report, suggesting even that some Mark Pelfrey, Tigers $8 (owned 80 percent by Twenty-First ming is available on services such as REPORTERS could merge. Century Fox Inc. and 20 percent by the Sling TV, Sony VUE, the soon to be Marti Benedetti General assignment (313) 446-0416 or Henrik Zetterberg, Red Wings $7.75 [email protected] “High-dollar commitments for New York Yankees). It airs Yankee base- launched Hulu Live, which replicate Francisco Rodriguez, Tigers $7.50 Jay Greene, senior reporter Covers health care, long-term contracts for the regional ball games, Brooklyn Nets basketball the traditional cable service agree- insurance, energy, utilities and the environment. sports networks rights in the face of Boban Marjanovic, Pistons $7 and New York City FC soccer matches. ments but do so with a “skinny” bun- (313) 446-0325 or [email protected] Chad Halcom Covers litigation, the defense industry, lower subscribers and ad revenues in a J.D. Martinez, Tigers $6.75 Next is Spectrum SportsNet LA (Dodg- dle, FSD said. education, Macomb and Oakland counties. (313) direct-to-consumer environment Mike Green, Red Wings $6 ers games) at $4.59 per subscriber, and Some industry insiders say the me- 446-6796 or [email protected] could spell disaster for many RSNs ( , dia rights bubble is untrue. Tom Henderson Covers banking, nance, technology Mark Lowe, Tigers $5.50 Fox Sports Arizona Diamondbacks and biotechnology. (313) 446-0337 or and the teams they are linked to,” Suns, and Coyotes) at $4.43 each. “It’s not happening,” said Lee Berke, Jimmy Howard, Red Wings $5.50 [email protected] Moody’s Senior Vice President Neil One factor that helps sports broad- president and CEO of Scarsdale, N.Y.- Kirk Pinho Covers real estate, city of Detroit. (313) Begley wrote. “ ey will likely see a Niklas Kronwall, Red Wings $5.50 cast rights is that consumers prefer to based sports media consulting rm 446-0412 or [email protected] Bill Shea, enterprise editor Covers media, advertising signicant drop-o in subscribers DeAndre Levy, Lions $5.25 watch games live rather than record- LHB Sports, Entertainment & Media Inc., and marketing, the business of sports, and when teams are inactive and un- Justin Abdelkader, Red Wings $5 ing them, meaning advertising will be which works with teams on media transportation. (313) 446-1626 or [email protected] Lindsay VanHulle, Lansing reporter. (517) 657-2204 der-performing, which could result in Golden Tate, Lions $4.75 seen live and not fast-forwarded past rights deals. or [email protected] some mergers between RSNs.” on a DVR. at’s meaningful to adver- e proliferation of platforms and Source: Spotrac Dustin Walsh, senior reporter Covers the business of e highest-prole example of how tisers, who are willing to pay a premi- demand for sports content on them law, auto suppliers, manufacturing and economics. (313) 446-6042 or [email protected] this is playing out nationally is ESPN: It um for spots during games locally and means there is more than enough de- Sherri Welch, senior reporter Covers nonprots, lost 621,000 cable subscribers for No- ciencies, and some have been unable nationally. mand to generate revenue, he said. services, food and hospitality. (313) 446-1694 or vember alone, the worst month in the to nd buyers or have had to reduce ere’s another factor that makes “ e audience is still there. ey’re [email protected] network’s history and a nancial de- fees for programming. Examples cited the Detroit broadcast rights situation going to be nding their content on ADVERTISING cline of $52 million, according to a included the Tennis Channel failing to unique: e Pistons soon are expected dierent screens. Ultimately, one or Sales Inquiries (313) 446-6032; FAX (313) 393-0997 Advertising Director Matthew Langan comprehensive report by the “Outkick sublicense a French Open package to to announce they’re relocating next more of these new distribution outlets Senior Account Manager Katie Sullivan e Coverage” college football blog on any of the major TV networks, and the season to play at the new Little Caesars will be creating gross payers,” Berke Advertising Sales Christine Galasso, Gerry Golinske, Oct. 29. e subscriber loss data was International Champions Cup — the Arena alongside the Red Wings. Pistons said. “ e mix of distributors paying Diane Owen, Sarah Stachowicz Classied Sales Manager Angela Schutte, culled from Nielsen Inc. information. soccer exhibition series owned by Uni- owner Tom Gores and Red Wings and for the content will change over time. (313) 446-6051 