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terest it generates — about $164,000 Have you herd? Hunting is the Bequest made by in the first year — to attract two new near and dear to businesses researchers. Both of those re- eye researcher searchers will hold V. Everett Kin- sey Endowed Professorships. “(Kinsey Stare) just really wanted Minority small biz gets lift Kinsey’s widow the institute to prosper, be strong in from $100M loan fund the future, and that’s what we hope road? BY KIRK PINHO to do with this award,” said Frank CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Giblin, professor A new Macomb movie of biomedical sci- When Irene Kinsey Stare died at ences at OU and complex? Emagine that Bus rapid transit study draws age 100 in March 2013, Oakland Uni- the institute’s diversity already knew she was donat- rector for the last ing just over $1 million to its Eye Re- decade. concerns over downtown search Institute, which her first In 2004, she Inside husband, renowned eye researcher pledged a stops, off-Woodward loop V. Everett Kinsey, co-founded in $525,000 planned First job for 1968. gift to establish But what OU didn’t know was that the endowed new Wayne BY BILL SHEA Giblin CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Kinsey Stare changed her will two professorship. exec Evans: months before her death to increase She pledged another $500,000 two Build trust, ed flags are being raised by transit insid- the gift to nearly $3.7 million — mak- months before her death. ers over aspects of a new study that outing her the single-largest donor in However, OU was kept in the the institute’s 46-year history. dark about the rest of the gift, the Page 6 lines a proposed rapid transit bus service R The scope of the gift also opens money for which came from the that would stretch the entire 27 miles of Wood- the door to a more substantial in- Kinseys’ OU and Wayne State Uni- This Just In ward Avenue from downtown Detroit to Pontiac. vestment in new eye research at OU. versity retirement savings, interest Specifically, the concerns are focused on The OU institute, which conducts on which had been compounding Kingsley Inn drops Radisson the report’s recommendation of just two down- research on various ophthalmic dis- for decades, said Giblin. It wasn’t until six months later town Detroit stops — the Rosa Parks Transit eases in its efforts to prevent blind- affiliation, begins renovations ness and vision loss, will invest that Center and Grand Circus Park — and the deci- The Radisson Kingsley Inn in money and use 4.5 percent of the in- See OU, Page 36 Bloomfield Hills is ending its sion to split the line into a loop off of Wood- decade-long affiliation with ward south of Grand Boulevard using Cass Av- Carlson Rezidor’s Radisson enue and John R Street. brand to return to an indepen- “Those stops are not that close to where the COOLEST PLACES TO WORK IN MICHIGAN dent Kingsley Inn banner. major employment centers are,” said Scott An- Kingsley Ventures LLC, which was registered to John Frasco, derson, a longtime transit researcher who sold the hotel to Birmingham- spent more than 25 years in the University of De- based real estate company The troit Mercy’s College of Engineering and Science. Cool places Elia Group in June for an “I don’t imagine that’s going to be a pleasant undisclosed amount. The flag walking option for a lot of people.” change was set to take effect Saturday. If the bus rapid transit stops are not within Elia contracted Troy-based a short walking distance of people’s jobs, Hotel Investment Services Inc. as worth noting they’ll forgo the service and drive, he said. The the new management compa- preferred option in the study has the two stops ny. rom generous time off to happy hour up to a half mile from major employers. A multimillion-dollar reno- outings, employers who understand vation at the 150-room hotel is the value of a dedicated workforce show underway. As part of that, the ISTOCK PHOTO See Bus, Page 34 F appreciation. Employers that went the extra mile have hotel has opened the new Nosh & Rye Deli and a fitness center The proposed earned the title of Crain’s Cool Places to Work. For many, it and installed new high-speed route for a boils down to flexibility and empowering employees – along regional bus rapid Internet, lighting and carpet- with an occasional break for a manicure or a visit to the ing. transit system Additional renovations to along Woodward margarita machine. This package, researched by Best Com- Avenue has only the building, lobby, restau- two stops in panies Group, gathered data from employees. rant, lounge and guest rooms downtown Also see crainsdetroit.com/coolplaces are planned, the hotel said in Detroit. One is the a news release. Rosa Parks SECTION BEGINS ON PAGE 11 — Sherri Welch Transit Center. WIKIPEDIA

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MICHIGAN BRIEFS Southfield developer seeks to 200,000 gallons of beer each year. Ⅲ Grand Rapids-based 616 Devel- save Holland mall by killing mall In latest moves, Dow shows it gets the (Third) Point opment LLC unveiled a $22 million Southfield-based Versa Develop- project in the city’s downtown that ment wants Bingham Farms-based It was a busy week for Midland-based Dow Chemi- Partly in response to Third Point’s call for greater it calls Lofts on Monroe, MiBiz re- Rogvoy Architects, the architect be- cal Co., under pressure from investor Third Point LLC transparency, Dow is changing how it reports reported. The renovation of the for- hind the successful “de-malling” of to boost profitability. sults from its business segments, in part to provide mer Sackner Products furniture Centerpointe Mall in Grand Rapids, First, Dow agreed to sell Buffalo Grove, Ill.-based easier comparisons with other companies. factory will feature 85 market-rate to design a similar transformation Angus Chemical Co., which makes products used in In still more news involving Dow, Corning Inc., its apartments and 40,000 square feet for the struggling Westshore Mall paints and metalworking, for $1.22 billion to the San partner in a 71-year-old silicone venture that’s on of ground-floor retail. in Holland Township, MLive.com Francisco-based private equity firm Golden Gate Cap- pace for $6 billion of annual sales, wants to sell its Ⅲ Kentwood-based Ranir, now the reported. ital Corp. half of the business. John Roberts, an analyst at UBS largest North American supplier of Greg Erne, a partner in Versa, Next, Chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris in- Securities LLC, thinks Dow is trying to buy Dow store-brand oral care products, has said the shopping center along U.S. creased his goal for divesting low-margin units to a Corning. acquired Oralys Dental of France, 31 will get a new name, The Shops at range of $7 billion to $8.5 billion by mid-2016, $2.5 bil- Finally, also under pressure from Third Point, Dow MLive.com reported. Terms of the Westshore, along with a slimmed- lion more than previously targeted, partly by reduc- raised its dividend back to pre-financial crisis levels deal were not disclosed. down look. The mall will shrink by ing stakes in two Kuwaiti joint ventures. New York of 2008 and announced more share buybacks. The Ⅲ The Joint-religious Organizing 25 percent. 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years ago, the amount of money that hunters spend in the From apps to ads, spending on hunting state has skyrocketed. In Michigan, hunting-related spending on everything yields a bountiful harvest in Michigan from firearms to clothing to hotel rooms increased from $915.9 million in 2006 to $2.3 billion in 2011, according to BY BILL SHEA CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS the most recent five-year federal hunting and fishing economy survey. That’s a 151 percent t wasn’t just shotguns and rifles that hundreds of thou- rate of growth. The ties that bind a book sands of hunters began lugging into the wilderness on In recent years, there has been an ex- Saturday for the start of Michigan’s two-week firearms plosion of marketing aimed at the business, and a family, Page 4 Ideer season. nearly 14 million people who hunt Some of them also bought new tools: mobile devices and in the U.S. — they spend nearly $40 apps to help find and manage their deer hunt, and bottles of billion — and there are new products Company index energy drink shots to help stay awake until the deer show up. and technologies aimed at hunters. These companies have significant mention in this Data shows that while there are fewer people hunting deer The Michigan Department of Natural week’s Crain’s Detroit Business: in Michigan than there were 10 Achatz Handmade Pie ...... 30 Resources doesn’t conduct its own Advanced Disposal ...... 35 economic impact analysis of hunt- Arrow Strategies ...... 18 Autism Alliance of Michigan ...... 26 ing, but officials said they expect Barton Malow ...... 37 in-state hunter spending to Beaumont Health ...... 23 match or exceed the federal data Brogan & Partners ...... 20 CEC Controls ...... 26 from three years ago. Carbon Media Group ...... 36 Center for Financial Planning ...... 21 See Deer, Page 36 Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation . 26 Clarity Communication Advisors ...... 21 Detroit Financial Review Commission ...... 10 Detroit Manufacturing Systems ...... 37 Detroit Medical Center ...... 23 Detroit Police Officers Association ...... 10 DigitasLBi ...... 13 Donigan McLogan Consultants ...... 34 Double Action Indoor Shooting Center and Gun Shop 36 Emagine Entertainment ...... 3 Eye Research Institute ...... 1 Faurecia ...... 37 FranNet ...... 30 Gensler ...... 11, 13 Gongos ...... 11, 16 Greenleaf Trust ...... 15 ISTOCK PHOTO Handmade Pie ...... 30 Henry Ford Health System ...... 23 IMG Book Bindery ...... 5 Theaters planned Innovation Ventures ...... 36 for Macomb McGraw Wentworth ...... 17 County and McLaren Physician Partners ...... 19 Minority-owned small biz Meridian Health Plan ...... 27 Birmingham will give Emagine Michigan Dept. of Insurance and Financial Services . 26 Entertainment Michigan Department of Natural Resources ...... 3 eight in Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council . 3, 37 gets lift with $100M fund Michigan. Minority Business Access Fund ...... 3 STUDIO 3 DESIGN INC MJR Theatres ...... 33 National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Mich. Chapter . . 12 BY DUSTIN WALSH vate equity Nemeth Law ...... 10 Oakland University ...... 1 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS firms. Green said Emagine to open theaters Preh ...... 20 Minority-owned businesses in the loans are de- Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan . 34 Reliance One ...... 18 Southeast Michigan are getting a signed to make Rizzo Environmental Services ...... 35 financing boost from a new $100 minority-owned St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor ...... 23 million fund by the Michigan Mi- firms competi- in Macomb, B’ham by spring Southeast Michigan Council of Governments . . . . . 34 nority Supplier Development Council. tive on large Strand Theatre ...... 31 BY SHERRI WELCH dent and CEO of Troy-based Proc- Louis Green, the outgoing pres- projects, which Tessmer Book Bindery ...... 4 tor Financial Inc. ident and CEO of the Detroit- is something CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Transportation Riders United ...... 34 Both sites will look to take ad- based organization, announced Green they can’t do Warner Norcross & Judd ...... 11, 14 Emagine Entertainment Inc. plans vantage of demand for local movie the fund last week. The Minority without liquidi- Weber Shandwick ...... 15 to open its first theater in Ma- theaters, he said. And the Birm- West Construction Services ...... 31 Business Access Fund is designed ty. comb County before year’s end. ingham theater, downtown on Old to provide funding to small- and RUSH TO HIRE “The biggest And by next spring, it plans to Woodward Avenue, will include a medium-sized businesses by pro- issue of minori- Detroit open another in Birmingham’s new subscriber model to give Department index viding capital not readily avail- Manufacturing ty businesses is Palladium complex. members — customers who buy able by traditional banks. Systems has access to capi- BANKRUPTCIES ...... 7 The theaters, Emagine’s sev- annual memberships, patrons of Experts say access to capital re- 200 assembly tal,” Green told enth and eighth in the state, are jobs to fill, white-tablecloth restaurants in BUSINESS DIARY ...... 32 mains the biggest hurdle to the reporters at the expected to add $10 million to the Page 37 the city or guests of the Townsend CALENDAR ...... 32 success of minority-owned busi- announcement chain’s $35 million in annual rev- Hotel — exclusive dibs on the limit- CLASSIFIED ADS ...... 33 nesses, nationally and locally, but at the MMSDC enue in the coming year, co- ed number of seats. funds like the one from the MMS- headquarters in Detroit, along- founder and Chairman Paul CRAIN’S LIST ...... 29 DC are pushing them to compete. side Mayor Mike Duggan. “These Glantz said. KEITH CRAIN...... 8 The fund will allocate financing are problems worth solving.” “I believe movie-going is re- Macomb plans MARY KRAMER ...... 8 at or below bank rates to small- to The fund will give priority to lo- turning to its roots as neighbor- Troy-based Emagine current- OPINION ...... 8 midsized businesses — from cal firms working on major civil hood retail,” in contrast to the ly operates Emagine theaters in OTHER VOICES ...... 9 $100,000 to $25 million per transac- multiplex theaters within malls, PEOPLE ...... 32 tion — from four anonymous pri- See Fund, Page 37 said Glantz, 57, who is also presi- See Emagine, Page 33 RUMBLINGS ...... 38 What’s new on the menu? WEEK ON THE WEB ...... 38 THIS WEEK @ Catch up on the latest news about restaurants and the people who cook there, along with some spirited talk WWW.CRAINSDETROIT.COM about a Detroit distillery, crainsdetroit.com/punchbowl.

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Michigan’s PHOTOS/DAVID HALL Jim Tessmer, 71, (right) is teaching his daughter, Colleen Dickey, the family trade of book binding in the store Tessmer’s Premier grandfather opened in 1929. Top photo: Tessmer pages through a customer’s family Bible to be re-bound. Retained Executive Next generation learns vanishing craft of book binding Search Firm BY SHERRI WELCH carts around the small shop, cir- CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS cling the antique presses, cutter Over 100 years It’s pretty much a and letter stamping machine — n a small brick building tucked and running into them every now of combined away in Mt. Clemens, Jim Tess- “ experience. break-even thing; and then. Imer looks over the shoulder of Herman Tessmer died in 1946 LLC his eldest daughter, Colleen Dick- that is all I shoot for. when Jim was just 3 or 4 years old, ey, at the 1800s Bible she holds, ex- International Executive Search leaving the operation of the busi- amining its flaking cover and bro- ness to his dad’s brother Cyril and Tel: +1.248.645.1551 • www.huntergroup.com Just to come in here ken spine. sister Eunice. They ran the place He smiles as he points and talks and work with the during the 1950s and 1960s. And about what they’ll need to do to when his dad retired in the mid- to bring the book back to life. old stuff is late 1960s, he came back and Tessmer, 71, is teaching his worked at the little company with daughter a dying art. enough. them. Over the past year, he’s shown ” Cyril died a few years later, and her each step in hand-binding a Jim Tessmer, Tessmer Book Bindery Melvin and Eunice continued to book, just as his father taught him operate the business. She died in and his grandfather taught his fa- “Just to come in here and work 1999, five years before Jim’s dad. ther. with this old stuff is enough.” Those skills — and companies like Tessmer Book Bindery — are Passing on the trade harder to find these days, industry A second home Melvin had begun to teach his sources say. Some of Tessmer’s earliest mem- son how to glue the backs of book Yet, there is demand from indi- ories took place in the little shop pages after they’d been grouped to- viduals, private clubs and com- his grandfather Herman — a jour- gether, cut the edge as needed and mercial and governmental clients neyman bookbinder — opened in use a drill press to drill holes in for the skills, they say. 1929 with Tessmer’s father, the spines of the pages so they Tessmer Book Bindery repairs Melvin, in a shop built by one of could be sewn together. Bibles and other old books and his uncles. The cardboard cover and cover binds genealogy reports for indi- The business couldn’t support a material would be cut to size and viduals. It also does work for the whole family, Tessmer said. So his glued before gold stamping was Roseville Masons, Hour Detroit Maga- father, who’d married his mother done on the cover and it was glued zine, the Consulate of Mexico in De- in 1939, went to work for the trade to the book — leaving the spine troit and the Detroit Athletic Club. binderies in downtown Detroit. unglued at the end of the book so it But Tessmer has never sought to But Melvin Tessmer would stop could open, Tessmer said. grow the business. by the family bindery often to lend The work couldn’t have been In a good year, the company a hand. And he’d take his children more different than the career might gross $20,000 and net a few with him. Tessmer had made for himself in thousand dollars, he said. Other The large iron wheel on one of the information technology indus- years, he has to “put a little in.” the antique presses was just per- try. He’d worked with Honeywell In- “It’s pretty much a break-even fect for “driving” around, Jim ternational Inc. for about 30 years, thing; that is all I shoot for,” Tess- Tessmer said. He and his brother mer said. also spent countless hours riding See Next Page 20141117-NEWS--0004,0005-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 1:25 PM Page 2

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From Previous Page tion systems from Western Michi- president of the Mid-Michi- gan University. She worked at EDS gan Antiquarian Book Deal- fixing mainframe computer sys- Corp. for seven years before leav- ers Association. tems at first and later moving into ing to raise her two children. “It is a craft, and it’s not network wiring and repairs. Later, “My hobby has always been really being taught that he worked with small contracting scrapbooking, so it fit right in with much anymore.” companies like the former Sequoia what my interests are,” Dickey Some book binders are Diversified Products Inc. in Auburn said. “It’s just a family business we not advertising or not tak- Hills. don’t want to see go away.” ing new business because “I’d always come in on Satur- As she works with her father, they can’t keep up with days with dad — it was kind of a she’s finding demand, he said. That de- tradition,” she’s increas- mand is largely coming Tessmer said. ingly interested from baby boomers look- “We’d come in, to learn the ing to preserve family putz around family history. Bibles, books from their and eat some As she tidies up childhoods and geograph- lunch at the around the old ical books with county Beefcarver’s shop, she finds property records that down the road.” gifts from the showed family owner- Right up un- past, like an or- ship. til a month be- nate tea kettle Among the few book fore he died at of unknown ori- binders in the area is Do- age 94, Melvin gin and a lores Beveridge, owner of was in the shop, prayer book her IMG Book Bindery in St. his son said. aunt and uncle Clair Shores. Her brother Don Type blocks (above) Tessmer uses had made for leased space from Tessmer’s father the same equip- and a type cutter (left) themselves. and learned the trade from him be- are among the tools ment his father Tessmer said fore striking out on his own. He used at Tessmer Book and grandfa- his daughter taught her the trade before retir- Bindery in a declining ther used: a has gotten quite ing 12 years ago. craft that has fewer 1923 typesetter good at intri- Beveridge, 69, now operates IMG practitioners but — or “gold cate gold stamp- from her home and garage to earn remains in demand. stamper,” as he ing on books. a supplemental income and has calls it — and a “Plus she’s plenty of customers to keep her 7-foot press Jim Tessmer runs his book bindery from been putting busy, despite the fact that books used originally his cluttered workbench. the books to- are being supplanted by Kindles, to compress gether and she said. large books but drilling. She’s pretty much got the “I make a profit at year’s end. It now used as a platform upon whole thing,” he said. helps pay the bills for me,” she which smaller weights are placed “I know my dad would be de- said. “If I were younger and want- on smaller books. lighted.” ed to expand, I’m sure it would He also uses a 1914 Oswego cut- There are fewer and fewer book make a lot more money.” ter with a foot pedal to lower the binders in Michigan and the U.S., Sherri Welch: (313) 446-1694, blade onto thick stacks of pages or said Ray Walsh, owner of the Curi- [email protected]. Twitter: cardboard to be cut for book cov- ous Book Shop in East Lansing and @sherriwelch ers. “You know it’s up to speed when it starts rattling,” Tessmer said. So far he hasn’t had issues finding spare parts, he said, nodding toward the Oswego cutter, and adding that he’s heard someone at The Henry Ford still can replace worn leather belts like the ones the machine uses. Cutting the pages or cardboard for book covers is all part of a sequence of putting a book together and binding it, Dickey said. It’s a sequence you repeat exactly the same way each time “because that’s how grandpa said to do it,” she said, smiling at her father. ‘We’re stubborn’ The company has continuously operated since it was founded, not Did you kknow?? always as a booming business, but continuous, Dickey said. The Health Care industry drives 1/6 of the U.S. economy. How has it survived for 85 years? ® “We’re stubborn,” Tessmer said simply. TCF Bank in Michigan has lent over $100 million to A year ago, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. health care related businesses. Just as he came to the shop to help his father and spend time with him, his eldest daughter be- Did you know that TCF Bank®: gan working next to him on the gold stamping for Mexican Con- s Has health care banking experts on its team? sulate volumes and helping un- s bind and rebind the DAC’s mem- Is committed to growing its loan portfolio in the health care segment? ber newsletters so they could be s Finances medical practices? scanned electronically by another company. s Finances long term care projects? (The issues date back to the s Finances the senior-living industry? 1920s, Tessmer said. So far, he’s made it through the 1970s newsletters, with his daughter’s assistance.) To learn more, contact: “It’s an addicting business,” Janet Pasco at 248-740-1622 or [email protected] said Dickey, 48, who holds a master’s degree in computer engineering from Oakland University and a bachelor’s in computer informa- ©2012 TCF National Bank. 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Page 6 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS November 17, 2014 Evans’ first priority as Wayne executive: Build public trust Warren Evans, the for- new county jail down- of business come Jan. 1? The next critical challenge is how the initial decision was made mer Detroit police chief town and the overseeing The county’s finances are really what to do with the unfinished jail to build it in the first place. But and Wayne County sher- of a county government the first order of business. But in project. Obviously that ties into since that’s water over the dam, I’m iff, will begin his new job of which the public is order to be successful with respect the financial structure, but it not going to make another decision as county executive on suspicious after several to the finances, we have to be far needs to get done, wherever it’s on that until it can be supported. Jan. 1 after easily handing former Ficano aides have more transparent than has been done at. In an ideal world, it gets his Republican challenger been convicted of or the case in the past. Building pub- done with the least amount of addi- What are you expecting from the a loss in the Nov. 4 general pleaded guilty to bribery lic trust and confidence in the so- tional cost to the taxpayers, wher- business community in your adminis- election. or obstruction of justice. lutions is going to be important to ever that is, because that’s more tration? Evans, 65, will come A graduate of Madonna dig ourselves out of the financial than $100 million that has been I think all the way through the into office with a full plat- University, the University of hole, and it’s very significant. wasted so far. I would like not to term, Detroit is starting to re- ter of challenges on his Detroit Mercy and the De- That’s the first order of business. waste anymore. bound and hopefully the county desk as he replaces Robert Q&A troit College of Law, Evans Transparency with which we oper- I’m open to just about anything will, too. Spurring economic Ficano. spoke with Crain’s re- ate will be critical to that. (regarding the jail), but part of the growth will be big to collecting tax- Those include a dis- Warren Evans, porter Kirk Pinho last problem with that is that the num- es from that tax base. tressed budget, a tumul- executive-elect week. What are the main challenges you bers have not been readily avail- Public-private partnerships can tuous project to build a What are your first orders foresee in your first months in office? able, which leads me to question be explored more than they have in the past. Those are the things that can be critically important. We need to work closely together because, at the end of the day, there are far more win-wins with our ability to work together than conflicts. Let’s get done what needs to be done now. I’m open and have been to the brightest minds I can find in business and government, but we are trying to make “CAN DTE ENERGY good, sound decisions with good, sound minds. That’s a function of the business of government, and the community.