ESPN charges providers about $7 a versity of Michigan mega-donor Ste- Tigers owner Mike Ilitch theoretically It’s a much more sophisticated busi- Classied Sales Lynn Calcaterra, (313) 446-6086 month, and now is estimated to have phen Ross — reducing it rights fee. could seek to bargain new deals togeth- ness that it was even ve years ago.” Marketing/Events Director Kim Winkler Events Manager Kacey Anderson about 92 million subscribers. e net- Both ESPN and Fox Sports have cut er (which could include equity in FSD), Backing him up is a Pricewater- Senior Art Director Sylvia Kolaski work uses its per-subscriber revenue or bought out hundreds of employees or even launch their own network — a houseCoopers report from October Marketing Manager Marilyn Banes to buy sports broadcast rights, an ex- to save money. potentially expensive proposition. about the sports industry. It predicts Special Projects Coordinator Keenan Covington Sales Support Suzanne Janik penditure forecast to hit $7.3 billion What may help stave o problems Half of MLB’s teams own some or that media rights spending will con- Production Manager Wendy Kobylarz next year, according to SNL Kagan. at locally is that the Tigers remain a rat- all of their regional sports network. tinue to increase, from $18.2 billion Production Supervisor Andrew Spanos includes NFL and MLB games, the Col- ings powerhouse for FSD. It averaged a at’s a strategic move by team own- this year to $21.2 billion by 2020. at’s CUSTOMER SERVICE , and several college 7.01 household rating for its slate of ers because local broadcast rights pay- nearly double the total broadcast Main Number: Call (877) 824-9374 lege Football Playo or [email protected] conferences (including the Big Ten). Tigers games, according to Nielsen Co. ments are subject to revenue sharing; rights spending in 2011, which was Subscriptions $59 one year, $98 two years. Out of state, Current subscriber losses are ex- viewership data for the Detroit market. but revenue from an ownership stake $10.8 billion. $79 one year, $138 for two years. Outside U.S.A., add $48 per year to out-of-state rate for surface mail. Call (313) pected to reach 15 million over the at was third-best in baseball, and a in a network is not. In theory, if the Ti- PWC denes media rights as fees 446-0450 or (877) 824-9374. past ve years, leaving ESPN with 86 13 percent improvement over 2015’s gers owned their own network, they paid to show sporting events on Single Copies (877) 824-9374 million subscribers in 2017, according 6.21 average rating for 150 games could avoid a huge rights fee increase broadcast and cable television net- Reprints (212) 210-0750; or Krista Bora at to Clay Travis of “Outkick the Cover- (fourth-best in MLB). — 34 percent of which would be works, television stations, terrestrial [email protected] To nd a date a story was published (313) 446-0406 age.” He expected that to fall to 74 mil- e average Major League Baseball shared with the other 29 teams — and radio, satellite radio, the Internet, and or e-mail [email protected] lion subscribers by 2021, and the de- local TV rating this season collectively keep all of the network’s revenue. on mobile devices. Crain’s Detroit Business is published by clines in subscriber fee revenue would was 3.04. Only the Kansas City Royals For now, the near term looks stable e report also estimates that the Crain Communications Inc. Chairman Keith E. Crain then outpace the cost of rights fees — (10.85) on Fox Sports Kansas City, and for Fox Sports Detroit: S&P Global overall sports market in North Ameri- President Rance Crain meaning ESPN would have to rely on St. Louis Cardinals (8.18) on Fox Sports Market Intelligence estimates that it ca as a whole — the combined value of Treasurer Mary Kay Crain advertising and other revenue streams Midwest had better household average will retain its rate of being in 2 million ticket sales, media rights, corporate Senior Executive Vice President William A. Morrow Executive Vice President/Director of Strategic to cover its costs. ratings than the Tigers. homes in Michigan across various sponsorship spending, and merchan- Operations Chris Crain A report in May by Sports Business Two years ago, Tigers games on providers, the largest being Comcast, dising — will grow at a compound an- Executive Vice President/Director of Corporate Daily, based on interviews with a doz- FSD nished with a 7.72 household through at least 2017. nual rate of 3.5 percent from $63.9 bil- Operations KC Crain Vice President/Production & Manufacturing