HELP MY BUSINESS Talk about how you will work with Wayne County EDGE to bring more economic development. I’m not sure Wayne County SAVE MONEY?” EDGE will even be in play as it has been envisioned for the last number of years. That’s still something that DTE Energy wants to help your business manage your energy usage to save money. We we’re deciding, but my goal is not to offer all kinds of energy efficiency information and tools, plus easy tips to help you be more look for big, county projects to get us tied up in, but to look more at efficient. For instance, you’ll cut heating and cooling costs by simply adding insulation what local communities are doing where there isn’t any, especially along piping and ductwork. Install a programmable in economic development and being supportive of those. We might be thermostat to automatically lower heating and raise air conditioning temperatures during able to collaborate and make some off hours. Seal doors and windows to prevent air leaks. You’ll find even more ways to save suggestions on how that development in our 43 communities pulls using our Interactive Business tool. And you can find a certified contractor with our Energy together and ties together better than it has historically. Efficiency Directory. It’s easy. Just go to dteenergy.com/savenow and start saving today. We plan to have a full implemen- tation plan as to where we are going with the county within the first hundred days. We are still digesting data. We are starting with the transition, which has been cooperative with the administration. How deep the (budget) hole is that we are in is critical to that. Then we will be talking with the communities on what is vital and important to them.

What type of people can we expect short-listed for appointments to key posts in your administration? You’re going to see a diverse group of people, people with significant expertise in the areas that they are in and people in both government and business that the public can be comfortable are very confident and competent people. Hopefully, we bring others on board with us that see we are serious about improving conditions in Wayne County. Sure, there will be holdovers (from the Ficano administration). I do not believe in throwing the baby out with the bathwater. That is pretty much what my predeces- sor did when he came into the office. I certainly won’t punish them for being part of another adminis- Start saving today, visit: ration. Some people will stay and go. We’ll do a lot of interviewing dteenergy.com/savenow and vetting inside and outside of the administration, and that process has begun.

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SBA approves $61 million for flood loans FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM A federal agency has approved The agency offers loan rates as low Crain’s Detroit Business has joined Instagram. If more than $61 million in disaster as 4 percent for businesses, 2.6 per- you’re a social media maven, follow us. assistance loans for Michigan cent for private nonprofits and 2.1 We’ve added the photo-sharing channel to our stable businesses and residents affected percent for individuals. of social identities, with plans to showcase images by severe August flooding. Macomb, Oakland and Wayne from our print and online publications as well as everyday scenes from across metro Detroit — from The U.S. Small Business Administra- counties were hit hardest by the se- the arrival of Detroit’s Christmas tree to artsy views tion announced last week that it had vere August storm and flooding. of city landmarks, such as Kresge Court and Eastern approved about 2,900 disaster loans. President Barack Obama signed a Market. Residents and businesses can apply disaster declaration for Michigan in Happy photo filtering! Here’s the rest of our social Do you have any favorite Detroit-area Instagrammers? channels: Facebook for the loans until Nov. 24. September at the request of Gov. Tell us about them. (www.facebook.com/CrainsDetroit), Twitter The SBA Michigan district di- Rick Snyder. The cost to repair the Plus, each week on CrainsDetroit.com, we’ll give a (@crainsdetroit) and LinkedIn (search Crain’s Detroit rector said the low-rate loans will damage is estimated at more than shoutout to some of our favorite images that show up Business). You can follow us and tag us across all help businesses and families re- $1.1 billion. in our Instagram feed. these channels. cover from damages and losses. The Associated Press

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You’ve said you’ll appoint a small- business ombudsman to your administration. What will be his or her specific tasks, and what type of people will be looked at to fill that role? We want people with strong administrative and business back- grounds for that spot. While we haven’t developed and assigned all the tasks, they will report directly to me outside the normal chain of command to keep me abreast of business concerns, needs and issues … so we can be helpful when we need to be and more responsive on things like health permits and environmental issues. And any others that are required for businesses to start or continue. I’ve heard plenty of war stories from businesses and communities, and I don’t want to see that happen. Mayor Mike Duggan endorsed you early in the campaign. What type of initiatives do you see the two of you working on? I think there will be lots. I think one will be health. I think public safety. I think economic development and any number of issues. We’ve known each other for the better part of 25 years. The other thing is that he was prosecutor and he understands public safety better than Health Care Experience most. I think there is significant leverage there to improve the condition of public safety in Wayne ® County. One of the impediments to In Your Corner. business growth is that people have to feel safe. If they feel safe, they are far more apt to do more things. You Ŷ Focused on health care law for systems, can’t just create a business and physicians and payors in all market segments. leave it to the vagaries. Ŷ Third party reimbursement, public and What else should the business community know? private health care provider fi nancing, I think what businesses can ex- and commercialization of physician pect is a listening ear, a regular listening ear to the concerns that im- inventions and ideas. pact business — and understand that we will have the management skills to put a system in place to deal with any problems. It’s not my goal just to manage county government for four years; it’s my goal to get things accomplished. I think it’s about being proactive, and that’s the kind of thing that business will be comfortable with and happy about. BANKRUPTCIES The following business filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Detroit Nov. 8-Nov. 14. Under Chapter 11, a First Tier Ranking company files for reorganization. in Health Care Law Ⅲ SAM Controls LLC, 24832 Ro-

mano, Warren. Assets $176,360, lia- Ŷ Metro Detroit Ŷ Grand Rapids Ŷ Kalamazoo Ŷ Grand Haven Ŷ Lansing Contact Scott Alfree at [email protected] bilities $453,620 — Chad Halcom 20141117-NEWS--0008-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 6:07 PM Page 1

Page 8 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS November 17, 2014 OPINION MARY KRAMER Share events on exec calendar House should follow On Saturday, you Show’s Charity Pre- Dinner at Cobo Center honored could help Walsh Col- view (Jan. 16), to Mercy more than 100 volunteers and lege honor business lu- Education Project’s big donors from area nonprofits. Two minaries like Lear Corp. fundraiser (April 16), to of them happened to have the same CEO Matt Simoncini at Sunset at the Zoo (June first names: Eugene Applebaum Senate on gas tax its annual leadership 12). and Eugene Driker. Applebaum dinner at the MGM Crain’s has revived has used the wealth generated by a oments after the Michigan Senate voted last week to Grand Detroit. Or you this common, digital chain of retail drug stores for phil- double the state gasoline tax over four years, “talk ra- could join the Michigan calendar to serve as a anthropy, including major gifts to clearinghouse for non- Beaumont Hospitals and Wayne dio” came alive with critics of the move. Chronicle as it salutes M another set of leaders in- profits planning events State University. Lawmakers should stay the course; taxing at the wholesale cluding retired General and as a tool for all of Driker, who was honored with level — instead of by the gallon at the pump — will help gener- Motors executive Roy us to use to plan our his wife, Elaine, is an attorney and ate between $750 million and $1.5 billion more a year for roads Roberts. Or you could own personal calen- civic leader who’s been a member and transportation, depending on gas prices. join recording artist KEM at Danc- dars months in advance. of Wayne State’s board and who re- But it only works if nonprofits cently served as a mediator on the The plan would tax gasoline and diesel at 9.5 percent of the ing with Detroit Stars at a benefit for the South Oakland Shelter at the give us their details. You can sub- Detroit bankruptcy case. wholesale price, moving up to 15.5 percent by 2018. Townsend Hotel. mit online: crainsdetroit.com/sec- Both men met in seventh grade Wonder why the roads seem to have crumbled? The cur- To plan ahead, those events — tion/eventsadd. We list charity at Durfee school in Detroit. They rent 19-cents-per-gallon tax at the pump has generated fewer and more than 350 others — could events with a ticket price of at eventually learned that their fa- thers — Joseph Applebaum and dollars because vehicles are more efficient and many are dri- be found on our digital Crain’s Ex- least $75 and other significant business and civic events. Charles Driker — emigrated to the ving less. Plus, gas prices have dropped. ecutive Calendar for 2014. Now it’s time to fill the dates for And if you are interested in U.S. from the same city in Ukraine The Senate vote was bipartisan. Now it’s up to the Republi- 2015 and beyond. We have more sponsoring periodic printed sup- — Zhitomir, west of Kiev. can-led House to vote after Thanksgiving during its “lame- than 100 black-tie and executive- plements with quarterly or year- Now that is a coincidence. duck” session. calendar events on the books for ahead listings of events, contact Mary Kramer is publisher of Gov. Rick Snyder has been seeking significant funding next year, from the Tigers Open- Associate Publisher Marla Wise at Crain's Detroit Business. Catch her take on business news at 6:10 a.m. boosts for four years. Let’s hope the lame-ducks in the House ing Day (April 6, Minnesota [email protected]. Twins) and the Detroit Regional Mondays on the Paul W. Smith show have the moxie to get this through. Chamber’s Mackinac Policy Con- on WJR AM 760 and in her blog at ference (May 26-29) to the North Only in America www.crainsdetroit.com/kramer. ‘Cool’ culture counts American International Auto Last week’s Philanthropy Day E-mail her at [email protected]. A company’s culture counts. And when you’re trying to compete for talent, the culture counts a lot. Our “Cool Places to Work” companies in this week’s special feature, starting on TALK ON WEB Page 11, offer innovative ideas to all employers on what makes a difference when it comes to attracting and keeping the best From www.crainsdetroit.com talent. And who’s the judge of what works best? In this ranking, Re: Michigan Senate votes to double by the Best Companies Group of Harrisburg, Pa., it’s the em- gasoline tax; next stop is House ployees themselves. If we need more for roads, this is Congratulations to all 75 companies, agencies and nonprof- the smartest way to do it. Gas prices its that earned the “badge” of “cool.” fluctuate so much anyway that I wonder if we’ll notice. Not to mention the fact that the people who Fund timely aid for minority biz use the roads the most will pay the most. A very fair tax in that way. Given its rich racial and ethnic mix, Detroit and its sub- MikeInMI urbs should be home to some of the fastest-growing minority- owned businesses in the country. Gov. Rick Snyder attempts to solve all problems with additional It has been and still is. taxes. It only took a couple of days But it could use more. A new $100 million fund announced this time. Now we will be paying last week can help by offering capital to small and medium-sized higher taxes and still be driving over businesses that can’t get the cash from traditional bank loans. potholes. Carolyn Mazurkiewicz stores there, unless you want to wishing them the best and plan to As Dustin Walsh reports on Page 3, startups may not apply, shop at the pawn shop, or the hospi- support this. We’re the center of Oak- but other companies that can show a track record — and cus- tal gift shop. land County with architectural tomers — may be helped by the fund. It’s especially timely to Re: Strand Theatre aims to open William Lewton gems and finally some momentum. help the minority enterprises working on such major construc- Attract what diners? There is The city has its problems, but I’d only a coney island downtown. At- Those of us who work to help rather contribute to the solutions. tion projects at M-1 Rail and the new Detroit Red Wings arena. tract what shoppers? There are no make the city a better place are RSVP KEITH CRAIN: Now it’s time for all of us to get to work We need to build some big stat- heavy lifting begins. We more attuned to sur- the end game. As we attract more thousand small companies coming ues to thank quite a few folks who still have the same pop- vival and didn’t worry jobs, we’ll increase our tax rev- here and expanding here. have led us through the bankrupt- ulation with the same too much about what enues, lower our dependency on The ideas are easy; the execu- cy in Detroit. Our governor was demographics. might come later. welfare, and reduce crime. It is all tion is unbelievably difficult. Par- smart enough to hire Kevyn Orr as We still have too Well, later is now. part of the same game plan, but it ticularly when you realize that EM, and somehow we got the right much crime, too much Our number-one pri- has to be something that everyone every city in our country has the federal judges to oversee what blight, too much unem- ority for everyone has concentrates on at the same time. same objective. could have been a complete mess. ployment. We’ve got a to be jobs. We have to I happen to think that massive Our biggest challenge lies ahead. And kudos to our mayor, who has mayor who understands start putting our think- tax incentives — city, regional, We’ve gone through some very diffi- been a great executive during a what his job is, but it’s ing hats on and come up state and federal — are all some- cult times with lots of pain, but very difficult year. simply impossible to with some innovative, thing that could help attract jobs to we’ve once again survived. It’s almost over — and things wave a magic wand and out-of-the-box ideas to our city. We also need manufactur- Now we have to set aside the will not be back to normal. But find thousands of low- encourage expansion ing jobs for lower-skilled folks who past and look to the future. they will be without the bankrupt- skill jobs for the citizens of Detroit. and attraction. have been out of work forever. Financial incentives might have cy. We’ll still have some sort of Economic development was not There are plenty of distractions We need a couple of new auto- the best potential. But we have to oversight, which is a good thing. very high on our priority list for right now. But we have to keep our motive assembly plants, which is look at every idea. It’s the differ- But now, I would suggest, the the last few years. We were far heads down and not lose sight of pretty unlikely right now, or a ence between success and failure. 20141117-NEWS--0009-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 10:55 AM Page 1

November 17, 2014 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Page 9 OTHER VOICES: Detroit could learn from N.Y.’s rebound

The move by General as did the members of the political and financial responsibil- resulted in a total recovery of New Motors Co. of its Cadillac Legislature, which em- ity for Detroit’s survival. York City. But Detroit is still division from Detroit to powered the board. There Bankruptcy as a tool Detroit’s plan of adjustment struggling. Other than a reduction New York City is only the were shared concessions was constructed by the EM and of its long-term debt, nearly all of latest blow to the Motor by all stakeholders rather for the recovery of various outside consultants earn- the pre-bankruptcy problems of City as it concludes a con- than judicial fiats. ing, reportedly, at least $130 mil- Detroit will persist. tentious bankruptcy pro- The state also promul- troubled urban lion. A judicial mediation effort Bankruptcy as a tool for the re- ceeding. gated legislation that es- entities should be a led by five federal judges covery of troubled urban entities The results of the bank- tablished accounting, fi- achieved an amalgamation of liti- should be a last resort. Using it as ruptcy at best will be lim- nancial reporting and last resort. gation settlements, which is the a way of avoiding difficult and ited, while the hard work budgetary reforms. strength of the plan. However, the complex public policy decisions by Manfred Ohrenstein of re-engineering Detroit By contrast, in Michi- rebuilding of Detroit awaits eco- elected public officials is the as a viable urban center is just began such leadership and involve- nomic and fiscal policies best wrong approach. ginning. Ironically, the threat of ment has been absent. The gover- it, political accountability. The achieved through the political Manfred Ohrenstein was Democ- ratic minority leader of the New bankruptcy — which could have nor appointed an emergency EM quickly opted for a Chapter 9 and public policy process. manager of Detroit with near-dic- The political skills and farsight- York state Senate. He currently is been employed to bring the con- bankruptcy filing. Thereafter, the tatorial powers, thus overriding edness of the Carey administra- senior partner at the New York law tending political, civic, business governor and Legislature largely any elected leadership and, with distanced themselves from further tion and the New York Legislature firm of Ohrenstein & Brown LLP. and labor parties to the table — has been expended, leaving in its wake anger and frustration, which may make required fiscal, economic and public policy agreements more difficult to achieve. Once the pride of the American automobile industry, Detroit is now a symbol of decline in a nation struggling to rebuild a recovering economy. Structural change cannot be successfully accomplished by constant controversy and adversarial proceedings. It requires consensus, cooperation and compromise. Bankruptcy is not the appropriate vehicle to achieve this. That is why the manner in which the political leadership of Michigan has dealt with Detroit and several other urban areas is so perplexing. The state of New York in the 1970s proved that financial reform can be achieved more effectively. In 1975-77, New York City was in- solvent. When the city’s clearinghouse banks refused to extend further cash flow financing in the spring of 1975, the city, which had become addicted to debt, lost all financial credibility. Many advocated bankruptcy, a path that could have led to severe economic decline and the loss of the city’s pre-eminent role in international finance. Gov. Hugh Carey and the bipartisan leadership of the Legislature chose negotiation and conciliation rather than con- tention. Carey and the legislative leaders used the specter of bankruptcy as leverage. With the help of business and labor, they created effective and long-term institutions for the financial governance of the city that restored financial stability and credibility and led to sus- tained growth. There was firm po- the future of my business litical will by both political parties: a Democratic governor, a Democratic majority in the assembly and a Republican-Democratic coalition in the state Senate. The state created the New York City Emergency Financial Control Board, on which the governor served with the mayor, the state and city comptrollers and three Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network gubernatorial appointees, which have a wide range of comprehensive health plans to help gave the governor a voting majority. This board created a forum for you make the right choice for your business. compromise among business, labor, political and financial inter- GROUP HEALTH PLANS | DENTAL | VISION | bcbsm.com/employer ests and served effectively until its sunset long after the city fully re- covered. The composition of the Control Board provided political and electoral accountability, as each of its Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network are nonprofit corporations and independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. officials had to face the electorate, 20141117-NEWS--0010-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 12:11 PM Page 1

Page 10 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS November 17, 2014 Labor pacts could test city’s new financial review panel

BY CHAD HALCOM likely monthly and as-needed Tony Saunders, former director of putes, per the new public art. 2019 with the Detroit Police Officers CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS meetings to supervise Detroit’s Conway MacKenzie Inc.; Bill Martin, The New York State Financial Association, its largest police post-bankruptcy financial plans. real estate developer and former Control Board, created under the union, representing more than The newly formed Detroit Finan- Under Public Act 181 of 2014, the University of Michigan athletic direc- 1975 New York State Financial 1,700 member officers, corporals cial Review Commission may not state law signed by Snyder in July tor; and Stacy Fox, founder and Emergency Act during New York and community affairs police. have quite as much power as the to authorize the commission, the principal of The Roxbury Group, and City’s $3.3 billion fiscal crisis, also Historically, Act 312 is the rule, New York oversight board that panel will review and approve a a former deputy emergency man- had broad labor contract over- not the exception, in resolving city was its inspiration — especially four-year financial plan for the ager of Detroit. sight. police contract disputes. Even its once a few bankruptcy-era union city and its operating budgets. It An exception to the commis- That panel famously rejected la- last contract, a one-year deal contracts are up for renegotiation also has final approval of any labor sion’s labor contract oversight is bor contracts negotiated for tran- adopted in 2013 before the city’s in the coming years. contracts with Detroit’s more than when it comes to anything that in- sit workers and with the city’s $18 billion Chapter 9 bankruptcy The commission members, ap- 40 employee unions. vokes Public Act 312 of 1969, which Board of Education for teachers, petition, was an arbitration rul- pointed by Gov. Rick Snyder last The remaining commission provides mandatory binding arbi- before relinquishing much of its ing. week to serve along with Detroit members appointed were Lorron tration for labor disputes with po- power in 1986. President Mark Diaz of the po- Mayor Mike Duggan and Detroit James, vice president of business lice and fire. The review team can, The issue may not surface for a lice officers association said last City Council President Brenda affairs at James Group International; however, make its case and argue while in Detroit, which adopted a week the unions feel they are able Jones, will meet again Nov. 21 and Darrell Burks, former senior part- the city’s financial condition to an new labor pact through bankrupt- to negotiate with the Duggan ad- Dec. 5. The commission will begin ner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP; arbitrator or panel in those dis- cy mediation that expires in June ministration, but that the current pact ratified in August made some concessions to the city. And Act 312 wasn’t an option in fashioning that deal, because of some provisions in the 2012 state law giving broader powers to Detroit Emer- gency Manager Kevyn Orr. “Historically, we’ve had to use 312 just as a means of getting closure,” Diaz said. “We are confident in our relationship with the new mayor and some of his assurances that public safety is a priority for the city, and that makes us fairly confident that we can reach resolu- tions before resorting to 312. “However, in the event we do have to resort to it to gain finality, I am also confident in arbitration panels to give us correct decisions.” The current contract only partly unwinds a set of wage cuts imposed by then-Mayor Dave Bing on police in 2012, offsetting a new pay increase with a 6 percent set-aside of base pay for officers to contribute to the Police and Fire Retirement System pension plan, and freezing compen- sation next fiscal year. The local Review Commission will retain active oversight of city finances for at least three years — possibly much longer, depending on how quickly Detroit can meet various financial performance benchmarks. Then it moves to a less-active monitoring role for at least 10 years. Depending on the political envi- Legacy ronment a few years from now, it’s possible that management may William* find Act 312 more appealing than police and fire labor unions do, Family is a top priority for us. Which is why we want to know that the said Patricia Nemeth, owner of De- troit-based Nemeth Law PC, which decisions we make now will ensure a bright future for us, our children represents management in collec- tive bargaining agreements and and our grandchildren. Our FirstMerit Client Advisor understands our has represented municipalities in aspirations and helped us develop a long-term investment plan. He also police/fire arbitration. “Generally speaking, in the past helps us manage our day-to-day banking needs so we can focus on what’s it’s been the union who wants to go important. We have peace of mind knowing our legacy will live on. into 312. There’s a perception that they will get more from an arbitrator or panel of arbitrators than through the traditional negotiation process,” she said. “But more recently, with the economy being poor for cities, it’s possible that influence will change TO LEARN MORE ABOUT as arbitrators can see how municipalities are in trouble financially.” FIRSTMERIT PRIVATEBANK, CONTACT: Rep. John Walsh, R-Livonia, Ken Duetsch II, Senior Vice President, who sponsored the original review 248-430-1255 ken.duetsch@firstmerit.com at or . commission bill, said there was not enough support in Lansing to Follow the latest market trends amend Act 312 or to empower the @firstmerit_mkt new commission to override it. He also noted that the legislature already had made several modifica- *William reflects a composite of clients with whom we’ve worked; he does not represent any one person. tions to Act 312 in 2011. Non-deposit trust products are not insured by the FDIC; are not deposits or obligations of FirstMerit Bank, N.A, or any of its affiliates; are not Member FDIC Chad Halcom: (313) 446-6796, guaranteed by FirstMerit Bank, N.A or any of its affiliates; and are subject to investment risk, including possible loss of principal invested. 2798_FM14 [email protected]. Twitter: @chadhalcom 20141117-NEWS--0011-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 11:49 AM Page 1