en league and network executives, rating that was second in baseball, and Fox Sports Detroit has aired Tigers lion in 2015 to $75.7 billion in 2020. Dave Kamis said networks are seeking cost e- led all MLB clubs for local ratings in games since 1998, when it won the Currently, ticket sales is the largest Chief Financial Ocer Bob Recchia broadcast rights from the now-de- industry revenue segment, but the re- Chief Information Ocer Anthony DiPonio G.D. Crain Jr. Founder (1885-1973) funct Pro-Am Sports System, owned at port forecasts that media rights will Mrs. G.D. Crain Jr. Chairman (1911-1996) INDEX TO COMPANIES the time by the Washington Post Co.’s overtake it within two years. Editorial & Business Oces These companies have signicant mention in this week’s Crain’s Detroit Business: Post-Newsweek Stations Inc. 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backed up and ooded because they GREEN are hooked up to the same drains. FROM PAGE 1 e August 2014 storm that ooded property owners to capture rain- parts of Detroit caused $1.1 billion in water on their land for gradual re- damages and led to a federal disaster lease into either drains or allow it designation. to naturally percolate into the ground. Otherwise, the water runs Detroit plans off all at once from buildings and parking lots and into already over- To address this issue in Detroit, whelmed drainage systems. Mayor Mike Duggan has revised the city’s longer-term e ort of improving Revenue streams stormwater drainage. He scrapped a 6-year-old, $1.2 billion construction Green infrastructure is an ap- plan to build more massive drains and proach to stormwater management instead decided to embark on a $50 that protects, restores or mimics the million program on green infrastruc- natural water cycle, said Don Car- ture projects in the Upper Rouge area penter, professor of civil engineering on the city's far west side. at Lawrence Technological University On Oct. 1, Detroit also began and director of the Great Lakes charging property owners for water Stormwater Management Institute. runo based on how much impervi- And it's incredibly important, Car- ous acreage they have instead of how penter said. large their water meter is. e charge “One of the things we rely on as a for nonresidential owners is $750 per Great Lakes state is water resources,” acre of impervious surface per month. he said. “It (impacts) our economy, Fees are coming for other businesses, environment and quality of life. We KRESGE FOUNDATION nonprots and homeowners. need revenue streams locally to fund The Kresge Foundation’s 3-acre Troy campus from the perspective of a drone shows the wetland landscape that is designed Duggan's plan encourages busi- water management.” either to naturally lter water back into the ground or capture stormwater that falls on the property, storing it in two ponds nesses and residential homeowners Green infrastructure also is e ec- pictured to the le of the main building that also irrigates the vegetation and green roofs. to invest in green infrastructure that tive, economical and can enhance can divert water from public drains by community safety and quality of life, led against municipalities, includ- can’t a ord to do a police budget so McCready’s bill. o ering fee credits for the invest- Carpenter said. Planting trees and re- ing Birmingham, challenging how we have no crime at all.” “We are supportive of a concept to ments. In a post-bankruptcy Detroit, a storing wetlands is cheaper and more taxes are charged for stormwater have a statewide approach to avoid new regional governing entity, the pleasing to the eye than building larg- runo got him interested in the issue. Tapped out having a patchwork quilt of plans,” Great Lakes Water Authority, signed a er drains or water treatment plants. For example, Birmingham has Such said. “We think it is a good idea 40-year lease with Detroit for $50 mil- “People pay for roads and bridges agreed to pay $2.85 million to settle a Hersey said the traditional way of to allow local units to decide how to lion a year. Detroit is using these funds and support it because they can see lawsuit and must submit a plan to the funding stormwater drains doesn’t coordinate how they do it and give to overhaul its aging infrastructure. it,” he said. “ey don't understand court by the end of the year. Ferndale work anymore. credits for green infrastructure.” Green infrastructure projects in- infrastructure of pipes and ponds also recently settled for $4.25 million, “A lot of people think these storms