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Cool Places To Work in Michigan

Elana Sullivan of the MS Society LARGE COMPANIES (250 or more employees) 1. National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Michigan Chapter, Southfield, Page 12 2. Digitas Inc., dba DigitasLBi, Detroit, Page 13 3. M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates Inc., dba Gensler, Detroit, Page 13 Workplaces 4. Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, Grand Rapids, Page 14 5. CMGRP Inc., dba Weber Shandwick, Birmingham, Page 15 Complete list, Page 14 of note Employee-friendly cultures

Karen Baldwin (right) of Greenleaf Trust keep companies happy MIDSIZE COMPANIES ttracting and retaining talent is tant to maintaining a strong workforce. (50-249 employees) the never-ending concern of ON THE WEB “If you’re looking to recruit and retain a di- 1. Greenleaf Trust, Kalamazoo, employers everywhere. verse group of top talent, no program or policy is Page 15 From their generous time-off Videos and photos from inside many of our 75 going to fit the needs of every person,” Cool Places to Work, policies to ice cream socials, em- said Cheryl Coutchie, director of hu- 2. Gongos Research Inc., dba crainsdetroit.com/coolplaces Gongos Inc., Auburn Hills, ployers that understand the val- man resources for Grand Rapids-based A ue of a talented, enduring work- Warner Norcross & Judd LLP. Page 16 The final ranking is force will go to some lengths to keep workers heavily weighted to- Most of the organizations have no 3. Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC, happy. ward the employee shortage of fun perks to keep their dba McGraw Wentworth Crain’s Cool Places to Work recognition workers looking forward to coming Troy, Page 17 portion of the assess- program honors employers that go the extra ment, accounting for to work every day. Free massages 4. Reliance One Inc., Auburn Hills, mile to make employees feel appreciated — as 75 percent of the evalu- are a big one, as are free food, Page 18 judged by the employees themselves. ation. The employer yoga trainers and the everlasting The program was open to Michigan busi- end accounts for the re- foosball table. 5. Arrow Strategies LLC, Bingham nesses, nonprofits and government entities. maining 25 percent. There’s also something to be Farms, Page 18 An organization must have at least 15 employ- This is important not said for letting employees do ees at a Michigan location their jobs. Whatever an em- Complete list, Page 17 just to make sure the to have been considered. rankings are based on ployer did to attract its work- Harrisburg, Pa.-based re- what actual employees feel, ers — whether it was the search business Best Com- but also so employers can benefits package, pay or free panies Group gathered data make sure they’re not wast- yoga lessons — one way to keep them is and conducted surveys on ing their money on unneces- to get out of their way, several of the featured each organization to create sary benefits. A common fea- organizations said. the final rankings. The ture among employers that perform well in “We support them and get out of the way,” rankings are divided into Best Companies’ surveys throughout the coun- said William Hartman, principal and manag- Gary Wentzloff of McLaren three groups according to try is that they have two-way dialogue with em- ing director at the Detroit office of architec- SMALL COMPANIES organization size, as mea- ployees, said Susan Springer, director of work- tural firm Gensler. 2014 sured by employee count. Also as part of this program, participating (15-49 employees) place assessments for Best Companies Group. PROFILES Best Companies ranked An employer that offers smoking cessation organizations receive a packet of detailed in- 1. McLaren Physician Partners, 75 companies that it felt and weight-loss programs might be missing its formation based on employee responses. The Auburn Hills, Page 19 BY GARY ANGLEBRANDT earned the badge of Cool target, Springer said. “You really have to see packet includes valuable information on how Place to Work. We employees feel about their workplace, broken 2. Brogan & Partners Advertising what employees want.” Consultancy Inc., dba Brogan break out the top five As is usually the case with these types out by demographics and staff levels. & Partners, Birmingham, Page 20 from each category for a closer look at of honors, the leading organiza- This is valuable information on its own, re- what the organizations do to attract and tions emphasized flexibility gardless of how the organization ranks. But 3. Preh Inc., Novi, Page 20 retain talent. and diversity. An em- they’d better be prepared for the truth, said Best Companies’ assessment is ployer can offer one high-ranking participant. 4. Center for Financial Planning done in two parts. On the employer “If you’re going to throw your hat in the ring, Inc., Southfield, Page 21 any number of side, the organization provides ex- amenities and you’d better be darned sure you have the right 5. Clarity Communication Advisors tensive information on its benefits, benefits, but culture or you’re going to get slapped in the Inc., Southfield, Page 21 policies, practices and perks, then em- keeping in mind face,” said Christen Carmean, director of hu- ployees’ voices are heard through a confi- that people are not man resources at Gongos Inc. in Auburn Hills. Complete list, Page 19 dential, 80-question survey. all the same is impor- — Gary Anglebrandt 20141117-NEWS--0012,0013-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 10:16 AM Page 1

Page 12 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS November 17, 2014 Cool Places to Work in Michigan: Large Companies MS Society: Flexible schedules the key to turnaround

s an organization that helps people affected by multiple Asclerosis, the National Multi- ple Sclerosis Society, Michigan Chap- ter understands the importance of a flexible schedule. Following a severe workforce reduction induced by the economic NO. 1 woes of 2008, the National nonprofit’s em- Multiple ployees who sur- Sclerosis vived the cuts Society, were stuck do- Michigan ing the work of Chapter all the people Elana Sullivan, president of the Southfield who hadn’t. To National Multiple U.S. employees: ease the pain, Sclerosis Society, 1,300 management set Michigan up an employee Chapter, was committee and listened to it when challenged to it asked for new options in work allow employee scheduling. flexibility in the The chapter gave employees workplace during greater latitude in setting their own difficult economic schedules, using options like four times. longer workweek days, an 11-to-7 JOHN SOBCZAK workday and working from home. horrible economic conditions our for playing a central role. “Em- tional Urban League’s Mature Work- Regular conference calls for These were not easy decisions to organization has ever seen,” said ployees were empowered to do it ers Program to provide on-the-job the national organization are make. While human resources pro- on their own schedule,” she said. fessionals and companies with chapter President Elana Sullivan. training for workers to pick up new held, often hosted by the national award-winning workplaces rou- “There was skepticism. How can The nonprofit also is generous skills. CEO and featuring national tinely preach flexibility, many com- we let people do this while we’re with its time-off options, giving Employees are required to es- speakers. panies still don’t practice it. Going struggling?” employees 25 PTO days and 13 paid tablish a personal development “We don’t have a foosball table, down this path while facing great The chapter turned itself around holidays every year, as well as plan each year, and the national but we don’t have a big office, ei- pressures was all the more daring. within a couple of years, and Sulli- flexible hours. MS organization provides an on- ther,” Sullivan said. “MS is pretty “I undertook this under the most van credits the flexible schedule The chapter works with the Na- line portal to offer live courses. serious business.”

CULTURE COUNTS.

At The Mars Agency, our purpose is to drive growth for ourselves as well as our clients and community. In that light, we look at investments in our work environment as far more than “perks.” They are investments in our culture. And culture impacts everything. It’s what makes us different and gives us an advantage. It inspires us. And nothing could be cooler than that. 20141117-NEWS--0012,0013-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 10:17 AM Page 2

November 17, 2014 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Page 13 Cool Places to Work in Michigan: Large Companies Digitas’ winning workplace ways employ diversity, fun, sharing ideas

igitasLBi is a perennial workplace award winner. D The digital marketing company goes beyond snacks and margarita machines to accommo- date workers, offering benefits that bring diverse people into the fold. The company gives two paid NO. 2 weeks off to par- Digitas Inc., ents of a new- dba DigitasLBi born child, be Detroit they traditional U.S. couples or employees: same-sex cou- 2,067 ples. It does the same for couples who adopt or become foster parents. It also gives up to $5,000 to couples who adopt, to help offset the high costs. COURTESY OF DIGITASLBI Same-sex couples are sure to be Digitas’ volunteer program includes employee participation at Gleaners Community Food Bank in Detroit. included in the benefits package offered by the company, and Digitas Amenities include a “Tiki Trolley” sues or client challenges. also gives same-sex couples who manned by a different group every “We had someone ask if they have commitment ceremonies the month that brings the cart around could have a scooter to get around same two days off it gives to tradi- on Thursday afternoons with sig- the office,” said Robert Guay, man- tionally wedded couples. nature cocktails and beer intended aging director of the Detroit office. Digitas sets up programs to sup- to wow co-workers. The company now has five standup port different groups of people There are soda fountains, healthy scooters for people to roll around on. within the company, such as His- and not-so-healthy snacks, and A Hearts in Action program lets panic, women and LGBT workers. bagels every Friday morning. Mas- employees win grants for their fa- Through these programs, the com- sages, manicures and pedicures are vorite charity. To win, groups of pany holds events and brings in common. employees give a presentation. The speakers relevant to the groups. Through a monthly meeting first-place prize is $1,500; second is The company organizes these pro- called Business & Bagels, and sug- $1,000; and third is $500. A separate grams, as opposed to having the re- gestion boxes placed throughout matching program gives employees spective workers organize them, the workplace, Digitas solicits “Say up to an additional $600 toward so these employees feel welcome. Anything” ideas, which might be their charitable contributions. But the company does not by- changing snacks from plain M&Ms And for those who fall ill, Digi- pass the softer perks, either. to peanut, to more serious work is- tas offers unlimited sick time. Gensler: Employees also own company

ensler has 46 offices and is in the upper echelons of the G world’s architectural firms. That means it has serious competition when it comes to getting talent. “To attract the best talent, we support them and get out of the NO. 3 way. We encour- M. Arthur age people to use Gensler Jr. & their intelli- Associates gence and share An office INDIVIDUAL SUITES Inc., dba what they have Halloween party for employees and Gensler with others,” Detroit their families Available for Pistons games, concerts, said William helps keep morale U.S. employees: Hartman, prin- high at Gensler. and family shows. Includes premium food 3,266 cipal and man- COURTESY OF GENSLER and beverage options. aging director at the Detroit office. Gensler has a lot of people shut- extensive vetting process that One motivator is that employees tling to different clients in other draws in peer groups, practice own 100 percent of the company countries, so the firm recruits in- leaders and voices from outside through a stock ownership plan. ternational candidates and han- the candidate’s office. “We try not Profits are distributed annually, dles the visa and work permit to act provincial,” Hartman said. and ownership means the whole process for traveling workers. Gensler runs a quarterly “Well- company, not individual offices. That way, clients and the employ- Being Week” full of activities like This also helps to smoothly pass ees can focus on the job. The com- self-defense classes, yoga, healthy ownership on from one generation pany also maintains a global in- happy hours, massage therapists, to the next. When partners leave or tern program where offices host hula hoop, guest speakers and inter- retire, the firm buys out the part- international interns. office competitions, such as the Pistons.com/premium ner’s shares and redistributes them There is a yearly appointments stair-climbing competition, of which among the remaining workforce. process for promoting employees the Detroit office is a past winner. (248) 377-8477 Employees also are eligible for to associate, senior associate or Wellness also is promoted by of- twice-a-year bonuses, which are principal levels. The process in- fering free biometric screenings and celebrated at bonus parties. volves numerous criteria and an giving gift cards to participants. 20141117-NEWS--0014,0015-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 10:15 AM Page 1

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COURTESY OF WARNER NORCROSS & JUDD Warner Norcross associate attorneys and summer associates (law students) enjoy an afternoon of team building and paintball. Warner Norcross formula: Recruitment, diversity, food

aw firm Warner Norcross & Judd keep employees’ minds on their LLP has eight offices in Michi- job, rather than on concerns over Lgan, and it keeps them filled their benefits. with quality talent by maintaining “If you’re looking to recruit and a steady, structured recruiting retain a diverse group of top tal- regimen. ent, no program or policy is going Every year, the firm solicits ré- to fit the needs of every person,” sumés from 100 Coutchie said. law schools to “As we make benefits decisions, Argent International, Inc. NO. 4 fill a deter- share technology, train and estab- 41016 Concept Drive, Plymouth, MI 48170 Warner mined number lish guidelines, we try to do that as www.argent-international.com Tel: 800-223-9890 Norcross & of slots. “This flexibly as possible so we can allow Judd LLP allows us to the top talent we hire to contribute Grand Rapids have a continu- at their highest level possible.” U.S. employees: ous supply of When it comes to softer perks, 393 new talent,” “we are very well known for our said Cheryl food,” Coutchie said. Every day Coutchie, director of human re- there is some offering on hand, be sources for the firm. it bagels, cut fruit, granola or Diversity plays a leading role in slushies. this drive. Warner contacts cam- “If you can get people together pus minority organizations and around food, you learn a lot about asks them to inform members of people. Then they can handle career opportunities and it spon- those stressful times a lot better,” sors minority scholarships for she said. prospective lawyers, paralegals An on-site health coach is avail- and legal secretaries. able 10 hours a week for consulta- It also participates in internship tions and does not share any per- programs aimed at inner-city sonal information with anyone youths. else at the firm, including human The constant hiring has led to resources. an age-diverse workforce, with The firm also pays 75 percent of lawyers 24 to 68 years old practic- the cost of a 24-week weight man- ing together full time. agement program led by a regis- Flexibility is seen as a way to tered dietician.

12. Educational Data Systems Inc. LARGE COMPANIES dba EDSI, Dearborn 250 or more employees U.S. employees: 408 6. Ryan LLC, Detroit 13. WorkForce Software LLC, Livonia U.S. employees: 1,395 U.S. employees: 369 14. Diplomat Pharmacy Inc., Flint 7. Cequent Performance Products Inc., Plymouth Township U.S. employees: 958 U.S. employees: 365 15. Mars Advertising Inc. dba The Mars Agency, Southfield 8. Michigan First Credit Union U.S. employees: 263 Lathrup Village U.S. employees: 262 16. CBS Radio Inc. dba CBS Radio Detroit, Southfield 9. Blue Cross Blue Shield of U.S. employees: 19,490 Michigan, Detroit U.S. employees: 7,468 17. Walbridge Aldinger Co., Detroit U.S. employees: 980 10. United Shore Financial Services LLC, Troy 18. Trilogy Health Services LLC U.S. employees: 1,087 West Bloomfield Township U.S. employees: 7,733 11. WideOpenWest Michigan LLC 19. Great Lakes Home Health dba WOW! Internet Cable Phone Services Inc. dba Great Lakes Madison Heights Caring, Jackson U.S. employees: 3,363 U.S. employees: 1,200 20141117-NEWS--0014,0015-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 11:13 AM Page 2

November 17, 2014 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Page 15 Cool Places to Work in Michigan: Large Companies Weber Shandwick: Quality draws quality

he way Weber Shandwick sees Schueneman said. it, having a quality staff at- Through a program called No Ttracts better clients, and at- Boundaries, employees can submit tracting better clients ensures a an application to receive $1,000 and pipeline of great talent. an extra week of vacation to pursue Andy Schueneman, general man- a lifelong dream. One employee ager of the New York City-based went to Las Vegas so she could race THANK YOU firm’s Birming- cars and be trained by expert dri- ham office, calls vers. Another went to Costa Rica to CHN team members NO. 5 this cycle a fig- rebuild an elementary school. CMGRP Inc. ure eight. One worker wanted to overcome dba Weber “Attracting her fears, so she went to the Ba- for again making us one of Shandwick talent helps at- hamas to swim with sharks. Birmingham tract the best The company’s corporate net- Crain’s Cool Places U.S. employees: clients, which work has thousands of online 1,400 then circles courses available for personal de- to Work! back,” he said. velopment, and Weber Shandwick 570 Kirts Blvd . Suite 231 . Troy . MI 48084 To attract that talent, the public also brings in experts to instruct PHONE 248.928.0111 . TOLL FREE 866.282.3119 relations firm hands out spot on work-related topics such as oral FAX 248.928.0122 bonuses for jobs well done, and new COURTESY OF WEBER SHANDWICK presentations, writing and search www.communityhousingnetwork.org employee referral bonuses of $2,500. Weber Shandwick competed in a engine optimization. dodgeball tourament — complete with Workers have opportunities to Other perks include annual custom shirts — to support Friendship broaden their horizons through Circle, a nonprofit with a mission trips to a major-league baseball stints at the firm’s international focus on children with special needs. game, $50 a month for health and offices. At times, one of the compa- wellness, a support group for outsourced risk management ny’s 126 offices, spread out over 81 people to Shanghai, Bangkok and moms, quarterly volunteering op- countries, puts out the word that it Milan for periods of six months to portunities, and a lobby with free needs someone with specific ex- three years. popcorn, soda and espresso bar, pertise for a short-term assign- “If I had to pick a key trait we fo- and a policy that allows employees ment. The Michigan office has sent cus on, it’s intellectual curiosity,” to bring their dog to work.