Such said one problem large man- clude elimination of impervious underground because they don't see and a similar lawsuit against Royal are being taken care of by taxes they ufacturing companies have is that ground surfaces that don’t allow wait. Green infrastructure, people can Oak is pending, he said. pay,” he said. “Communities are each tax body has a di erent method ter to soak through by constructing see it” and it works to assist natural “is money is not going back to tapped out (on taxes). ey are un- how to charge for stormwater runo . bioswales, wetlands, rain gardens and water cycles. residents to x stormwater” runo likely to cut re and police to pay for “When companies invest in infra- other methods that allow rain and In a presentation last month at problems, McCready said. “We need stormwater.” structure improvements, they would melted snow to more naturally lter Lawrence Tech, Je Andresen, state to create a law to (help governmen- Nash said because most communi- like to have those costs recognized in into the ground, rather than running climatologist and assistant professor tal bodies) manage runo .” ties don’t have dedicated methods to the fee structure,” Such said. “e o into city sewers. of geography at Michigan State Uni- McCready said the bill addresses pay for stormwater drains, they take it other thing is the fees raised by this Carpenter said he supports De- versity, conrmed Michigan has ex- the problems created by the lawsuit from property taxes or through water system should be spent on this sys- troit's fee structure and emphasis on perienced wetter and more extreme and a 1998 Michigan Supreme Court bill charges. tem. We want it transparent for where encouraging green infrastructure. weather events the past decade and decision on Bolt v. City of Lansing. However, Hersey said using prop- money goes.” “Detroit is a combined sewer sys- since 1930. e court ruled the fee Lansing im- erty taxes is an inherently unfair way tem, and lots of stormwater runo “(Data simulations) on the Great posed was actually a tax that re- to pay for stormwater because it is Over ows bring scares goes into the sanitary system,” Car- Lakes region suggest a warmer and quired voter approval. e ruling set based on the value of a property and penter said. “ey are trying to come wetter climate in the distant future, up a clear method to charge proper- not the relative amount of runo from Stormwater runo is related to a up with an equitable structure to with much of the additional precipi- ty owners for runo , he said. the property that goes into drains. more serious health policy issue — maintain their infrastructure using tation coming during the cold sea- Nationally, more than 1,500 com- “Some properties are big and un- the practice of releasing untreated natural systems.” son months,” said Andresen. munities in states such as Florida, derdeveloped. ere is less runo ” wastewater into lakes and rivers Hersey said public infrastructure “Given the projected rate of cli- Arizona and Ohio have approved because the ground is permeable, when the systems can't keep up with investment is important to business, mate change, adaptive planning stormwater utility taxing districts Hersey said. “Some (properties) are volume. economic prosperity and the environ- strategies should be dynamic in na- that charge property owners fees to much smaller but more developed, Because Michigan has 46 comment. ture,” he added. pay for runo . About 45 govern- have more roofs, with a lot of runo bined sewer systems, the third-larg- “People want to live in a place ments in Michigan have created coming o . ey pay less in taxes even est total in the nation, the danger of where services are good, the environ- New legislation stormwater utilities to charge prop- though they use far more (drainage) overow when stormwater volume ment is safe, schools are good and erty owners for public drainage sys- services.” exceeds drain capacities can lead to they are not in fear of crime,” Hersey At the state level, Rep. Mike tems, but some of those utilities are Hersey said paying based on the discharges of untreated sewage and said. “If any of those things are out of McCready, R-Birmingham, has pro- now under assault from the Bolt de- use of the system, allowing for credits industrial wastes into nearby water whack, you have problems and peo- posed model legislation, House Bill cision, McCready said. for green infrastructure that retains bodies. Public health ocials warn ple won’t stay. at is problematic for 5991, that would allow