Cool Places to Work in Michigan: Midsize Companies

“It’s really about finding out how our employees feel, how engaged they are coming WHAT PATH ARE YOU ON? to work every day and whether they’re getting everything they need to do their jobs and feel that they are part of something bigger,” said Karen Baldwin (right), shown talking with Greenleaf Trust’s director of marketing, Sarah Johansson. COURTESY OF GREENLEAF TRUST Greenleaf Trust: Surveying satisfaction orkforce experts say lis- our employees feel, how engaged and drug treatment, and invites Minimize Exposure. Reduce Expense. tening to employees is the they are coming to work every leaders from the nonprofits to Wfirst step to developing a day, and whether they’re getting speak at staff meetings. The Sterling Insurance Risk-Path-Process® is a proven benefits package that suits the everything they need to do their On the wellness side, Greenleaf needs of a company’s workers. jobs and feel that they are part of offers $150 per quarter in reim- multi-channel, enterprise level risk management strategy. To that end, Greenleaf Trust, a fi- something bigger,” Baldwin said. bursements for wellness activities, To ﬁnd out how you can minimize your exposures while nancial services business for peo- Greenleaf President Michael handy since the company’s base is driving down your cost, contact a Sterling Certiﬁed Risk ple with at least $2 million in liq- Odar also hosts monthly all-staff within walking distance of five ex- uid assets, has meetings to provide news on the ercise centers. A covered bike rack Architect to get you on the right path. NO. 1 its employees company, and the CFO gives quar- in the company’s garage is fill out satisfac- terly updates on the profitability watched by security. 888.525.7575 | 586.323.5700 | sterlingagency.com Greenleaf Trust tion surveys picture. Recognition comes by way of a Kalamazoo, about six times When the company’s profitabili- gong: When someone does some- Birmingham a year, includ- ty goals are met, everyone shares thing beneficial to the firm like U.S. employees: ing surveys con- in the profits by an amount in pro- bring in a new client or assist 91 ducted by out- portion to their salary. Those who someone else at the company, the side organiz- meet their individual goals are eli- person is recognized at a staff Sterling Insurance Group is a Michigan based company. ations and a strategic planning gible for an additional profitability meeting and gets to bang the com- survey. bonus. The company also gives out pany gong. Co-workers also honor The company’s specialized busi- spot awards — money for a specif- one another by giving out “Dia- ness makes it hard to find talent; ic job well done. mond Drop” awards. the surveys help with recruiting The firm offers no limits on sick Employee appreciation also is Crain’s 2015 General and people and keeping existing work- or personal days and pays 100 per- demonstrated through activities NOMINATIONS In-House Counsel Awards ers happy, said Karen Baldwin, di- cent of employees’ health plans. such as ice cream and cookouts Healthiest Employers: rector of human resources. Greenleaf supports local non- during the workday, and surprise NOW OPEN Best wellness programs “From an internal perspective, profits on causes such as helping pizza lunches with Chairman crainsdetroit.com/nominate from Southeast Michigan it’s really about finding out how foster children, at-risk children William Johnston. 20141117-NEWS--0016,0017-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 11:00 AM Page 1

Page 16 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS November 17, 2014 Cool Places to Work in Michigan: Midsize Companies Gongos: Chats with the CEO, rotating Thanks... perks, importance of personal time Turner Construction ongos Inc., a marketing research business, appreciates ZI Custom Gthe value of personal time. When a person joins the team at Gongos, the new employee auto- Gasser Bush matically gets 120 hours — three workweeks — of paid time off. Reclaim Detroit The hours go into a bank from NO. 2 which workers and Piedmont Gongos can deduct time Research Inc., for a day off or dba Gongos vacation, or deal for helping us create our Inc. with an illness. Auburn Hills The company Cool Place! U.S. employees: also shuts its 127 doors from Dec. 24-Jan. 6, but employees still earn a paycheck. Gongos is certified by the Women Business Enterprise National Council and promotes diversity through awareness programs by offering do- COURTESY OF GONGOS INC. Gongos Inc. offers an annual parking lot picnic and balloon toss. mestic partner benefits for LGBT employees and recognizing non- Carmean said she’s seen other lighthearted. Christian holidays. companies do this sort of thing, Twice a year, bonuses are paid “We’re a Christian-based believ- but the questions usually are sub- out based on the company hitting ing organization, so we have Chris- mitted and cleared, as well as an- revenue targets. tian holidays, but we also recognize swered, by a public relations spe- Employees can telework one day that some employees may not em- cialist. a week. When at the office, there brace Dec. 25,” said Christen “Camille goes in blind and has are rotating monthly perks, such Carmean, director of human reno idea. It can be a Nerf ball ques- as free ice cream, fresh fruit or a sources. “While this is our belief, tion or it can be a tough question,” continually replenished stock of we don’t expect anybody else to do Carmean said. candy bars. that. ... If they have a different holi- Nicita also sends weekly video Gongos has many other perks, day, they can swap out.” messages to the staff. The message including a basketball court, walk- CEO Camille Nicita holds “fire- might cover business results, ing clubs, stand-up work cubes, a side chats” once a quarter where plans, news from a conference parking lot picnic and after-work employees can ask questions. she’s attending or just something events.

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November 17, 2014 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Page 17 Cool Places to Work in Michigan: Midsize Companies McGraw Wentworth: Understanding needs of workforce management

t’s fitting that McGraw Wentworth has picked up plenty of work- Iplace awards. Workforce management is the company’s business. McGraw Wentworth designs and manages group benefits programs for organizations of 100 to 10,000 employees. It was NO. 3 bought by White Plains, N.Y.- Marsh & based Marsh & McLennan McLennan Agency Agency LLC, dba McGraw LLC in 2012. The Wentworth company has Troy earned two previous Cool U.S. employees: 86 Places awards from Crain’s, and has a long list of similar awards, such as a Best Places to Work award from Crain’s sister publication Business Insurance. “We are acutely aware of what it means to support human resource initiatives and understand the importance of people and their satis- COURTESY OF MCGRAW WENTWORTH faction,” said President Tom Above: Last May, a McGraw Wentworth team sorted and packed McGraw. 21,400 pounds of food for Gleaners As a consulting company, Community Food Bank. Left: A McGraw Wentworth needs the company Easter egg hunt included sharpest people, McGraw said. numerous perks, including coupons for “That group of performers wants a full- and half-day off. amenities, they want freedom, and lunch time. they want to be treated well.” To help employees manage their Employees have work-from- new client to the company receives workload and keep clients happy, home options and flex options to a bonus of 15 percent of the rev- the company says it has a client-to- start their workdays earlier or lat- enue yielded by the new client in employee ratio of 3:1. Large com- er than 9 a.m. the first year of doing business puter monitors or dual monitors An eight-week employee appre- with McGraw Wentworth. Em- reduce eye strain while working ciation period every summer fea- ployees also receive a $1,500 bonus for these clients. tures different perks, such as free for referring new employees. Training and development pro- chair massages, “leave two hours McGraw Wentworth is active grams include mentoring for new early” days tied to participation in in volunteering for causes and or- employees and using its internal the company’s wellness program, ganizing wellness activities. One expertise as benefits specialists to and treats prepared by company of the company’s employees is a advance employees’ knowledge, founders. licensed yoga instructor who such as training them on health An employee who introduces a holds a free weekly class around care reform.

15. Creative Breakthroughs Inc. 25. Organ Procurement Agency of MIDSIZE COMPANIES Troy Michigan dba Gift of Life Michigan U.S. employees: 72 Ann Arbor 50-249 employees U.S. employees: 157 16. Community Housing Network 6. Sanctus LLC dba Shift Digital Inc., Troy 26. Duffey, Petrosky & Co. LLC Birmingham U.S. employees: 74 Farmington Hills U.S. employees: 112 U.S. employees: 144 17. Digital Leash LLC dba 7. Open Systems Technologies Inc. ProtectCell, Novi 27. Etkin LLC, Southfield dba OST, Grand Rapids U.S. employees: 111 U.S. employees: 58 U.S. employees: 150 18. Atomic Object LLC, Grand 28. Latcha and Associates LLC 8. ESG Automotive Inc., Troy Rapids Farmington Hills U.S. employees: 166 U.S. employees: 51 U.S. employees: 151 9. Cambridge Consulting Group 19. Great Lakes Capital Fund 29. PM Environmental Inc., Lansing LLC, Troy Nonprofit Housing Corp., Lansing U.S. employees: 110 U.S. employees: 53 U.S. employees: 62 30. Howard & Howard Attorneys 10. Pillar Technology Group LLC 20. The Farbman Group I Inc. dba PLLC, Royal Oak Ann Arbor Farbman Group, Southfield U.S. employees: 124 U.S. employees: 115 U.S. employees: 130 31. Mars Business Group LLC dba Computing Source, Southfield 11. Dewpoint Inc., Lansing 21. Jack Doheny Cos. Inc. Northville U.S. employees: 135 U.S. employees: 87 U.S. employees: 239 32. Potestivo & Associates, A 12. Northwestern Mutual 22. Orchard, Hiltz & McCliment Professional Corporation Investment Services LLC, Troy Inc. dba OHM Advisors, Livonia Rochester Hills U.S. employees: 163 U.S. employees: 224 U.S. employees: 150 13. Marketing Associates LLC, 23. Hungry Howie’s Pizza & Subs 33. Chase Plastic Services Inc. Detroit Inc., Madison Heights Clarkston U.S. employees: 239 U.S. employees: 86 U.S. employees: 94 14. Outdoor Hub LLC dba Carbon 24. Dent Enterprises Inc. dba 34. Argent International Inc. Media Group, Bingham Farms Dentco, DeWitt Plymouth Township U.S. employees: 54 U.S. employees: 107 U.S. employees: 95 20141117-NEWS--0018,0019-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/13/2014 4:47 PM Page 1

Page 18 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS November 17, 2014 Cool Places to Work in Michigan: Midsize Companies Did You Know? In a recent survey... Reliance One: Shifting focus to people

ver the past few years, Re- liance One Inc., a staffing firm Oinvolved in the engineering and information technology industries, has had a mindset shift. Rob Wicker, vice president of recruitment and operations, said the company used 27% of responders thought a O to focus solely N . 4 on revenue. gigabyte is a type of insect from Reliance One Then it shifted Inc. its focus to peo- South America. It’s actually a form Auburn Hills ple — clients U.S. employees: and staff. of measurement for the storage 62 “We’re concerned with capacity of an electronic device. making things happen for people, and everything else will follow,” Wicker said. The company didn’t have much of a culture when Wicker first joined the company, and five or COURTESY OF RELIANCE ONE six years ago there was a lot of Reliance One offers wellness programs for its employees. turnover, he said. That’s not the case now, with “everyone’s for jobs well-done and extra bonus- ees, who skew toward younger pulling in the same direction,” he es for the very top performers. The ages. said. financial rewards can double a There’s a social hour with The company knows how to re- person’s income, Wicker said. catered food on Fridays, an annual ward good work. It ponies up for There’s complete transparency March Madness get-together and 42% of responders thought a an all-expenses trip to a luxury re- on “what everyone makes and an annual trip to a Detroit Tigers sort once a year for employees who what (revenue) they’re bringing game. Big television screens motherboard is a deck on a cruise hit a certain performance level. to the company,” he said. “This is throughout the office display About 17 people won this year’s not a place where you get a bunch sports and news. ship. It’s usually a circuit board that trip to Cancun. of rewards for not doing any- Reliance One employees are Year-end bonuses are available thing. paid for their time volunteering in holds many of the key components for people who meet goals for the Consultants are hired to provide the community, and the company year, plus there are ongoing re- ongoing professional development supports charities that help sick of a computer. wards, retention bonuses, time off and industry training for employ- children. Arrow Strategies: ‘Culture is fairly unique’

rrow Strategies LLC, a staffing firm, figures it costs $360,000 A to replace a highly skilled worker, when factors such as pro- 23% of responders thought*Information from Vouchercloud.net an ductivity and finding and training MP3 is a Star Wars robot. It’s a replacement are taken into account. actually a common audio file. This is a message it NO. 5 pitches to cus- Arrow Strategies tomers, and LLC keeps in mind Bingham Farms for its own op- U.S. employees: erations. 72 Arrow Strategies has 72 employees, including 53 in Michigan. In addition to its Bing- ham Farms headquarters, it has Don’t guess about offices in Grand Rapids; Chicago; Dallas; Hartford, Conn.; Century technology. Consult with an expert. City, Calif.; and Des Moines, Iowa. “Our culture is fairly unique. Is your company’s IT where it should We (do) different things,” said Martha Bol-Johnson, the compa- COURTESY OF ARROW STRATEGIES be? Call Vision Computer Solutions ny’s human resources generalist. Members of Arrow Strategies’ Achiever's Club are on their way to a fun outing. To keep employees happy, it of- at (248)349-6115. north. available to employees who have fers fringe benefits like a Free on-site massages are avail- met their goals for the year. Past concierge service — an employee Mention “Crains” able twice a month. Food such as destinations have included Flori- who picks up lunches, gets gro- fruit, milk and cereal, and peanut da, the Bahamas and Punta Cana for a free network evaluation. ceries, takes cars for oil changes butter and jelly sandwiches are in the Dominican Republic. and other errands. available every day. There’s also a Arrow offers “unlimited PTO,” Exercises such as paintball, game room and a gym. which means employees ask for rock climbing, and high-ropes A tuition reimbursement pro- days off as needs arise, with no courses bring teams closer togeth- gram pays up to 100 percent of tu- limit set as to how many times er. There are “It’s 5 o’clock some- ition and subsidizes certification they can ask. where” breaks that could be ice programs. Employees are encour- This plays into the company’s cream socials or times to break aged to participate in professional support for charities, too, as it www.vcsolutions.com (248) 349-6115 out the margarita machine. development seminars and confer- frees up time for employees to [email protected] Once a year, Arrow holds a ences. take a “Community Service Day” 133 W Main St- Ste 112 Northville, MI 48167 “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” often Every year, the company takes where employees donate time to a at CEO Jeff Styers’ cottage up its staff to a tropical destination, charity while still on the clock. 20141117-NEWS--0018,0019-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/13/2014 4:47 PM Page 2

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COURTESY OF BROGAN & PARTNERS E-waste recycling/data destruction/computer liquidation Last year’s destination for Brogan & Partners’ staffwide mystery trip: Key West, Fla. Call: 248-891-7330 or Email: [email protected] Brogan: Free trip … but to where?

dvertising and public rela- cure, and a lounge area filled with The company also has a profit- tions firm Brogan & Partners comfy chairs for employees to relax sharing program that distributes EEXECUTIVEXECUTIVE CCALENDARALENDAR Aoffers amenities that many in while brainstorming. up to $5,000 to staffers and 17.5 per- companies provide nowadays: But most companies don’t give cent of salary to associates. Regional event dates, locations and contacts, all in one place. Weekly visits from manicurists their entire staff a free vacation. Friendly competitions for prizes and yoga instructors, free lunches And those that do probably don’t are held, including a “Walk to Cali- crainsdetroit.com/executivecalendar for those who don’t want a mani- make the destination a secret. fornia” contest in which people Every year, tack their miles walked on a map O Brogan & Part- to California, or guessing when a N . 2 ners sends its Brogan & client’s Facebook page is going to staff to a differ- hit 100,000 likes. Partners ent vacation Advertising The agency taps its vendors’ destination and Consultancy knowledge through lunches where juices up the ex- Inc. dba a vendor representative shares in- Brogan & citement by not formation on best practices or new Partners disclosing technology. Birmingham where they’re U.S. employees: going until the Employees who go beyond the 40 day they leave. call of duty, such as one who spent Last year, the a weekend fixing a client’s old company went to Key West, Fla. website to use while Brogan built a Other places it has visited include new site, are honored with a “Bro- Aruba, Jamaica, New Orleans, Am- gan Values Perfectionista” award. sterdam and Reykjavik, Iceland. Employees share their lessons “One person plans the trip and learned by nominating themselves sends out clues. We’re constantly for a Mistake of the Month award guessing about where we’re going,” so co-workers don’t repeat the said Ellyn Davidson, who, even same mistakes. though she’s managing partner, About 25 percent of Brogan em- also is kept in the dark. “There’s a ployees are board members at little understanding about what to community organizations, and the pack, although people have taken agency gives pro bono advertising bathing suits to Washington, D.C., to charities such as Winning Futures in early March. You never know ex- and the Susan G. Komen Race for actly where you’re going.” the Cure.

THE STRENGTH Preh: Free health care a plus ® ure, it’s nice to have a foos- said his company chose to provide BEHIND OUR CLIENTS ball table and free coffee, free health care after reading a Stwo amenities provided by study showing where employees Business leaders turn to Plunkett Cooney for determined, Preh Inc. ranked health care as more impor- distinctive and fearless legal advice to achieve the right result But 100 percent free health care tant than salary. is a more substantial benefit em- “Salary itself has to be there, but from the boardroom to the courtroom. ployees are sure to appreciate. health care, life insurance, disabil- Preh designs and manufactures ity — they want to care for their control systems family. It’s a very important Q Q Banking & Finance Business Law & Litigation NO. 3 for automotive point,” Lontscharitsch said. QReal Estate Law QEstate Planning & Business Succession interiors — the This fits with the company’s QHealthcare Law QLabor & Employment Law Preh Inc. systems behind view of the workforce as a family. Novi the buttons on “We’re a big family. We always U.S. center consoles look out for each other,” Lontschar- employees: 42 and steering itsch said. “As we bring new team ATTORNEYS & COUNSELORS AT LAW wheels. The com- members in, we make sure they fit Randall R. Hall pany’s employees pay no de- into the family. It’s like when you ductibles, contributions or co-insur- adopt a kid into the family.” Business Law Department Leader ance on their health care insurance, Preh recruits internationally and 248.901.4000 | [email protected] provided through Health Alliance sponsors visas. It has employees Plan, or their life insurance and dis- from Mexico, Germany, Romania, ability benefits. Portugal, China, Canada, Colombia Michigan • Ohio • Indiana • www.plunkettcooney.com President Nick Lontscharitsch and Austria as well as the U.S. 20141117-NEWS--0020,0021-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/13/2014 4:48 PM Page 2

November 17, 2014 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Page 21 Cool Places to Work in Michigan: Small Companies Clarity: Keeping the golden rule

ary Goerke, president and CEO of Clarity Communication GAdvisors Inc., follows the golden rule for treating people in and out of the workplace. Treating people well makes for better business in the end, he says. “Happy em- NO. 5 ployees beget happy cus- Clarity tomers, and hap- Communication py customers Advisors Inc. beget a happy COURTESY OF CENTER FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING Southfield ownership The Center team volunteers with their families at Detroit-area Gleaners U.S. employees: structure,” Go- Community Food Bank. 20 erke said. Goerke came across a paper about five years ago Center for Financial Planning: that said workers who are enthusiastic about their companies yield enthusiastic customers, and it showed higher profitability for Having fun while being serious companies that followed this belief. Clarity, a provider of voice-over- t’s become fashionable for com- layout and has a kitchen, café and COURTESY OF CLARITY COMMUNICATION ADVISORS INC. Internet telephone systems to Employees share a friendly game of pingpong to break up the afternoon, relieve panies to load their offices with a conference room. The colorful small and midsize companies, has some stress, and enjoy some camaraderie. Ivideo games, beer fridges and but not loud “Center Cafe” has seen business and profits increase pinball machines. booths, stools and a flat-screen TV. as a result of Goerke picking up less traditional ones like reim- pingpong? Not often,” he said. But customers expect a certain The new look is “appealing to a this belief. bursement of home Internet costs, “I have a fridge stocked with maturity when entering the doors younger audience but also com- “It’s expensive and difficult to legal insurance and pet insurance. beer, and I don’t think anyone’s of their financial planner’s office. fortable to people who’ve been create an environment where the An employer-sponsored program ever drunk a beer.” So when the Cen- with us for 29 years,” Joy said. team is ecstatic about coming into provides counseling for life prob- A far greater boost to happiness NO. 4 ter for Financial This “cool place” is very differ- work, but it appears that doing so lems such as marital issues, finan- and productivity has come from al- Planning Inc. ent from the financial planning of- ultimately pays greater returns,” cial problems and substance lowing workers to work from any- Center for planned the de- fices of the 1980s, when the firm Financial said Goerke, who also credits this abuse. where they please, for four or even sign of its new opened. A now-retired female em- philosophy for bringing the com- And while he does provide table five days of the week. Planning Inc. offices, it had to ployee who was one of the firm’s Southfield pany’s attrition rate close to zero tennis, Goerke knows it takes “We hire big boys and big girls, ride the line be- first hires once told Joy that the and garnering “most valuable ven- more than that to make a happy and they know what they’re sup- U.S. employees: tween creating a firm didn’t allow women to wear 18 dor” awards from customers. workforce. “It’s cool to walk by posed to do. And if they don’t young, fresh feel pants back then. Clarity offers more than 20 bene- and say, ‘Wow, a pingpong table,’ know what to do, they ask,” Go- to attract new “Our firm has evolved a lot over fit and discount options including but how often do people really play erke said. talent and maintaining the sense the years,” Joy said. of sobriety expected by customers. Team-building activities, such “Our profession is very serious. as a guacamole-making contest, We’re working with people’s mon- are common at Center for Finan- ey,” said Melissa Joy, partner and cial Planning. Employees cook director of wealth management. soups for Souper Thursdays dur- Forgoing Xboxes and foosball ta- ing winter months and donate the bles, the company solicited em- saved lunch money to charity. The ployee opinion. They said they annual picnic features three- wanted an open office design with legged races and egg-and-spoon more windows and natural light, races. as well as a kitchen more con- “It seems cheesy and silly, but it ducive to hanging out. works for us,” Joy said. “Every- When the company moved into thing isn’t just about putting nose its new offices in July, employees to grindstone. It builds a collabora- were treated to a large room that tive environment. It’s not me ver- serves as a centerpiece to the office sus somebody else.” s

COURTESY OF PREH INC. Preh employees and family members at the Better Life Canine Center in Redford.