local govern- Owners that build retention runo , is a much fairer system. that people can become sick by businesses.” mental subdivisions to collect fees ponds to limit runo from parking “Under the green infrastructure drinking or being exposed to the Jay Greene: (313) 446-0325 rather than property taxes for storm- lots, buildings and other surfaces policy, if you reduce the amount of contaminated water. Twitter: @jaybgreene water abatement and grant credits also can potentially reduce their tax water running o property, your bill Combined sewer systems include against “green infrastructure” capital burden, he said. e bill allows a tax would be reduced,” Hersey said. “e those in Detroit, Dearborn, Oakland BANKRUPTCIES projects. ese projects include re- writeo equal to 80 percent of quali- company can turn its engineers loose. County, Wyandotte, Saginaw, Ma- e following businesses led for tention ponds, rooftop rain gardens, fying green infrastructure costs. If I plant trees or vegetation, put in comb County and Lansing. Each of protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in community gardens and bioswales, Chuck Hersey, senior fellow at technological systems, what will my those systems experienced millions Detroit Nov. 11-17. Under Chapter 11, a which are essentially vegetated Lansing-based Public Sector Consul- return on investment be? You’ll be of gallons of overow into bodies of company les for reorganization. ditches. tants, said McCready’s bill is im- saving money.” water after 2- to 3-inch rainfalls in 24- Chapter 7 involves total liquidation. “Businesses are already paying for portant because it helps govern- Andy Such, director of environ- hour periods since 2008, said the J De-Tech Collision Inc., 10000 Green- (stormwater drainage costs). is mental bodies comply with Bolt, mental quality with the Michigan Man- state Department of Environmental eld Road, Detroit, voluntary Chap- tightens it up and prevents (owners) creates uniform standards and en- ufacturing Association, said the Quality. ter 11. Assets and liabilities not avail- from being overcharged and sets up courages green infrastructure con- 2,500-member business group favors During these heavy rains, which able. an appropriate amount,” McCready struction. such an approach that creates a uni- occurred three times this past sum- J L. Brothers LLC, 735 W. Huron St., said. “We can’t build sewers so big that form fee structure with credits for mer, thousands of homes and busi- Pontiac, voluntary Chapter 7. Assets Over the last several years, we treat everything,” he said. “It green infrastructure. He said the nesses su ered water damage as and liabilities not available. McCready said, a series of lawsuits would cost too much, just as we MMA hasn’t completely vetted sewer systems and drainage pipes Chris Ehrmann CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // NOVEMBER 21, 2016 23 THE WEEK ON THE WEB RUMBLINGS NOVEMBER 12-18 Accounting rm BDO J A study by Detroit engineering MOT names Detroit Digits rm Mannik & Smith Group Inc. has to move down Big Beaver found that the half-built Wayne new principal A numbers-driven look at last County Consolidated Jail project On Dec. 5, the 150 employees in week's headlines: downtown is structurally sound, the Troy oce of the accounting conductor meaning the county can move for- rm of BDO USA LLP will move from 2,000 ward on nishing construction with- the Top of Troy building, where the tephen Lord, music director The square footage of the new GM out any demolition. rm was the rst tenant when it of the Opera Theatre of St. Company Store, the rst J BFD Corktown LLC, the New York opened in 1975, to the Bank of Louis, was named to the new completed project in a planned City-based owner of the CPA Building America building a little way down Sposition of principal conductor of renovation and expansion at in Corktown, was issued a demolition Big Beaver Road. the Michigan Opera Theatre as MOT General Motors Co.’s global permit, according to online Detroit e employees will move from searches for a successor to retiring headquarters in the Renaissance city records, but a Detroit City Council 18,000 square feet of traditional founder David DiChiera. Lord, a fre- Center in Detroit. The store sells committee passed a resolution that space lled with individual oces quent conductor in Detroit since ocial GM merchandise. could be the rst step toward saving into 22,000 square feet of what 2004, will continue to hold the St. the 11,000-square-foot building built BDO is