Opportunities arise for employees for software engineers. Perfor- to do multiyear stints overseas, as mance bonuses and referral bonus- Preh’s automaker customers have es are available. needs at plants around the world. As for the foosball table, Preh It also has a recruiting program doesn’t let it collect dust. An em- for the hearing-impaired communi- ployee organizes a tournament, ty. The company reaches out to re- complete with a schedule and fi- lated organizations as it searches nals. DBpageAD_DBpageAD.qxd 11/10/2014 10:06 AM Page 1

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BILL BOOSTS AUTISM COVERAGE A $26 million state fund has resulted in more than 60 companies offering coverage for their workers, Page 26

People CRAIN’S HEALTH CARE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT

Ⅲ A. Mark Fendrick, M.D., director of the Center for Value- Based Insurance Design and professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan, has been elected a member of the Institute of Fendrick Medicine. Ⅲ Marquitta Massey was promoted from manager to director of the Quality Improvement and Provider Management Network for the Oakland County Community Mental Massey Health Authority. Ⅲ Michael Chopp, Ph.D., scientific director of the Neuroscience Institute at Henry Ford Hospital, was awarded the 2015 Thomas Willis Lecture Award, which recognizes contributions to the research and management of stroke. Ⅲ Rosalie Tocco- Bradley, Ph.D, M.D., was appointed chief medical officer for St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor and St. Joseph Mercy Livingston hospitals, effective Dec. 1. Ⅲ James Woolliscroft, M.D., Tocco-Bradley University of Michigan Medical School dean, was awarded the Flexner Award for leadership in medical education by the Association of American Medical Colleges. PHOTOS BY AARON ECKELS Ⅲ Barbara Palmer, Clockwise from top left: Rob Casalou of St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor and Livingston, Gene Michalski of Beaumont Health, Nancy Schlichting of Henry Ford vice president of Health System and Joe Mullany of Detroit Medical Center debated the risks and rewards of prepaid health care contracts. human resources for Botsford Health Care, was named an American Society of Employers Human Resource Executive of the Year for Health. Risk management Ⅲ Lawrence Horn, Palmer M.D., chairman of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Wayne State University, will receive the Health system CEOs split on prepaid contracts from employers, health insurers Legacy Society Professional Service Award at the 17th annual Brain Injury BY JAY GREENE based contracts, said insurers and employers. Association of Michigan Legacy Society Spring Tribute Dinner. CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS CLICK AND TELL Nancy Schlichting of Some payers, including Blue Cross Ⅲ Ananda Prasad, Summit attendees Henry Ford Health Sys- Blue Shield of Michigan, are experiment- our leading health system CEOs M.D., Ph.D, used an audience tem, Gene Michalski ing with performance-based contracts, professor of internal in Southeast Michigan said they response system to of Beaumont Health, which reimburse providers under fee- medicine at Wayne are preparing their organizations weigh in on five State University, questions about Joe Mullany of the for-service but with bonus payments for to accept a variety of financial health care has been made an F Detroit Medical Cen- improved quality. consolidation and honorary member of risk contracts for patients under their ter and Rob Casalou the International quality vs. costs. Schlichting and Mullany say their sys- care from health insurers or employers. The results are in, of St. Joseph Mercy Society for Zinc tems are ready to move beyond shared- Biology for his Most financial risk contracts reim- Page 25 Ann Arbor and Liv- contributions to risk contracts to sign prepaid, full-risk burse providers under fee-for-service ingston hospitals. research in the field. contracts for specific populations of pa- Prasad with the potential of receiving bonus pay- But at the sixth annual Crain’s Ⅲ Tsveti Markova, tients. Michalski and Casalou said their M.D., FAAFP, associate dean of ments for hitting quality targets. Another Health Care Leadership Summit this systems are looking to sign more pay-for- graduate medical education for the type of risk contract allows providers to month, two of the four CEOs — Schlicht- Wayne State University School of performance-type contracts that reward share savings from cost reductions. ing and Mullany — said during a panel Medicine, has been appointed chairman providers for improving quality and of the department of family medicine So far, however, few systems have discussion that they are ready to make and public health sciences. been offered or signed prepaid, risk- or expand on those prepaid deals with See CEOs, Page 24 20141117-NEWS--0024,0025-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/13/2014 5:03 PM Page 1

Page 24 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS November 17, 2014 Health Care CEOs:Payment paradigm ■ From Page 23 holding down unnecessary use In September, Beaumont com- of services. pleted a deal to combine opera- Under prepaid reimbursement tions with Oakwood Healthcare and — also known as capitation or pre- Botsford Health Care, creating an payment — hospitals and physi- eight-hospital system with more cians take financial risk for a set than 5,000 physicians and about 30 Health Care Is Shifting Ground. number of health care services in percent of metro Detroit’s inpa- exchange for a prepaid monthly tient admissions. rate per member. Michalski said the merger will Be Supported by Solid Counsel. Unlike fee-for-service reimburse- enable Beaumont to cut costs 4 per- ment, in which providers make cent by improving efficiencies and more money for more procedures, enable physicians and hospitals to prepaid reimbursement requires coordinate care more effectively hospitals and doctors to provide for larger groups of patients. only appropriate care. “This has the potential of being a Experts think government pay- market-changer,” Michalski said. ers — Medicare and Medicaid — Casalou said Livonia-based CHE and private payers ultimately will Trinity Health, the parent company reimburse providers on a prepaid of six-hospital St. Joseph Mercy basis in the coming years. Health System, also is preparing to “I hope we move quickly to a pre- take financial risks for large Visit blogs.hallrender.com for the latest updates on topics related to health care law. payment (flat payment per member groups of patients. per month) model,” said Schlicht- “We would like to do it,” he said. ing, who leads an integrated system “It depends how quickly we part- with five hospitals, more than 40 ner with payers and the employer outpatient centers, a 1,000-member community to take risk.” employed medical group and two This year, CHE Trinity formed a health plans. “It would help us sus- separate physician-led integrated tain our system.” care company, Together Health Net- DENVER | DETROIT | INDIANAPOLIS | LOUISVILLE | MILWAUKEE | PHILADELPHIA | WASHINGTON, D.C. Like many hospital-based sys- work, with Warren-based Ascension tems under health reform, Henry Health Michigan to offer payers and Ford is working to reduce unneces- employers managed-care contracts. sary use and inpatient readmis- “The delivery system is chang- THIS IS AN ADVERTISEMENT sions. ing dramatically,” said Casalou, “We have reduced our (Medicare chairman-elect of the Michigan readmission) penalties but also lost Health & Hospital Association. “We about $28 million in revenue,” already have 80 percent to 90 per- Schlichting said. “We set goals to recent of physicians aligned with duce ER visits, imaging and read- hospitals in financial ways. That missions, but in the short run are alignment will create distribution not rewarded. I’d like to see a rapid for primary care, specialty (and cycle to a more sustainable reim- create) a continuum of care.” bursement model.” Together Health is designed as a Over the past two years, the Cen- clinically integrated network that ters for Medicare and Medicaid Ser- combines the strengths of 27 hospi- vices has been penalizing hospitals tals and related health care facili- millions of dollars if they readmit ties of nursing homes, home health certain patients within 30 days. agencies and hospices with more Medicare estimates the 2 million than 40 physician organizations readmitted patients cost the federal and 5,000 physicians. government about $17 billion each While some companies are hesi- year. tant to contract with providers di- Mullany said the DMC is treat- rectly, Schlichting said self-in- ing patients on a prepaid basis and sured companies that are willing can expand that quickly. to accept narrow provider net- “We are currently talking to pay- works for their employees stand to ers to do so,” he said. “However, I reap lower costs and higher value think this switch in payment will for their health benefits. be slower than others anticipate.” “If someone else could manage Michalski said Beaumont also is (health benefits), a network of designing its new system to take fi- providers, that is a very good ap- nancial risks for populations of pa- proach,” she said. “Most insurers tients under its care. He said profit are not offering that kind of insured margins going forward will be model. The alignment of providers based on how well systems contain and payers can drive value.” costs and improve quality. At the DMC, Mullany said the “We have $100 million at risk investor-owned eight-hospital sys- from Blue Cross Blue Shield of tem has been experimenting with Michigan and Medicare, but that care coordination in the Medicare is (a small percentage) of our population and has experienced $4 billion business,” said Michals- good financial results and in- ki. He thinks private payers will creased quality. move more quickly in the next few “Fee for service will stay for a years to pay providers for designated population groups. See Next Page

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while,” Mullany said. “Over time, WHO’S TO BLAME FOR RISING HEALTH CARE COSTS, WHAT’S THE OUTLOOK? TAKE A POLL as deductibles and copays in- Figures represent the number of respondents crease, employers may reach a point where they want to reduce 50 benefit costs” by contracting di- 47 50 rectly with providers. But the DMC made substantial 76 88 79 21 strides in the past two years in 131 135 159 48 learning how to coordinate care 183 through Michigan Pioneer ACO, a 36 127 Medicare contracting organiza- 54 92 tion made possible by the Afford- able Care Act. While nine Pioneer ACOs have dropped out of the pilot program, What is the effect when two or Have hospital acquisitions of What’s your outlook for health Who is more to blame for rising Will hospitals, physician Mullany said, the DMC has one of more hospitals merge in a market physician practices maxed out in care costs in the next three health care costs? organizations and insurers be 23 surviving accountable care or- to form a multi-hospital or Southeast Michigan? years? Health Care Policy – the financially strengthened over the ganizations. integrated delivery system? No. Much more are coming. Cost climbing faster than Affordable Care Act next 3-5 years by Obamacare’s provisions to expand private Prices rise appreciably for Hospitals need to be the GDP Trial lawyers “If you were already a heavily insurance and Medicaid by customers and health center of the health care delivery Stable costs integrated system (knowing how approximately 1 million people in insurers. system. Uninsured consumers to manage patients across the care Michigan? Prices rise but higher quality, Yes. Doctors will band Lower health care costs continuum), there was not as better patient outcomes lead together to form medical Fraud, waste and medical Yes much upside to the ACO,” Mullany to higher value for insurers and groups and more looser physician malpractice said. “We didn’t have that model.” patients. organizations. No Costs are reduced, quality is Mixed models will continue, During the first two years, he Maybe: More people will be increased and savings are but health insurers will start said, the DMC’s Michigan ACO covered but prices will keep passed along to customers in the acquiring hospitals and physician rising, and employers will continue has saved Medicare nearly $24 mil- form of lower prices and more practices. to cost-shift to employees lion and improved quality. dependable care. But the problem with ACOs, Schlichting said, is that ACOs don’t require Medicare patients to stay within a designated provider net- ome 450 attendees of Crain’s Overall, the answers generally For example, a slight plurality (40 Only 16 percent believe costs will work. Health Care Leadership indicated audience members believe percent) felt costs are lowered when decline in the next three years. Rising Because Medicare patients could SSummit were polled with an consolidation in the health care hospitals merge. Some 36 percent costs were blamed overwhelmingly audience response system on five industry will continue in an effort to said prices rise and another 24 (60 percent) on fraud, waste and choose to see a non-DMC doctor or questions that covered the theme of lower prices and improve quality. percent also agreed prices rise but medical malpractice. hospital, she said, “Our out-of-net- the meeting – consolidation and But most people leaned toward a quality improves. While the majority of people believe work costs is half our spend. I quality vs. costs. would like to see that changed. We belief that costs and prices will Audience members also believe the the Affordable Care Act will increase have to do more” to coordinate care For each question, audience continue to rise until the industry, number of hospital acquisitions of access to insurance, 65 percent members, which included about 10 insurers and government do a better physician practices will continue, believe prices will continue to rise for those patients. percent with the title of president job in controlling fraud and the but eventually health insurers will and employers will shift rising Michalski said he thinks ACOs or CEO, used a remote electronic various costs associated with also employ physicians in expenses to their workers. are a transition model that encour- clicker to express their opinions. medical malpractice. Southeast Michigan. — Jay Greene ages more physician and hospital collaboration. Casalou agreed. ACOs encour- aged health systems and hospitals “to put in place a permanent structure for clinically integrated networks. … Payers, consumers and providers all make decisions together,” he said. Schlichting said the key to future success for Henry Ford will be how well it can coordinate care of patients it serves before they are admitted to the hospital and later Take care after they are discharged. “We need ambulatory networks — the retail model — so we can connect with people” when they need health care services, said Schlicht- of your career. ing, noting that Henry Ford has 150 sites of care with 20 retail pharmacy affiliates in Southeast Michigan. Casalou said physicians aligned with hospitals on a financial basis and the smart use of electronic health records will be the corner- If you work in health stone of the delivery system of the care, or if you want to, Western future. “If we don’t align with physi- Michigan University now oﬀers multiple cians, we won’t sell anything,” he health care-related degrees at our Metro Detroit said. “Health care consumes 20 location. We are preparing today’s professionals to transform percent of the nation’s economy. This is not a sustainable model. health care and human services tomorrow. Our challenge is to shed fixed costs and turn that into variable costs.” Contact WMU-MetroDetroit at (248) 485-4500 for more Jay Greene: (313) 446-0325, [email protected]. 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BY JAY GREENE CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS

Despite an ongoing shortage of behavioral therapists to treat children with autism in Michigan, leg- Trusted Business islation approved two years ago that set up a $26 million fund to reimburse self-insured companies has resulted in more than 60 companies offering coverage for their workers. FindBusinessesYouCanTrust The three-bill legislative package mandated autism HMO cover- www.bbb.org/detroit age and set up a special state fund to reimburse private self-funded employers for their costs if they voluntarily added the benefit. Over the past several years, Michigan employers that have added autism as a covered benefit Businesses: include DTE Energy Co., Consumers Whentheysearch,willtheyĮndyou? Energy Co., Ford Motor Co., General KENNY CORBIN Motors Co., Western Michigan Univer- Dave Meador, chairman of the Autism Alliance of Michigan and DTE Energy’s BecomeaBBBAccreditedBusiness sity, Chrysler Group LLC (Michigan), chief administrative officer, and whose daughter has autism, has been a PricewaterhouseCoopers, Art Van Fur- champion for autism coverage for more than five years. niture and Delphi Automotive, said mitted $76,131 in claims for reim- analysts in Michigan, said the Ann Email:[email protected] the Autism Alliance of Michigan. bursement to the state fund. Arbor-based Center for Healthcare “We probably have more large “Initially, there was concern Research and Transformation in a Call:248.356.5085 companies self-adopted than any- that the funding may be depleted, new report. where in the U.S.,” said Dave Visit:www.bit.ly/applyBBB but with the assistance of the “We don’t have enough thera- Meador, chairman of the Autism Autism Alliance of Michigan, our pists yet, and the wait list for ap- Alliance and DTE’s chief adminis- concerns were eliminated, but the pointments is far too long,” said trative officer. “They are now lead- funding continues to be closely Marianne Udow- ers in the U.S. by providing this monitored,” Sobecki said. Phillips, the coverage.” In 2015, Ford will begin to offer center’s direc- As of Oct. 23, the Michigan autism therapy to its salaried ben- tor. “There have autism fund has paid out $2.7 mil- efit plan, said Beck Sanch, Ford been 1,300 chil- lion of the $26 million in the fund communication manager. dren served, but with about $1.4 million in pending Last fall, Michigan added 16,000 in the claims, said the Michigan Depart- autism as a Medicaid benefit, but state.” ment of Insurance and Financial Ser- it covers only children ages 18 Since April vices, which administers the fund. months to 6 years. 2012, the num- But of the more than five dozen “This has to change. The age ber of licensed Udow-Phillips companies that have added autism limit is hurtful because many chil- behavior ana- coverage, only 20 companies or dren are still diagnosed late,” said lysts has increased 60 percent to third-party administrators have Meador, who has a daughter with 189 from 118, said the Michigan De- submitted requests for funding, autism and championed autism partment of Community Health. It is said Teri Morante, the state insur- coverage for more than five years. not known, however, how many of ance department’s chief deputy di- He said companies have self- those therapists treat children rector. adopted autism coverage for a with autism spectrum disorder. Meador said he believes many number of reasons, including: Over time, Udow-Phillips said, companies decided to offer autism Ⅲ The cost to employers is rela- the number of educational train- as a benefit without plans to seek tively small — actuarial estimates ing programs in Michigan will reimbursement from the fund. are less than 0.5 percent of overall produce more therapists. Companies have two options health benefit costs — but the fi- “The problem right now is ac- when deciding to offer autism ben- nancial impact to employees with cessibility (to therapists) for fami- efits, Morante said. They either autistic children can be huge. lies,” she said. “If you can find a charge employees for the benefit Average annual costs of treat- therapist, the wait time is extreme- as part of the premium or they sub- ment are about $50,000. With ac- ly long.” mit claims to the state fund. “They cess to therapies, the average cost To encourage more autism be- can’t do both,” she said. can be cut in half. Lifetime costs havior training programs, the “Some probably just added for each child with autism are $3.2 Michigan House approved a bill autism like any other benefit they million, said a 2006 report by Har- (H.B. 5742) last month that would offer their employees,” said vard School of Public Health. Those designate up to $5.5 million of the Morante. “If you are relying on a costs translate to about $58 billion state autism fund for university state budget every year, maybe in Michigan for the estimated and family assistance programs. you are concerned if the fund will 20,000 children in the state with Last year, the Legislature ap- last,” he added. autism, including nearly 5,000 ages proved $2.5 million for university Last year, Warren-based CEC 2 to 5. program funding. Controls Co. Inc. added the autism Ⅲ National data shows the inci- Programs receiving the funds benefit as an additional rider to its dence of autism has been increas- include Eastern Michigan University, self-insured policy, said Mike ing. A report by the Centers for Dis- Oakland University, Central Michigan Sobecki, supply chain manager. ease Control and Prevention shows University, Michigan State University The benefit was offered as a re- one in every 68 children is diag- and Western Michigan University. sult of a request by current em- nosed with autism. The number is “We also probably need to run ployees to help employees who higher with boys, at 1 in 54. A pre- job ads in other states and encour- might encounter the need for the vious CDC report showed one out age Michigan’s professionals that benefit in the future, Sobecki said, of every 110 children would devel- left the state to come home now adding that the company also op a form of autism. that there are jobs,” Meador said. wanted to offer comprehensive While autism coverage has ex- Jay Greene: (313) 446-0325, coverage to employees. panded the past two years, there [email protected]. Twitter: Over two years, CEC has sub- are still too few trained behavior @jaybgreene 20141117-NEWS--0027-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 10:14 AM Page 1

November 17, 2014 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Page 27 Health Care Meridian cuts Medicare Advantage sales staff in Michigan, elsewhere

BY JAY GREENE vantage business. Since it entered Meridian’s Medicaid managed Plans, said it makes sense for insur- public relations for Michigan. CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS the Medicare managed care mar- care business totals 540,000 mem- ers to hire their own sales staff Cotton said by contracting with ket in 2012, Meridian has grown to bers and is growing at a 30 percent when first launching a product. one or two private agencies in dif- Moving to contract with private 16,500 members. annual clip under health care re- “As you mature, you can do ferent states, Meridian hopes to in- brokers for sales support, Detroit- Meridian plans to enter the Ohio form. It also operates Medicare Part some things outside,” said Mur- crease sales and improve customer based Meridian Health Plan has termi- market in January and expects to D drug prescription plans in Michi- dock. “There is a strong cadre of satisfaction. nated employment of 28 sales em- expand into other states in the next gan, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois. (private) insurance agents out “It didn’t work out (large ployees for its fledgling Medicare several years, said Mike Stines, Despite the performance-based there. They can do marketing and Medicare sales department) on Advantage managed care products Meridian’s general counsel. job terminations in Medicare business (for health plans) and cre- practically every level: financial, in Michigan, Illinois and Iowa. “Our core business is Medicaid, sales, Stines said Meridian contin- ate cost savings along the way.” compliance, sales,” Cotton said. “The industry is going away from but we are moving into Medicare ues to hire employees in other de- For example, United Healthcare “We were not getting the amount of internal sales staff and are more of- very quickly,” said Stines, adding partments. Meridian employs in Michigan uses a mix of employ- sales (we want) based on what we ten using outside agencies,” said that Meridian has contracts with about 920 and expects to grow to ees and private outside sales are paying (in salaries).” Jon Cotton, Meridian’s president Michigan and Illinois to manage 2,000 by 2019, Cotton said. agents and brokers to sell its Jay Greene: (313) 446-0325, and COO. “The quality is not good, nearly 8,000 people who are dually Rick Murdock, executive director Medicare Advantage plans, said [email protected]. Twitter: and it is easier to have a third party” eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. of the Michigan Association of Health Tony Marusic, United’s director of @jaybgreene sell Medicare insurance products. But Cotton said Meridian will keep its top three sales employees in each state and is fully committed to expanding its Medicare Ad-

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CRAIN'S LIST: LARGEST MICHIGAN HOSPITAL COMPANIES Ranked by 2013 revenue

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Coming up from Marketing & Sales Executives of Detroit (MSED) 21st Annual Awards Gala The MSED Annual Awards Gala recognizes the marketing and sales elite. It salutes those companies and individuals who have gone the extra mile; who are unafraid to challenge paradigms; and, who have the courage to pioneer. Join executives who are making a

difference in our region for a formal, but not NATHAN SKID/CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS stuffy, evening of networking, great food and Achatz Handmade Pie Co. co-founder Wendy Achatz is eager to "focus on pie and new research and development for flavors" now that her Chesterfield Township-based company has entered into a franchise agreement. celebration. This year’s honorees are MSED Executive Leadership Award: John Rakolta, Jr., Walbridge; MSED Trailblazer Award: Toby Barlow, Team Detroit; Herb Everss Lifetime Piece of the action: Achatz Pie Co. Achievement Award: Joseph Anderson, Jr., TAG Holdings and the MSED Platinum Award Recipients November 20 • 6-10:30 p.m. ready to grow by offering franchises The Detroit Athletic Club, 241 Madison Avenue, Detroit BY NATALIE BRODA baked on site. product is key. You don’t want to SPECIAL TO CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Mary Chapman, senior director buy a pie one month and have lots Members: $160; Non-Members: $195; of product innovation for Chicago- of berries in it, and then the next Tables of 8 are available For the last 20 years, Achatz based food and food service re- month buy one and it’s all Registration: msedetroit.org or call Meeting Handmade Pie Co. owner Wendy search consulting firm Technomic, syrupy,” Nakfoor said. Achatz has filed away the names of Coordinators at (248) 643-6590 said there are benefits and pitfalls Nakfoor said he believes an or- those who told her they would like to the Achatz plan. ganic growth and marketing strat- to own a franchise of the Chester- “The benefit is that they’re turn- egy might work for the new pie Professional Development Seminar: field Township-based pie-maker — ing it over to a smart guy who company, but owner and franchise Networking 2.0 from all over the country. knows how to grow a company and placement specialist Mark Cory of FRUSTRATED by the mediocre results of your Now, that soon could become get the right deals,” Chapman Grosse Pointe-based FranNet,a possible. networking efforts? UPSET with all the said. “But their customer service, franchise consulting service, had a Achatz and her husband, David, their friendly staff and operations different opinion. contacts and business cards you’ve received also an owner, have sold the fran- of the store itself, they would lose “I think that it could be really that haven’t turned into meetings? chising rights for the company for control of those elements. I’m sure tough just selling a single item, es- CONCERNED you won’t know what to say an undisclosed amount to Kevin (Sirois) is taking that into account, pecially because it isn’t a house- Sirois, COO of The Handmade Pie when you ﬁ nally meet one of your top but it’s out of the hands of the peo- hold name at this point. The initial Co. LLC. Kevin’s father, Keith ple who love this company the marketing efforts have to be quite targeted prospects? Networking is still one of Sirois, CEO of Warren-based Big most.” elaborate and extensive over a the best ways to meet new people and com- Boy Restaurants International, and Chapman also said she believes fairly long period of time in order panies – and develop future opportunities. David Crawford, Big Boy senior there is danger in beginning a to establish brand awareness and vice president for marketing, are Learning how to be an effective networker franchise with a narrow focus. create demand,” Corey said. also investors. “We’ve seen the come and fall of But that isn’t Achatz’s responsi- and properly work a room will pay big “Our customers have asked for the cupcake craze, not that there bility anymore. Instead, she and dividends. Speaker: Gerry Weinberg, years if they could buy a franchise, isn’t a wonderful business in sell- her employees will have a sole fo- president, Gerry Weinberg & Associates/ and I’m thinking it’s about time we ing cupcakes, but maybe not only cus on the product. really start listening,” Achatz said. selling cupcakes. Maybe if it was a “What’s exciting to Dave and me Sandler Training “When we’re selling pies to other full-service sweets bakery, they is that all the pies will have to be December 5 • 8-10:30 a.m. grocers, at any minute we can get could attract more occasions,” bought out of our bakehouse,” Management Education Center, kicked out if another pie-maker Chapman said. Achatz said. “Customer demand 811 W. Square Lake Road, Troy comes along. So we thought: ‘How Kevin Sirois, who had been a is high here. We’re strong. But we do we keep ourselves employed?’ manager of marketing analysis for need to grow in places like Grand Members: $35; Non-Members: $50 We’ve got 150 employees we worry Checkers for 10 years, will operate Rapids; we need to open our own Registration: msedetroit.org or call Meeting about.” the brand as The Handmade Pie little pie shops. With (this fran- Coordinators at (248) 643-6590 Achatz said she and her husband Co. or, in some locations, as The chise deal), we can move for- never felt confident in their ability Handmade Pie Co. by Achatz. ward.” CEED Microloan Programs to launch a franchise from scratch, The company has kiosks open in There will be a small royalty fee until they met Sirois and Craw- Great Lakes Crossing in Auburn paid to Achatz Handmade Pie for CEED has made $5.5 million in loans and ford. Hills, Laurel Park Place in Livonia each franchise location. The fran- created more than 1,800 jobs. Now, after 30 “We weren’t interested in fran- and Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi. Tam- chise disclosure statement is not years of providing access to capital, CEED is chising or going nationwide; we pa-based Handmade Pie plans to yet available. increasing their commitment to small love Michigan, plus my husband add 150 locations in the next five The Handmade Pie Co.’s first and I are not experts in the fran- years, according to a news re- brick-and-mortar store will open business by reducing their interest rate. chise business,” Achatz said. “But lease. by spring of 2015 in Novi, Sirois Loans up to $50,000 are offered at a 5% our personalities meshed, and “The mall kiosks are doing well, said. A location is yet to be deter- ﬁ xed rate for equipment, inventory, supplies they have a slew of experience.” there’s a high level of interest, and mined. and some working capital. Sirois will handle all legalities, it’s a new trade area for the brand. As the Achatz company transi- hiring, staffing and locations — We could potentially move for- tions over the next year to supply- To learn more and register for an upcoming anything and everything that ward with kiosks in our plan, but ing pies instead of managing loan orientation: miceed.org or doesn’t have to do with making the it’s too soon to make any judg- stores, Wendy Achatz is also tran- (734) 677-1400 product itself, Achatz said. ments,” Sirois said. sitioning into a new role as chief Achatz Pie, which expects about Ed Nakfoor, a Birmingham retail creative officer. $10 million in sales this year, will consultant, said he is curious to “I’m excited to focus on pie and For more local events, visit Crain’s Executive Calendar at supply the pies for all locations. see what happens with the new new research and development for crainsdetroit.com/executivecalendar Pies that need to travel long dis- brick-and-mortar locations. flavors,” Achatz said. “And to tances will be frozen uncooked and “Maintaining quality of the loosen the bootstraps a little bit.” 20141117-NEWS--0031-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 11:01 AM Page 1

November 17, 2014 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Page 31 $20M renovation, branding to take stage at Pontiac’s Strand Theatre

BY KIRK PINHO CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS

The former Strand Theatre in downtown Pontiac is expected to open in the fourth quarter next year following a $20 million renovation and rebranding as The Strand The- atre for the Performing Arts. Encore Performing Arts Center, a nonprofit with pending 501(c)(3) status from the Internal Revenue Service, has been named as the theater’s operations and business manager. Bill Lee, former vice president of Celebrity Events Group and vice president of sales and marketing for Olympia Entertain- ment Inc., has been hired as the TDG ARCHITECTS nonprofit’s president and CEO. Developers plan to refurbish the Strand Theatre into The Strand Theatre for the Pontiac-based TDG Architects is Performing Arts, an 838-seat facility that it hopes will serve as an entertainment the architecture firm on the project. center in downtown Pontiac and act as a catalyst to spark further growth. The 38,000-square-foot theater, at 12 N. Saginaw St., will feature Lee, 52, said he was drawn to the sion, I thought, ‘Wow, this is exact- 838 seats and host events such as job because of the renovated the- ly what this market needs,’ ” Lee concerts, live theater, comedy ater’s potential impact on the com- said, adding that people in the 35- shows, films, and community and munity. and-older demographic “will pay a private events. “When I saw the plan and the vi- premium to see a top act in a small setting.” The project will also include 6,000 square feet of restaurant space, said Kyle West- I berg, presi- “ dent and CEO thought, of Pontiac- based West ‘Wow, this Construction Services, the is exactly redeveloper. The renova- what this tion will be funded with a market combination of grants, tax needs.’ credits, pri- ” vate equity Bill Lee, Encore and donations, according to a news release. Westberg said he expects to use federal historic tax credits and funding from the Community Re- vitalization Program through the Michigan Economic Development Corp. The project still needs about $3.5 million, a gap expected to be plugged by the end of the year through donations, Westberg said. It is part of an ongoing $5 million fundraising drive, with the remaining $1.5 million going toward start- up and operations costs of Encore Performing Arts, Westberg said. The building was purchased in 2013 by Strand Theater Manager LLC, an entity of which Westberg and his brother, Brent Westberg, own 98 percent. The city of Pontiac owns the other 2 percent, he said. West Construction is also the redeveloper of the former Sears, Roe- buck & Co. department store into Lafayette Place, which features 46 loft apartments, the Lafayette Mar- ket and Anytime Fitness at 154 N. Saginaw. The Strand Theatre has been the subject of proposed renovations dating to at least 1999 after the city took ownership of it following a court battle with its previous owner. None came to fruition. Kirk Pinho: (313) 446-0412, [email protected]. Twitter: @kirkpinhoCDB 20141117-NEWS--0032-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 10:13 AM Page 1

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Web- Hospital, Farmington Hills, from direc- TECHNOLOGY epoxy pipe-lining company, has site: ziebart.com. tor of diagnostic imaging services. and learning, University of Michigan- Steinbichler Vision Systems Inc., Ply- Blake Nicholson to vice president of been awarded a contract by Colasanti Also, Narendra Sanath-Kumar to vice Dearborn. mouth, a manufacturer and suppli- data and product insights, Seelio Inc., Construction Services Inc., Detroit, to president, from director of physical Shawn O’Brien to vice president of fi- video-inspect and conduct high er of 3-D scanning technology, has medicine and rehabilitation. Ann Arbor, from head of people ana- lytics, Facebook Inc., Menlo Park, nance, Delphinus Medical Technologies pressure water jet existing sanitary introduced an updated and re- Calif. 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November 17, 2014 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Page 33 Emagine: Theaters to open by spring in Macomb, Birmingham ■ From Page 3 Canton Township, Novi, Rochester Hayes roads. ordinance for the Macomb theater But it will include a subscription based PCCP LLC purchased the fore- Hills, Royal Oak and Woodhaven. It Emagine is investing more than and a liquor license, Glantz said. model, offering annual single or closure rights to the 87-acre site. also operates the Cinema Hollywood $10 million in the site, including the The theater is set to open to the pub- family memberships. He didn’t yet The JV plans to foreclose on the in Birch Run and Clio Square Cinema $2.2 million to purchase the 5-acre lic Dec. 19, following a charity have pricing. property within a year and is deter- in Clio. property, building, parking lot, fundraiser on Dec. 18 to benefit Vari- Members would be allowed to mining the best use. Earlier plans to establish theaters lighting and established landscap- ety — the Children’s Charity and the Ma- bring guests, Glantz said, and unac- Emagine met with Redico in early in St. Clair Shores and Roseville did- ing, Glantz said. comb Township Community Foundation. companied preteens and teens November to discuss locating a the- n’t pan out. But The purchase price equates to would be welcome as long as their ater there again, Glantz said. the market in about $40 per square foot, he said. parents are members. Birmingham location Focusing on amenities like reclin- northern Ma- Fifteen-foot excavators arrived at In return for their annual mem- ers and full bars “is bringing people comb County is the property in September, after Emagine signed a long-term lease bership, subscribers would be able back out to the movie theater,” said “extraordinarily Emagine secured site plan approval. agreement with an affiliate of A.F. to purchase tickets through a pass- Ryan Noonan, director of corporate favorable,” They are busy removing dirt from Jonna Development and Management word-protected website. communications for AMC. It’s Glantz said, with within the former store’s walls to Co. late last week to operate a bou- “The thought is to make it semi- average house- create stadium seating. Columns tique five-screen movie theater on private,” Glantz said. something the Kansas City-based chain is focusing on at its locations hold income of are also being moved to create nine what is now the third floor of the Tickets will also be made avail- $90,000 in the 50-foot-wide auditoriums in the Palladium at 202 N. Old Woodward able to guests of the Townsend Hotel across the country, he said. trade area sur- Local operators also pointed to Glantz building, Glantz said. Ave. in Birmingham. and the city’s white-tablecloth rounding it. Among them will be an Emagine The theater, which had been oper- restaurants, he said. the benefits of a location with close Emagine defines its trade area as “E-Max” auditorium featuring a ated by Bloomfield Hills-based “There are a lot of synergies to proximity to other entertainment halfway between the theater and the floor-to-ceiling screen and Dolby At- Cloud Nine Theater Partners LLC,, closed having a great movie theater to sup- offerings. next closest theaters, which are MJR mos immersive sound system. In ad- on Labor Day, following the March port the restaurants,” and vice ver- MJR’s Partridge Creek location Partridge Creek Digital Cinema 14 to dition, power recliner chairs made sale of the Palladium building to sa, Glantz said. fares well as part of what it sees as a the southeast, MJR Chesterfield Cross- by First Class Seating in Zeeland will Bloomfield Hills-based A.F. Jonna. destination location, said Dennis ing Digital Cinema 16 to the east, inde- be equipped to allow patrons to snap The developer is converting it into Industry trends Redmer, vice president of opera- pendent Romeo Theatre to the north their food trays onto the arm rest to condominiums and offices, along tions at Bloomfield Hills-based MJR and AMC Forum 30 at M-59 and create a TV tray in front of them. with the revamped theater via the Glantz is looking for the same Theatres Inc. Mound Road to the southwest. Emagine Macomb will also in- lease with Emagine. cross-pollination at the Bloomfield “I think (Emagine will) do fine, The same area is expected to see clude a cocktail bar and in-theater The Palladium, a large mixed-use Park development, he said, as he and we’ll continue to do fine,” given population growth of more than 10 dining with specialties from Ply- property on Old Woodward near once again considers locating a the- the demand from moviegoers, he percent during the next four years, mouth’s Ironwood Grill. New food op- Hamilton, was built in 2001 by The ater at the site along Square Lake said. Glantz said, pointing to data from tions include a build-your-own pizza Related Cos. and sold a few years lat- and Telegraph roads at the Bloom- DemographicsNow. station and frozen desserts station. er. Tower Construction, an affiliate of field Township and Pontiac border. There are a lot of expected block- Add to that the low occupancy Bloomfield Hills-based Tower Con- A.F. Jonna, will build out the space; Emagine had proposed a 10- buster movies coming out in the cost for the project, and Glantz said struction LLC is the contractor for the several million dollars of tenant im- screen theater at the site before con- coming year, so “2015 looks really he was sold on locating his first Ma- Macomb site, and Indianapolis- provements are planned. struction on the development was good,” he said. comb County theater within the based Studio 3 Design Inc. is project Glantz said he’s not yet sure if the halted six years ago. Last month, a Sherri Welch: (313) 446-1694, confines of a 53,000-square-foot for- architect. theater will operate as Emagine Pal- joint venture between Southfield- [email protected]. Twitter: mer Kroger Co. store at 23 Mile and Emagine has secured its parking ladium or Emagine Birmingham. based Redico LLC and California- @sherriwelch REAL ESTATE MARKET PLACE

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Page 34 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS November 17, 2014 Bus: Proposed route’s downtown connections spark concerns ■ From Page 1 “We need to get people to the door of their office,” said Ander- ISSUE 1 VITAL STATS ON BRT POPULATION STATS ALONG ROUTE son, who was part of the team that Some key elements in the The new Woodward Avenue bus created the feasibility study for the The proposed rapid transit Woodward Avenue Rapid Transit rapid transit study examined M-1 Rail streetcar project now un- bus service splits into a loop Alternatives Analysis Locally population, income data, car der construction on Woodward off of Woodward, using Cass Preferred Alternative study: ownership and jobs along the route. Avenue and John R. Avenue. He now works for the U.S. Ⅲ 44 potential stops were The population within a mile of Patent Office in Virginia. considered, and 26 are used in the Woodward for the entire route is More stops could be added, said Grand study’s final preferred route choice. 266,793, based on the 2010 Carmine Palombo, deputy execu- Grand Blvd./ Grand Blvd./ Ⅲ A possible off-route option takes census, with the most living in tive director of the Southeast Michi- Amtrak Station John R Station the BRT into downtown Berkley. Detroit (87,176) and the fewest in gan Council of Governments regional Ⅲ Communities involved in the Pleasant Ridge (2,526). planning agency. Amtrak study were Detroit, Highland Park, Of the 11 communities in the “This process is a winnowing- Ferndale, Pleasant Ridge, Royal study, only Huntington Woods and Birmingham gained population from down process. No final decisions I-94 Oak, Huntington Woods, Berkley, Birmingham, Bloomfield Township, 2009-10. have been made yet. Stations iden- Bloomfield Hills and Pontiac. The study also used population tified right now are not done deals. State Wayne Ⅲ All route options fell into a one-way data to get a sense of how many DIA They’re circles on a map at this University time range of 66 to 73 minutes. people live along the route and point,” Palombo said. Warren/Cass Station Warren/John R Station Ⅲ The daily ridership estimate for don’t own a car: There are 23,361 The route could add a couple more Warren the route is 39,333, called “trips” zero-car households in the downtown stops, and be extended to in the study. That would be among Woodward corridor, 75 percent of the Renaissance Center, he said. the 190,665 total trips on which are in Detroit and Highland

SEMCOG, which will meet with DMC Woodward that also include the Park, the report said. Cass John R federal transit officials later this Woodward DDOT, SMART and M-1 Rail An additional 57,567 are single-car Mack/Cass Station Mack/John R Station month to discuss the BRT plan, is in streetcar trips. The report says households. Mack the process of transferring the pro- there are 164,409 daily trips made Income data also was used to ject to the Regional Transit Authority of now by transit users on Woodward. gauge potential BRT users. Ⅲ BRT vehicles are standard 40-foot There are 75,979 people below Southeast Michigan. The RTA will Temple/Cass Station Alfred/John seek a regional tax in November R Station vehicles or 60-foot articulated the poverty level within the 2016 to operate the line, and if that models. Woodward corridor, representing Future Red Alfred 24 percent of the corridor’s total and federal capital funding are ap- Ⅲ The full study can be found at Wings arena woodwardanalysis.com. population, the report said. The proved, the line could be underway highest concentrations of persons by 2018 or 2019, Palombo said. in poverty are in Detroit, Highland Ford I-75 along the route. Field Park and Pontiac. Grand Circus Park Station A solution Adams Theaters Also worried ward until it reaches the Fisher Anderson’s downtown solution Comerica Freeway is a better option, she Rosa Park Concern over the study’s route is to have the BRT become a regu- said. It would make more sense to lar, non-rapid line downtown, and Parks and stop choices also was expressed Michigan Ave. Transit ISSUE 2 split the line elsewhere because of use the same stops now served by by Megan Owens, executive direc- Center The proposed route has the narrow roadway at that point, Station tor of Detroit-based Transportation the Suburban Mobility Authority for only two downtown she said. Riders United, an organization dedi- Regional Transportation bus system. Detroit stops: the Rosa The split onto Cass and John R cated to improving and promoting “Just follow the SMART routes in Parks Transit Center and does have it advocates. transportation access and mobility and out of the downtown. It solves Grand Circus Park. “I don’t mind good transit on in the Detroit area. the last mile problem,” he said. Cass and Woodward, either. John She echoed Anderson’s worry Getting people to their jobs is a R is one of my favorite streets,” that the preferred option has just key justification for the BRT route, said Marie Donigan, a former state two downtown stops, and that lim- so the report examined the em- representative, transit advocate its its ultimate utility as a rapid ployment along Woodward. and partner at Royal Oak-based Tracking transportation plans transit line to the heart of Detroit’s “There are 232,563 jobs along the Donigan McLogan Consultants LLC. business district. entire Woodward corridor with The idea of a bus rapid transit vor of a regional high-speed bus “It has a lot of hospitals and cul- Requiring downtown com- the highest concentration of jobs system in metro Detroit has been system proposed by Gov. Rick tural institutions that have been muters to walk many blocks and being in Detroit’s central business floated for some time. Snyder with backing from then- underserved by transit for so long. use the People Mover to get to and district and Midtown district.” In 2008, it was an element of a Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and the The BRT will stimulate some real- from the BRT stop at the Rosa The largest employers along the proposed $10 billion, 25-year federal government. That idea ly great development. And Cass be- Parks Transit Center will hurt po- route are in Detroit: Detroit Medical build-as-needed plan for im- was a 110-mile, 23-stop rapid tran- tween Midtown and downtown has tential ridership, she said. Center (11,491 employees); city of proved and expanded bus service, sit regional bus system in some serious potential and can “Research shows that the more Detroit (9,591); Quicken Loans Inc. light rail and commuter trains Wayne, Oakland and Macomb only be enhanced by the addition people you can give a one-seat (9,192); and Henry Ford Hospital over 406 miles in Wayne, Oakland counties using Gratiot, Wood- of BRT.” ride, ridership goes up substantial- (8,807). The next largest employer and Macomb counties, along with ward and Michigan avenues. ly,” she said. “If they have to drive, in the corridor is Royal Oak’s Beau- suggestions for a governance plan The M-1 Rail streetcar project get off at Rosa Parks, and use the mont Hospital (7,812) — the only em- and likely funding options. had been absorbed by the DDOT The cost People Mover, I think that would ployer along the route outside of The proposal, created by then- rail project by 2011, but after the While the study doesn’t address really cut down on usage.” Detroit with 500 or more jobs. regional transit czar John Hertel, city’s plan died because Detroit’s dollars, Palombo said BRT lines The route splitting away from The report, published Oct. 28, is didn’t get much traction. finances had collapsed, the pri- typically cost $15 million to $25 Woodward downtown is more wor- the result of two-year study to de- Instead, rail got all the interest. vately backed M-1 project extricat- million per mile, meaning the risome, she said. termine the best options for a The M-1 Rail streetcar project ed itself as a standalone effort Woodward project could range Woodward BRT route before the for a 3.3-mile stretch of Woodward again. It began construction in “That section south from Grand from $405 million to $675 million. project advances into the federal Avenue in Detroit was hatched in July of the $137 million, 3.3-mile Boulevard is my bigger concern be- The majority of that cost would environmental study phase and 2007. At the same time, the Detroit Woodward line, which is expected cause that all is shared traffic. It come from federal grants. funding phases, and it was com- wouldn’t be rapid at that point. It Department of Transportation was to be operational by the end of Anderson said the no-frills BRT missioned by SEMCOG. would travel with the speed of traf- developing a commuter rail plan 2016. line without physically separated fic,” Owens said. “If they move it to Additionally, more detailed that was almost three times as The 110-mile regional BRT line lanes can be done for the low tens Cass and John R, it moves pretty studies of the BRT route and stops long as M-1’s proposal. could happen, with the Wood- of millions overall. will have to be done as the plan ad- slowly. There is a lot of pedestrian However, the $528 million, 9.3- ward route now being studied as What will drive costs, Anderson vances, and none of the details in traffic. Putting so-called rapid tran- mile DDOT light rail plan was the first main artery. said, is whether organizers simply the SEMCOG report are final. sit along Cass or John R doesn’t scrapped in December 2011 in fa- — Bill Shea opt to use painted bus-only lanes, make sense to me.” The options examined in the or choose to build lanes separated BRT study for downtown routes Owens, who praised the report by concrete barriers — a far more make it clear the line is seeking to ate much like a rail line, with spe- town stations could be shared with overall, is vice chairman of the expensive option. avoid mixing with the M-1 Rail RTA’s citizen’s advisory commit- cialized train-like wheeled vehicles the new streetcar system. Cleveland’s RTA built a 6.8-mile streetcar line on the most southern, tee, and she said that group will be with dedicated lanes, priority traf- SEMCOG is doing the BRT plan bus rapid transit line linking its narrowest stretch of Woodward. discussing the downtown BRT fic signaling, and higher speeds. because it has determined that downtown and East Cleveland on route at an upcoming meeting. “Alternatives that improved our BRT lines are cheaper to build transit improvements must be high-traffic Euclid Avenue at a cost speed and got us more riders were than train lines. made along the 27 miles of Wood- “If this region and this city are of $200 million, and it uses dedicat- looked at more favorably,” Palom- The Woodward line, as recom- ward — one of the region’s main really committed to supporting ed lanes physically separated from bo said. mended in the new report, has 26 transit routes since the pre-colo- transit and providing real rapid traffic. The 58-station RTA Health- stops, takes about an hour to trav- nial era — to bolster mobility and transit connection, we need to keep Line began service in 2008 and sees el the entire length, and would run access to jobs, connect people with our main road, Woodward, a main more than 14,000 riders daily on av- What is BRT? in a separate median lane with destinations along the corridor, transit thoroughfare,” Owens said. Under a BRT system, buses oper- passenger stations. Some down- and to fuel economic development Keeping the BRT line on Wood- See Next Page 20141117-NEWS--0034,0035-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 5:52 PM Page 2