calling “smart ocing,” as Louis position during his at least in 1923. If approved, it would grant the it revamps or moves its 60-some BDO USA LLP $380,000 The lobby area of BDO USA LLP’s two-year MOT appointment. The amount in awards from the building interim historic designation oces nationwide. BDO takes for a year as an advisory board studies over the entire top oor, which new facility in Troy. Michigan Good Food Fund to COMPANY NEWS healthy food retail projects around whether the building should be placed comes with two rooftop, outdoor J iServe Inc., a Northville company the state, among which are eorts in a local historic district. patios. Detroit to get LEED-certi ed in J that oers home soft-serve dessert to launch a grocery store in an Demolition of buildings on the Gone are individual oces. 2007, has an interesting history. It making systems, and Mutual Adora- underserved Detroit neighborhood site of the former Jim Fresard Ponti- ey are replaced by an open oor was called the Taj Mahal for its de- , a Detroit-based workshop that in Royal Oak began to plan buttressed by 13 meeting sign and spare-no-expense details tion and to expand the Northwest ac-Buick-GMC transforms reclaimed wood and sal- clear a path for a planned hotel and rooms and such staples of 21st when it was built as the headquar- Detroit Farmers Market. vaged materials into handcrafted mixed-use project. century oces as sit-stand desks. ters for Standard Federal Bank in home items, claimed $10,000 rst- J e Detroit Regional Chamber said e feel is similar to that of the new 1990. Thomas Ricketts, the bank's place prizes at the fth Entrepreneur $6 million restoring civility in American politics headquarters opened in down- CEO, forbade any employee from The newly announced nancial You Pitch Competition in Detroit. will be one of the central themes at town earlier this year by Fih Third bringing lunch, coee or even bot- commitment by Ford Motor Co. e contest for women entrepre- the 2017 Mackinac Policy Confer- Bank. tled water into the building for fear and UAW-Ford to help fund the neurs was presented by the nonprof- ence, set from May 30 to June 2 on e building, the rst in metro of crumbs or stains. Motown Museum expansion in it Michigan Women’s Foundation and Mackinac Island. e rst con rmed Detroit. The museum will include a Washington, D.C.-based Spring- conference speakers were Stephanie new theater, programming tied to board Enterprises. Cutter, a former senior adviser to Ford’s student and community Is biz court mostly an Oakland court? J New York City eyeglasses retailer President Obama and a political outreach initiatives, and the Warby Parker said it will open its rst commentator on CNN, and Nicolle Michigan may need a system to cases this year. interactive CARaoke Experience. Michigan store this week on Wood- Wallace, a former White House com- weigh the complexity of business e two judges said they aver- ward Avenue in downtown Detroit. munications director and conserva- cases to calculate the true work- age more than 200 such business J Carson’s has opened in-store J A government lawsuit against De- tive political analyst on MSNBC. loads of its 20-plus business court cases pending, despite also keep- shops at The Village of Rochester Hills, troit-based Quicken Loans Inc. will J ieves targeted two Detroit non- judges statewide, local attorneys ing a separate criminal and non- The Mall at Partridge Creek in Clinton move to the mortgage lender's pro t organizations, as cash and of- suspect, after new case data sug- business civil docket comparable Township and Birchwood Mall near hometown, a federal judge ruled af- ce equipment were reported stolen gested about a third of all ear- with many of the court's 17 other Port Huron that oer specialty prod- ter nding that the Washington, during two separate break-ins at the marked business court matters fall circuit judges. ucts and gifts from Michigan arti- D.C., connection to Quicken’s prac- Capuchin Soup Kitchen, and thieves to just two judges in Oakland So why so much concentration sans. Carson’s is part of Bon-Ton tices was too “insubstantial” to keep hit three Habitat for Humanity homes County. in one court? Stores Inc., headquartered in York, the case there. in Eastpointe. e Oakland County Business Some of that was to be expected, Pa., and Milwaukee. J Broder & Sachse Real Estate Ser- J Tickets for semi-pro soccer’s De- Court Advisory Committee, a col- attorneys on the panel said, since JJMusical instrument store Third vices Inc. in Birmingham is ending