November 17, 2014 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Page 35 Event offers biz chance Curbside recycling gets go-ahead from city

to hear new transit boss BY AMY HAIMERL CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS A upcoming business-oriented transit summit will introduce Michael Ford, the Last February, a joyous cry rang out new CEO of the Regional Transit Authority of across the city of Detroit from its contin- Southeast Michigan, to local business, civic gent of recyclers and eco-advocates. Curb- and religious leaders. side recycling was rolling out citywide — “Build Transit, Build finally! Business” is a free event But as the weather has turned from po- scheduled for 8:15-11 lar vortex to cherry blossoms to the hazy a.m. Nov. 18 at Ford days of summer and now to the first flakes Field. The RTA is ex- of winter, curbside service still has not ar- pected to seek a regional rived. Instead, recyclers continue to haul transit tax in 2016. their pizza boxes and Pepsi liters to Recycle The summit also will Here, a nonprofit drop-off facility started include leaders from lo- seven years ago. cal colleges, hospitals “I think the frustration you are hearing and business. Ford is that people have been waiting for this for Additionally, Jason 30 years,” said Gary Jordan, director of the Washington, D.C.- Brown, the city’s group based Center for Transportation Excellence, executive for opera- will speak about trends in transit plan- tions. “The important ning, ballot issues, messaging, champions thing now is that we get and transit campaign best practices. it rolled out, we get peo- The summit is a product of the Metro ple the information, and Coalition of Congregations of the Detroit- we get everyone who based Harriet Tubman Center. Eight churches wants to recycle recy- in Oakland and Macomb counties make up cling.” the MCC. Last February, Emer- Brown Those interested in attending must gency Manager Kevyn RSVP through tubmanorganizing.org. Orr outsourced the city’s garbage collec- tion, splitting the city among two contractors: Florida based-Advanced Disposal Inc. on the west side and Sterling Heights- based Rizzo Environmental Services Inc. on From Previous Page the east side. As part of the deal, the haulers agreed to pick up trash between erage. the hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., unlike in In December 2012, the Detroit BRT steering previous days when the garbage trucks committee visited Cleveland to study the rolled down the streets at any hour — city RTA HealthLine, which uses 16 articulated workers thwarted by broken-down equip- Top: For the buses (capacity of 47 sitting and 53 standees) ment and staffing struggles. past seven servicing 58 stations. The two vendors also agreed to bulk pick years, Detroit Also added to the project’s cost will be en- up every other week and to invest heavily residents have brought their tire new lanes required to solve some of in new trucks and equipment. Finally, Woodward’s current interchange congestion recyclables to they committed to provide single-stream this 300,000- problems that would be made unbearable curbside recycling within 90 days of square-foot with a lane lost to BRT. garbage service starting. And that’s for the warehouse. The study predicts that additional lanes entire city, not just those who live in pilot Left: A Detroit would have to be added on Woodward at areas where the city has been testing a re- resident brings Catalpa, Adams, Quarton and Square Lake in cycling program since 2010. in recyclables. Oakland County. In early summer, residents received a PHOTOS BY ANTHONY BARCHOCK letter and brochure from Advanced and Rizzo advising them about their new trash line,” said Joe Munem, director of govern- city wanted to make it an opt-in system and The process ment affairs and public relations for Rizzo. make people pay for the carts so they save service and explaining that recycling “We can’t proceed until the city tells us money.” The wordy formal title of the study is the would be coming. It also delivered the we’re good to go.” Still, both haulers promised Detroit City Woodward Avenue Rapid Transit Alterna- news that residents must opt in and pay They have the go-ahead now and expect Council they would spend approximately tives Analysis Locally Preferred Alternative, $25 to buy a 64-gallon recycling bin, unlike to be sending out brochures and packets of $300,000 per year on education and out- and it was created at the behest of SEMCOG as in Ann Arbor, where they are provided for information to residents as early as next reach related to recycling. That includes part of the regional planning agency’s transit free, or the northern suburbs where they week. Service could start in early Decem- printing material, paying for staff and im- improvement effort. range from between $10 and $12. ber. plementing an incentive program — essen- The report is a required stepping stone to The plan, Brown said, was to have the re- So how many homes outside the pilot tially coupons for those who sign up for re- begin the federal environmental study needed cycling in place by fall. But then the epic area are participating? Al Jordan, a con- cycling. before the Federal Transit Administration can Aug. 11 rainstorm hit and flooded out the sultant with Rizzo, said just 200-300 homes Mayor Mike Duggan’s spokesman John consider awarding any funding — a process city and brought in the Federal Emergency have signed up and paid for a recycling Roach says the city is also planning to that can take years and isn’t guaranteed to Management Agency. trigger money from Washington. bin out of 90,000 households in its service work with the “recycling community” to “It was never my expectation to have the Federal money typically covers 50 percent area. do education and outreach in order to full program rolled out until the fall of this to 80 percent of such projects, with the re- Rizzo claims that its numbers are lower “boost enrollment.” Those conversations year,” Brown said. “That is the time we mainder coming from state and local sources. than Advance’s because Advance started are expected to start in force this week. would have really ramped up. The storm Before the project can get in line for federal with a higher number of recyclers overall. That’s good news to organizations that was epic proportions. We’re still dealing money, it has to complete a mandatory envi- “We are going almost from ground zero, focus on recycling, such Green Living Sci- with the remnants.” ronmental study, something Palombo said but we are hoping to deploy tens of thou- ence, which offers recycling education will further define the route, stops and costs. sands of carts,” said Rizzo CEO Chuck Riz- through the Detroit Public Schools. He expects that to take about nine months Neighborhood differences zo Jr. “Education was not written into the con- and be done by the end of next year. tract, but the waste haulers said they were Whether you have recycling now is a SEMCOG is involved because metro De- committed to education,” said Rachel Kle- matter of geography. On the west side, new troit didn’t have an RTA until last year, and it Time for education gon, executive director of Green Living Sci- still is organizing itself. customers are being serviced. When Ad- Neither side has high sign-up rates for ence. SEMCOG is the regional planning agency vanced took over the routes from the city, the service, but there is also little incentive “We look forward to seeing that actually whose long-term plans must include trans- the company inherited 125,000 homes, in the contract. Rizzo, for example, earns happen. We’ve been actively working in portation projects before they can receive fed- 23,000 of which were enrolled in a recycling $49 million to haul the trash over the five- the schools starting recycling programs eral funding. It covers Oakland, Wayne, Ma- pilot program. It started serving them im- year contract, but recycling brings in just and the kids are asking about when they comb, Washtenaw, Livingston, Monroe and St. mediately and has since added 745 new $1.15 to $1.35 per enrolled household per will be able to start recycling at home. Clair counties. homes from outside the test zone. month. Advanced, meanwhile, will earn They are ready and excited for it.” The FTA granted SEMCOG $2 million in On the east side, however, customers $73.5 million and between 48 cents and For information or to sign up for recy- 2012 to create the study. The Detroit office of have had a different experience. There is $1.32 per household. cling, visit rizzoservices.com or advanceddis- New York City-based transportation engi- still no recycling service outside of the pi- “That’s not typical at all,” Rizzo said. posal.com neers Parsons Brinckerhoff was hired by SEM- lot zone. “What’s typical is that we would deploy the This originally appeared as an Amy COG to create the report. “We were ready to roll it out in July, but carts citywide at no cost to the residents, Haimerl blog at crainsdetroit.com. Bill Shea: (313) 446-1626, [email protected]. the city held us back because they wanted but then the reimbursement rates would be Amy Haimerl: (313) 446-0416, Twitter: @bill_shea19 to make sure they could get Advanced on- $2.50 to $4 per house. In this situation, the [email protected]. Twitter: @haimerlad 20141117-NEWS--0036-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 5:41 PM Page 1

Page 36 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS November 17, 2014 Deer: From apps to ads, hunting in Michigan yields big bucks ■ From Page 3 The majority of the spending “Participation has been on a “It has been a big thing in re- Another side increase came in non-firearms slow decline,” said Brent Rudolf, cent years to apply newer tech- categories such as outdoor equip- the DNR’s deer program leader People are nologies to hunting,” Rudolf said. Not everyone is seeing the eco- ment like tents and hunting cloth- and a research biolo- “ nomic boom. ing, and equipment such as boats gist. spending more Al Allen, owner of Double Action and vans, according to the federal He said the decline is More is coming Indoor Shooting Center and Gun Shop survey. likely because hunters on hunting and Hunting-related spending is ex- in Madison Heights, said hunting- Spending also increased on are an aging population pected to keep increasing because related firearms sales this year are things such as permits, outdoors — the baby boomers — hunting-related Madison Avenue has noticed that down 90 percent compared to past magazines, membership dues, but because they have consumers shell out an estimated years. and land leases and purchases. more disposable in- activities, such $646 billion annually on outdoors “It’s the economy. People are still The data comes from the U.S. come, the spending to- as habit activities. concerned about what’s happening Fish and Wildlife Service’s survey of tals for hunting contin- Bingham Farms-based Carbon out there,” he said. hunting, fishing and wildlife ue to rise. management. Media Group LLC, which has an ad- While hunting typically accounts recreation that it does every five “People are spending more on ” vertising network of more than for about 5 percent of his overall years. hunting and hunting-related ac- 500 hunting and outdoors web- business — Double Action mostly Nationally, 13.7 million people Brent Rudolf, tivities, such as habit manage- sites and is a producer of out- caters to home and business de- 16 or older were hunters in 2011, DNR deer program leader ment,” Rudolf said. “There is a doors content, is targeting major fense sales — the shop used to sell and they spent $38.3 billion on good number of devoted people advertisers to tap into marketing “a couple hundred” rifles and shot- their hobby. guns for deer season, Allen said. still at it, and they’re investing in stalking tactics, and ballistics aimed at hunters. The DNR said 661,788 hunters This year, it was 40 long guns, it in different ways than they and trajectory aids. One client, Farmington Hills- participated in last year’s entire and most of those were shotguns used to.” And, obviously, mobile devices based Innovation Ventures LLC, last deer season, including the sepa- since the traditional shopping sea- That includes creation of food have other utilities for hunters: a year added a camouflage bottle of rate archery and muzzle-loading son for deer hunting began Oct. 1. plots, buying vehicles for outdoor telephone, IM functions to talk to its line of 5-Hour Energy drinks. rifle periods. Allen said that’s because budget- purposes, and buying up land. other hunters, and to just pass the They’re selling them again this The number of licenses de- conscious hunters shopping at his time by scrolling social media year, and were pushing them on clined 10 percent from 2003 to last store are opting to stay below U.S. and Web pages. Twitter last week for hunters. year, the state said in its annual High-tech hunting 10, the line below which only shot- deer harvest report. One popular app is the Trimble Carbon Media CEO Hyaat Data isn’t readily available yet, guns are permitted for deer hunt- Since the 2014 license season GPS Hunt Pro from Tempe, Ariz.- Chaudhary, a 2014 Crain’s 40 un- but there is evidence hunters are ing. North of it, rifles are also per- began on March 1, more than 1 based Trimble Outdoors that sells der 40 honoree, said segments mitted. million of all types were sold spending on cutting-edge technol- for $4.99 and has hunting-orient- such as alcohol, tobacco, pharma ogy, such as apps and real-time “If they don’t have property up through Nov. 9 — with about 90 ed outdoor maps and wildlife — think Viagra, Cialis and heart cameras that track prey. north, they’re making a day trip out percent being the regular tracking features. Sales data isn’t drugs — are increasingly looking As cell and data coverage im- of it. That way, they’re not burning firearms deer permits. available, but the free version has at outdoors marketing because prove, more and more hunters are they skew heavily male. up vacation time and spending on The DNR has sold 1.5 million been downloaded 50,000 to 100,000 using their mobile devices not “It’s really trying to explain to gas and lodging,” he said. hunting permits annually since times by Android users on the 2010, and expects the final tally to only as something to pass the them, hunters and anglers are Allen expects sales, including Google Play store. reach that for this year — but pre- time, but to aid their hunt via overlooked by the larger media those related to deer hunting for The Mossy Oak Hunting dicts there could be a small de- apps. buys by the larger companies,” next year, to pick up now that the cline because of a $5 price in- There are topographical apps Weather App from Syracuse, Chaudhary said. election is over and Christmas is crease (to $20) for the deer permit. for managing hunting locations, N.Y.-based HuntLogix LLC has been Others spending on outdoors approaching. The 1.5 million includes such as where stands and blinds downloaded from the Google Play advertising through Carbon Me- “Consumer confidence will in- hunters buying multiple licenses, are located, and apps that tailor store between 100,000 and 500,000 dia include Buffalo Wild Wings, on- crease,” he said. and the total number of deer meteorological data for hunters. times for Android phones. Data line footwear giant Zappos, Home Bill Shea: (313) 446-1626, hunters in 2014 is expected to be Other apps are specialized hunt- wasn’t available for Apple de- Depot, battery maker Energizer [email protected]. Twitter: 600,000 to 700,000. ing journals, animal calls and vices. Holdings, Michelin, and Allstate. @bill_shea19

OU: Researcher’s widow bequests $3.7 million for eye institute ■ From Page 1 that they learned about it. ey is invested in things like equity of the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmol- more oxygen. ment of Nutrition at funds, fixed income funds, hedge ogy, a division of the Department That same year, Jonas the Harvard School of High-impact gift funds, real assets and private equi- of Ophthalmology at the Henry Ford Salk won the same Public Health, in 1984 ty. Health System. award for developing and relocated to “We flew out to Boston for the fu- The institute — which has re- Hessburg, who studied under the polio vaccine. Boston, continued do- neral,” said Angie Schmucker, ex- ceived about $50 million in funding Kinsey at the Kinsey’s “was the first nating to the insti- ecutive director of planned and an- from organizations such as the Kresge Eye Insti- clinical trial ever con- tute. She also support- nual giving for OU. “And then we Novi-based Vision Research ROPARD tute, said that ducted in vision and that ed other causes such get a phone call Foundation, the National Eye Institute makes any new showed definitively that as the arts, given her in September and the National Institutes of Health — findings the in- babies treated with high- background as an ac- 2013 that she had has five faculty members and focus- stitute can deer levels of oxygen devel- complished violinist. changed her will es its research on various diseases velop in re- oped retinopathy prema- An obituary for — and that there and conditions. Those include mac- search turely,” Giblin said. Kinsey Stare in the was a portion ular degeneration, glaucoma, retini- significant. “Because of Dr. Kin- Boston Globe said she didn’t tell us tis pigmentosa (a degenerative eye “They are in- sey’s status, Oakland OAKLAND UNIVERSITY she was “an enthusi- about. She left disease) and diabetic retinopathy terested primar- University was put on V. Everett Kinsey and astic supporter” of the remainder of (damage to retinal blood vessels). ily in learning Hessburg Irene Kinsey Stare. the map as far as eye re- the Detroit Symphony her estate to us, Although treatments for some the root causes of some of the most search is concerned,” Orchestra, the Boston after she made diseases like glaucoma, cataracts profound problems in ophthalmol- Schmucker Reddy said. Symphony Orchestra and the New some other char- and diabetic retinopathy have ogy,” he said. “That is really, real- Seven years earlier, Kinsey was England Conservatory of Music. itable gifts to her interests and her been discovered — and much is ly important.” also one of those responsible for the husband’s interests.” known about them — their exact Her estate gift to Oakland, Gib- creation of the National Foundation Giblin and James Lentini, se- causes are still not fully under- lin said, is all the more welcome for Eye Research in Washington, nior vice president for academic stood, said Giblin. Pioneering research because of how hard it can be to D.C., when he was a faculty mem- affairs and provost, will ultimately “We know some things, but not Kinsey was one of the premier raise funding for researchers. decide how the money is spent. everything about them,” he said. eye researchers in the country, in- ber at the Howe Laboratory of Oph- “It’s very difficult for basic scien- But Giblin said most likely the “For example, we don’t know the stitute co-founder Venkat Reddy, thalmology at the Harvard Medical tists to receive donations,” he said. $82,000 per researcher will pay for fine details of exactly how in- 92, said in a statement. This dates School. Kinsey was one of the origi- “You’ve heard the term ‘grateful things like research labs, equip- creased intraocular pressure is back to his work in the 1950s. nal trustees for the foundation, and patients’? If they receive excellent ment, and doctoral and post-doc- killing retinal ganglion cells” and In 1956, Kinsey, a biochemist, Reddy became a trustee in 1972 and treatment, their first thought is to toral assistants for them. causing glaucoma. was in esteemed company when president of the foundation in 1978. give a donation to the clinician, not Thomas LeMarbe, assistant vice Because there are still plenty of he won the Lasker Foundation Clini- Kinsey died that same year at the basic scientist that discovered president for finance and adminis- ophthalmological unknowns, mak- cal Medical Research Award for age 68 of a stroke. the drug that treated the disease.” tration, said the gift will be placed in ing much progress in preventing his research showing that inci- Following her husband’s death, Kirk Pinho: (313) 446-0412, the university’s approximately $80 eye diseases is difficult, said Philip dence of blindness in premature Kinsey Stare, who married Freder- [email protected]. Twitter: million endowment pool. This mon- Hessburg, M.D., medical director babies increased if they received ick Stare, founder of the Depart- @kirkpinhoCDB 20141117-NEWS--0037-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 11/14/2014 5:42 PM Page 1