troit City Football Club will go on sale lection of local plainti and de- Oakland has been home to more Wave Music in Midtown Detroit plans most of its third-party property man- Nov. 25, with tiered season pass op- fense attorneys in commercial liti- Michigan business incorporations to celebrate with a series of agement contracts to concentrate on tions to be oered for the rst time. gation advising Oakland Circuit than any other county for decades, grand-opening events this week at property development. It will con- J e Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak has Judges James Alexander and Wendy and hosts ve of the state’s 18 For- 4625 Second Ave. tinue to manage its own properties. opened a new skating rink in front of Potts, discussed those ndings on tune 500 companies, despite being JJAfter closing for two weeks this J Bloom eld Hills-based Mackinac the frozen façade of the new Polk case distribution at a regular meet- only its second-largest county by month, Always Brewing Detroit in Partners, a turnaround management Penguin Conservation Center. e ing this week in Pontiac. total population. northwest Detroit reopened with a and restructuring rm, opened an zoo said the 1,548-square-foot rink is A report generated for the com- Judge Alexander said the local new owner. Cody Williams bought the oce in Boston. open 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. daily through mittee with help from the Circuit court case data reviewed by the café for $17,500. February, weather permitting. Court administrator’s oce found committee this week could be pre- JJSouth Korean company Samsung OTHER NEWS J Metro Detroit home sale prices that more than 950 cases were as- sented to the State Court Adminis- Electronics Co. is spending $8 billion J e Detroit Land Bank Authority rose by 9 percent in October from signed to the county business court trative Oce, which is expected to to move into a burgeoning market turned over documents to federal the year before, said data from Farm- for Potts and Alexander in 2015. In review the comparative workloads for automotive technology by buying agents at its oces as part of an on- ington Hills-based Realcomp Ltd. II. addition, lings received through and need for new resources across Harman International Industries Inc., going investigation into increases in e four-county region had 5,236 Oct. 31 suggest the county is on its 16 business courts sometime whose North American automotive demolition costs for vacant proper- home and condo sales, a 2.7 percent pace for about 975 business court next year. headquarters is in Novi, Bloomberg ties and bidding practices for demo- dip from October 2015, yet median reported. lition contractors. sale prices rose from $150,000 to $163,500 in that period. Lauer promotes Shinola items for charity J e state of Michigan said it will start processing Detroit city business Shinola/Detroit LLC’s Matt Lauer And the journals, agendas and no- tax returns for the rst time in Janu- collection is apparently a hit. tecards have sold out. (Shinola ex- ary, as the partnership between the Lauer, co-host of the “Today” pects to restock in December.) city and the Michigan Department of show on NBC, is promoting a bun- Each item is inscribed with the Treasury that began last year with in- dle of Shinola products that will number 20 to commemorate his dividual income tax returns will ex- bene t the Detroit Children’s Fund upcoming 20th anniversary with tend to business returns. and, ultimately, Detroit Edison Pub- the show and part of the Today’s lic School Academy. Original series of products chosen OBITUARIES Lauer handpicked the collection by show anchors to bene t the PARC J David Adamany, president of of Shinola products, which in- charities of their choice. Parc, the latest addition to downtown Detroit's dining scene, is set to open this Wayne State University from 1982 to cludes a boxed card set for hand- e collection is available at Shi- week at Campus Martius Park. The former Fountain Bistro location at 800 1997 and an appointed turnaround written notes, a 12-month planner, nola’s website (www.shinola.com) Woodward Ave. has been expanded by 1,400 square feet, and its wall of windows CEO to Detroit Public Schools in paperback journals, a leather pass- and NBC Universal’s online store takes advantage of downtown Detroit views. 1999-2000, died Nov. 10. He was 80. port wallet and nylon watch straps. (www.nbcuniversalstore.com). Metro Detroit: STEP UP & GIVE!

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