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www.crainsdetroit.com Rush, other suppliers get tier-one help EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Keith E. Crain GROUP PUBLISHER Mary Kramer, (313) 446-0399 or [email protected] ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Marla Wise, (313) 446- BY DAVID SEDGWICK — such as Bing Group and Plastech 6032 or [email protected] EXECUTIVE EDITOR Cindy Goodaker, (313) 446- CRAIN NEWS SERVICE TOP BLACK-OWNED SUPPLIERS Engineered Products Inc. — that were 0460 or [email protected] closed or sold after falling on hard MANAGING EDITOR Jennette Smith, (313) 446- Four of the top 10 black-owned automotive suppliers are in metro Detroit, It’s hiring time at Detroit Manu- times. 1622 or [email protected] according to Black Enterprise magazine. Revenue is 2013 figures. DIRECTOR, DIGITAL STRATEGY Nancy Hanus, facturing Systems LLC. The tier-one suppliers are will- (313) 446-1621 or [email protected] On Nov. 8, the minority-owned 1. Bridgewater Interiors, MANAGING EDITOR/CUSTOM AND SPECIAL Detroit ing to play the role of big brother PROJECTS Daniel Duggan, (313) 446-0414 or supplier of interior components in part because their customers, [email protected] CEO: Ron E. Hall Sr. held the second of two job fairs to the automakers, are telling them SENIOR EDITOR/DESIGN Bob Allen, (313) 446- Revenue: $1.5 billion 0344 or [email protected] hire 200 assembly workers. to do so. SENIOR EDITOR Gary Piatek, (313) 446-0357 or 2. Modular Assembly [email protected] These are heady times for owner Moreover, Japanese automakers Innovations, Dublin, Ohio WEB EDITOR Kristin Bull, (313) 446-1608 or Andra Rush, who launched Detroit such as Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan [email protected] Manufacturing CEO: Billy Vickers. Motor Corp. have announced minori- RESEARCH AND DATA EDITOR Sonya Hill, (313) in 2012 as a 55-45 Revenue: $1.2 billion 446-0402 or [email protected] ty purchasing targets similar to WEB PRODUCER Norman Witte III, (313) 446- joint venture 3. Global Automotive Alliance, those set by the Detroit 3. And they 6059, [email protected] with Faurecia SA, Detroit EDITORIAL SUPPORT (313) 446-0419; YahNica are soliciting input from minority Crawford, (313) 446-0329 a major global CEO: Bill Pickard. groups such as Jesse Jackson’s Rain- NEWSROOM (313) 446-0329, FAX (313) 446- 1687 TIP LINE (313) 446-6766 supplier based in Revenue: $520 million bow PUSH Coalition. REPORTERS France. 4. SET Enterprises, Warren Rebecca Vest, Nissan’s North Rush, an en- CEO: Sid E. Taylor. Jay Greene, senior reporter: Covers health care, Rolls of sheet metal sit in SET Enterprises’ American purchasing chief, joined insurance, energy utilities and the environment. trepreneur who Revenue: $390 million other senior purchasing executives (313) 446-0325 or [email protected] is descended plant in Warren. The company ranks No. 4 Amy Haimerl, entrepreneurship editor: Covers 5. Millennium Steel Service, among the top 10 black-owned automotive from General Motors Co., Ford, entrepreneurship and city of Detroit. (313) 446- from the Mo- 0416 or [email protected] Rush Princeton, Ind. suppliers. Chrysler Group LLC and Toyota at hawk tribe in On- Chad Halcom: Covers litigation and the defense CEO: Henry Jackson. Revenue: Jackson’s automotive conference industry. (313) 446-6796 or [email protected] tario, got her start in the auto indus- $253 million Oct. 13 in Detroit. Tom Henderson: Covers banking, finance, try when she used her personal technology and biotechnology. (313) 446-0337 or 6. Manufacturers Industrial Group, Lexington, Tenn. Vest told attendees that Nissan [email protected] credit cards to finance her own CEO: Andre Gist. Revenue: $224 million has targeted 5 percent of its North Kirk Pinho: Covers real estate, higher education, trucking company. Oakland and Macomb counties. (313) 446-0412 or 7. Millennium Steel of Texas, San Antonio American purchasing budget for [email protected] It’s safe to say that personal minorities — up from 2.5 percent Bill Shea, enterprise editor: Covers media, credit cards would not provide suf- CEO: Henry Jackson. Revenue: $190 million advertising and marketing, the business of sports, now — and that she has set a high- and transportation. (313) 446-1626 or ficient capital for Detroit Manufac- 8. James Group International, Detroit er priority for the program. [email protected] turing, which has $700 million Dustin Walsh: Covers the business of law, auto CEO: John James. Revenue: $133 million “We have targets, we measure suppliers, manufacturing and steel. (313) 446- worth of component contracts for 9. Systems Automotive Interiors, Mantachie, Miss. (joint venture) them, and we are moving along,” 6042 or [email protected] Sherri Welch, senior reporter: Covers nonprofits, the F-150, Mustang, Focus and oth- CEO: Toni Cooley. Revenue: $110 million Vest said. “We are not where Ford services, retail and hospitality. (313) 446-1694 or er Ford models. [email protected] 10. Systems Electro Coating, Madison, Miss. (joint venture) or General Motors is, but we’re im- Which is where her joint-ven- ADVERTISING CEO: Toni Cooley. Revenue: $107 million proving every day.” ture partner comes in. Canny mi- Attendees at the PUSH confer- SALES INQUIRIES (313) 446-6052; FAX (313) nority suppliers, who typically 393-0997 path that people see right now.” gles setting up manufacturing sys- ence seemed confident that the au- SALES MANAGER Tammy Rokowski lack the global size and cutting- Rush’s joint venture with Faure- tems, but I think it’s worked out tomakers are making an effort. But SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE: Matthew J. edge research and developmentfor cia gave her access to injection quite well.” the auto industry’s boom-or-bust Langan ADVERTISING SALES Christine Galasso, Jeff competitive technology, are form- molds from a Ford factory in Access to Ford’s injection molds cycles, which Green dubs “econom- Lasser, Joe Miller, Sarah Stachowicz ing partnerships with tier-one Saline, which she transferred to limited the tooling costs, and Fau- ic Darwinism,” have wiped out CLASSIFIED SALES MANAGER Angela Schutte, companies to handle major produc- many suppliers that were thinly (313) 446-6051 her facility in Detroit. recia installed its own manufac- CLASSIFIED SALES Lynn Calcaterra, (313) 446- tion contracts. That factory handles final as- turing system, based on the Toyota capitalized. 6086 And some — such as Rush or During the recent recession, the DIGITAL MARKETING MANAGER sembly of instrument panels — Production System, and assigned Jennifer Chinn steel supplier Henry Jackson — and in some cases the entire cock- some senior executives. Michigan minority supplier coun- AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Eric Cedo have formed multiple partnerships pit — for the Ford Mustang, Focus, Rush, in turn, had previous expe- cil lost nearly half of its automo- EVENTS MANAGER Kacey Anderson with major companies. tive membership. That’s why the SENIOR PRODUCER FOR DIGITAL/ONLINE Expedition, Explorer, Taurus and rience assembling instrument pan- PRODUCTS Pierrette Dagg “Everybody needs money for Lincoln Navigator. The company els via Dakkota Integrated Systems, a survivors are eager to find part- SENIOR ART DIRECTOR Sylvia Kolaski R&D, working capital and talent,” is ramping up to assemble instru- joint venture with major supplier ners, Green said. SALES SUPPORT Suzanne Janik, YahNica Crawford said Louis Green, outgoing presi- ment panels for the redesigned Magna International Inc. “The folks growing now are the PRODUCTION MANAGER Wendy Kobylarz dent of the Michigan Minority Supplier Ford F-150. In effect, the auto industry has really smart operators,” said Green. PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR Andrew Spanos CUSTOMER SERVICE Development Council. Green, who “It’s a pretty sophisticated as- developed a buddy system of sorts “It’s hard to get enough growth or- MAIN NUMBER: Call (877) 824-9374 counts approximately 700 automo- sembly,” said Mike Heneka, presi- to work with minority suppliers. In ganically, so they are doing joint or [email protected] tive suppliers in his organization, dent of Faurecia’s North American part, that’s because the industry is ventures.” SUBSCRIPTIONS $59 one year, $98 two years. says joint ventures “are the clear unit. “There have been some strug- littered with minority-owned firms From Automotive News Out of state, $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) 446-0450 or (877) 824-9374. SINGLE COPIES: (877) 824-9374 REPRINTS: (212) 210-0750; or Alicia Samuel at [email protected] TO FIND A DATE A STORY WAS PUBLISHED: Fund:All $100M expected to be lent within 18 months (313) 446-0406 or e-mail [email protected] CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS IS PUBLISHED BY ■ From Page 3 CRAIN COMMUNICATIONS INC. CHAIRMAN Keith E. Crain and infrastructure projects, such as based businesses, many of which To assist these businesses, Bar- ing option even outside the fund. PRESIDENT Rance Crain TREASURER Mary Kay Crain the M-1 Rail and Detroit Red Wings are expected to be minority-owned. ton Malow plans to launch business The lending fees will also be cycled Executive Vice President/Operations arena projects. Ryan Maibach, president of Bar- training courses for incoming sub- back into the MMSDC. William A. Morrow Executive Vice President/Director of Strategic Drextel Amy, president of the ton Malow, said financing is im- contractors on the project, Maibach Green, who has led the MMSDC Operations Chris Crain Michigan region for New Orleans- portant, but said. The training is expected to be- since 2005, chose not to extend his Executive Vice President/Director of Corporate Operations KC Crain based Liberty Bank and Trust Co. said showing stable gin in the first quarter of 2015. contract, which expires at the end Vice President/Production & Manufacturing small businesses are left out of performance While the training is not a pre- of this year. He will serve as CEO of Dave Kamis large projects or contracts due to and securing requisite to securing a contract, a new firm he founded, Supplier Suc- Chief Financial Officer Thomas Stevens their size and that minority-owned projects of grow- Maibach hopes subcontractors cess LLC, which is focused on secur- Chief Information Officer businesses are almost always ing size are crit- will partake. Barton Malow plans ing financing for the supply chain. Anthony DiPonio G.D. Crain Jr. Founder (1885-1973) small businesses. ical for small to extend the training on future Green told Crain’s in August Mrs. G.D. Crain Jr. Chairman (1911-1996) “I don’t think they (minority busi- and minority- projects as well. that he accomplished his goals at EDITORIAL & BUSINESS OFFICES: ness entrepreneurs) have a larger owned firms For businesses to qualify for the the council, including $9 billion in 1155 Gratiot Ave., Detroit MI 48207-2732; (313) 446-6000 disadvantage than other small busi- looking to se- Minority Business access fund, they annual contracts for its members Cable address: TWX 248-221-5122 AUTNEW DET nesses; the contributing factor is the cure work on must have been operational with and a $5 million budget surplus. CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS ISSN # 0882-1992 Maibach is published weekly, except for a special issue the smaller you are, the fewer opportu- the project. But contracts for at least six months. Prior to joining the nonprofit, third week of October, and no issue the fourth week of December by Crain Communications Inc. nities there are to be involved in he also warned against over-lever- Green said the fund is expected Green held positions as national at 1155 Gratiot Ave., Detroit MI 48207-2732. large projects,” Amy said. “That aging by these companies. to exhaust the first $100 million director of supplier diversity for Periodicals postage paid at Detroit, MI and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send said, we absolutely need more fi- “Cash flow is obviously impor- within 18 months. The MMSDC General Electric Co. and NBC Televi- address changes to CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS, nancing for minority-owned busi- tant for these companies, and will oversee the fund, which will sion. He also served as the leader of Circulation Department, P.O. Box 07925, Detroit, MI 48207-9732. GST # 136760444. Printed in nesses and programs to train and there’s a lot of excitement around be led by Fred Feliciano, director supplier diversity at the University U.S.A. mentor them on larger contracts.” the arena project, but we have to of external affairs. The group will of Michigan and chief deputy direc- Entire contents copyright 2014 by Crain Communications Inc. All rights reserved. Southfield-based Barton Malow keep out eye on stability,” also hire a senior loan officer. tor for the state of Michigan under Reproduction or use of editorial content in any Co., the lead contractor for the Red Maibach said. “We want to see con- The fund will not be the only former Gov. John Engler. manner without permission is strictly prohibited. Wings arena project, will ensure sistent growth, and it’s important outlet for minority businesses Dustin Walsh: (313) 446-6042, that 51 percent of jobs and 30 perfor any business to maintain a seeking capital; the group will [email protected]. 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Page 38 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS November 17, 2014 RUMBLINGS WEEK ON THE WEB FROM WWW.CRAINSDETROIT.COM, WEEK OF NOV. 8-14 Orr spokesman to stay in Unique Fabricating Inc. plans lawyers suing General Mo- Detroit Land to raise between $14.93 mil- tors Co. over faulty ignition Bill aims to Detroit for next job lion and $17.25 million in switches and to let the Bill Nowling, most recently an initial public offering by lawyers speak with its em- the often-opulently musta- Bank executive selling 1.9 million shares at ployees in exchange for be- chioed spokesman for De- a price range of $8 per ing dropped as a defendant, troit Emergency Manager share to $10 per share. Automotive News reported. move vote for Kevyn Orr, is taking his tal- Wiener resigns Shares of Ann Arbor- The Detroit Pistons ents to the Detroit office of based Arotech Corp. fell to a rank sixth among the 30 Na- New York public relations ichard Wiener re- nine-month low to $2.52 in tional Basketball Association and marketing firm Finn signed Oct. 31 as ex- trading Tuesday after the teams for this season for fi- Oakland exec Partners Inc. R ecutive director of company announced that re- nancial fan friendliness, ac- The 48-year-old will join a the Detroit Land Bank Authori- cent gains from its $30 mil- cording to Chicago-based here is nothing like But there’s more to it, staff of about 10 downtown. ty. Wiener, who took the job lion-plus purchase of South Team Marketing Report. The the post-election sea- Dulio said. There’s a lot of “It allows me to continue in January, was replaced by Carolina-based UEC Electron- group annually surveys T son to form a new voter fatigue in presidential to be in Detroit, which is Kevin Simowski, the land ics LLC were largely offset by every team to estimate strategy for next time — es- election years, and many important to me,” he said. bank’s general counsel. expenses and delays in re- what it costs to take a fami- pecially for a political hot voters don’t even end up porting anticipated revenue. ly of four to a game; the Pis- spot like Oakland County. voting for county executive. Contest winners can party N THE MOVE Online Tech Inc. will tons’ figure was $261.20. A bill introduced in the In 2012, there were 653,000 O hold a grand opening of its U.S. Rep. John Dingell, state House last week by votes cast in the presiden- for holidays – on Andiamo Dennis Scholl, arts vice 35,000-square-foot data cen- who steps down at year’s some Republican members tial election; 620,000 were president at the Miami- ter in Westland on Dec. 2. end after the longest con- More than 1,000 area busi- of Oakland County’s delega- cast in the county executive based John S. and James L. The Ann Arbor-based data gressional tenure in U.S. nesses and organizations en- tion would require the race race, a loss of 33,000 voters. Knight Foundation, was storage firm says it invested history, will be among 19 tered a contest to win a free for county executive to be About 200,000 fewer vot- named an “observer” to the $10 million into the center. recipients this year of the holiday party from Andiamo held in midterm election ers cast ballots in this Detroit Institute of Arts board General Motors Co. is Presidential Medal of Free- years. That’s instead of year’s midterm elections in Restaurant Group and Crain’s by the group of foundations laying off 160 workers and dom, the nation’s highest presidential election years, Oakland County, according Detroit Business. contributing more than $366 trimming production at the civilian honor, President as it is currently. to unofficial results. And not just one party, million to the “grand bar- Lake Orion plant in Orion Barack Obama announced. Just how calculated is the nine parties — one from gain” that is part of Detroit’s Township, where it makes Triton Investment Co. timing of this particular each of Andiamo’s nine lo- bankruptcy plan. the Chevrolet Sonic and plans a $5 million renova- legislation? And is it meant Video game maintains cations — for a total value The Detroit Tigers Buick Verano, amid weak- tion of the former Detroit to help L. Brooks Patterson of up to $45,000. devastated 2054 cityscape agreed to a Town Apartments at 1511 extend his years of service The winners, based on es- er-than-expected demand four-year, First St., including new further, or As cities go, Detroit is a say entries, were Metropolitan for the small cars, Automo- $68 million kitchens, appliances, light- pave the media darling right now. Eye Center; Jones Lang LaSalle; tive News reported. deal to re- ing, paint and flooring in way for the But for video game develop- Cablcon; Donald K. Nanney DDS; Detroit Medical Center’s sign free- most of the 255 apartments. Republican ers, Detroit is a perpetual Macomb County Sheriff’s Office; Detroit Receiving Hospital Michigan Republicans candidate wasteland — and it sure Oakwood Healthcare; AAA Life agent desig- will open a specialized proposed a long-awaited bill positioned makes a great playground Insurance (Livonia); Lucido- nated hitter emergency department to ban discrimination as his suc- for bleak digital graphics. Morris Wealth Management; Victor Mar- with 10 private rooms for against gays, though cessor? The futuristic reboot of Michigan Department of Human tinez, 35, ac- seniors on Nov. 17. “Deus Ex: Human Revolu- cording to Southfield-based auto chances dimmed for ap- The coun- Services (Detroit); and Custom Martinez ty is becom- tion,” released on consoles Holidays. multiple supplier Federal-Mogul Corp. proval because of concerns Patterson ing friend- in 2011, pinned Detroit The holiday parties must news reports. says it will close its Okla- that transgender people lier to Democrats after against a Tale of Two Cities be used by Feb. 1, 2015, and homa City plant next year, would not be protected. years of being a Republican backdrop. Set in 2027, the are good for 50 employees. eliminating 165 jobs. Sponsored by outgoing Rep. bastion. It has placed four poor are segregated from COMPANY NEWS The University of Michi- Frank Foster of Petoskey and Democrats (Treasurer Andy the rich in a corrupt The Detroit-based Skill- gan Health System and the backed by House Speaker Meisner, Clerk/Register of dystopia ruled by a corpora- BITS & PIECES man Foundation outsourced Michigan Nurses Association Jase Bolger, the bill would Deeds Lisa Brown, Prosecu- tion, Sarif Industries. The Detroit RiverFront its chief investment officer signed a contract that pro- update state civil rights law tor Jessica Cooper and Water It doesn’t get any better Conservancy received the role to Virginia-based Inves- tects nurses who care for to include sexual orienta- Resources Commissioner in 2054, at least in the Project Honor Award for ture LLC, a national finan- Ebola patients, AP reported. tion but not — as gay-rights Jim Nash) in six of the coun- gamers’ realm. the Detroit RiverWalk from cial firm that manages $11 advocates and Democrats tywide elected spots since California-based develop- the Washington, D.C.-based billion across its portfolios. want — gender identity. 2008. ers Sledgehammer Games The Waterfront Center during The former manage- OTHER NEWS The Michigan Senate vot- added a downtrodden De- But we’re being too cyni- the organization’s 2014 Ex- ment company of the re- A crowdfunding cam- ed to more than double the troit as a locale for its popu- cal by asking about the tim- cellence on the Waterfront gion’s second-largest hotel, paign is being launched to state gasoline tax over four lar “Call of Duty: Advanced ing of the proposal, says Awards earlier this month. Adoba Hotel Dearborn/Detroit, help transform “The Wig,” years to raise at least $1 bil- Warfare” game, released on state Rep. Klint Kesto, R-Com- The awards “recognize and its Israel-based owner- the former Wigle Recreation lion to fix roads. The state’s Nov. 4. It sold more than 3.7 merce Township, House Bill high-quality design and de- ship group, Royal Realties Center in Midtown, into a per-gallon gas tax would 5953’s chief sponsor. million copies at $60-plus a velopment work in water- LLC, reached an agreement skate park. The Michigan gradually rise from the cur- He said the legislation is pop in its first week. front-related projects.” in a breach-of-contract case Economic Development Corp. rent 19 cents to 41 cents in to bring Oakland in line In “Advanced Warfare,” The Mt. Laurel, N.J.- filed by the management and Detroit-based Communi- 2018, based on the current company. Terms of the set- with Wayne and Macomb there’s a familar backstory. based Society for Information ty Push announced plans to average wholesale price. counties; both counties tlement were not released. A corporation comes into Management International re- raise $20,000 by Dec. 13. The U.S. Small Business elected their CEOs during Detroit-based Quicken power, the opposition cently gave Detroit chapter The Education Achieve- Administration approved the midterms. Loans Inc. is No. 1 in the na- launches a nuclear war, and member Stephen Pickett, ment Authority board ap- more than $61 million in dis- “All three counties are tion in mortgage customer destruction ensues. CIO and senior vice presi- proved a $325,000 annual aster assistance loans for tied very closely in jobs, the satisfaction, according to In Sledgehammer’s De- dent at Bloomfield Hills- base salary for Veronica Michigan businesses and economy, economic J.D. Power survey results. troit level, bombed-out build- based Penske Corp., its SIM Conforme, its newly hired residents affected by August growth,” Kesto said. “It A Granite City Food & ings and garbage are every- Leader of the Year award. It permanent chancellor. flooding. Deadline for loan would be helpful to the elec- Brewery Ltd. restaurant is set where. In fact, there’s very recognizes a member who Oakland County’s applications is Nov. 24. torate to say, ‘You three little resemblance of the De- has “contributed to the open in the Renaissance Legislation proposed by candidates, how would you Center next October. Con- wellness program has troit we know — save a faint growth, advancement, and saved the county $14 mil- state Rep. Pete Lund, R-Shel- work with the candidate for image of what might be the excellence of SIM at the lo- struction is expected to start by Township, seeks to divide CEO in Macomb and Wayne in January; the build-out is lion over seven years, said Renaissance Center and a cal, national and/or inter- presidential candidates’ together?’ ” estimated at $9 million. Nancy Scarlet, the county’s People Mover-like monorail. national levels.” electoral votes in Michigan Kesto also said presiden- Supino Pizzeria owner human resources director. proportionally, AP reported. tial elections drown out oth- David Mancini said his new The Southfield-based Michigan Department of er races, including those for 1,000-square-foot Detroit Presbyterian Villages of Education officials said pub- Oakland County executive. restaurant, La Rondinella, Michigan Foundation re- lic school students in the While Patterson, the coun- will open in January. ceived a $5 million grant — ty’s longtime Republican UnitedHealthcare Group the largest in its history — state will take the new M- CEO, “can win for as long as in Michigan will close its from the Edward N. and Della STEP standardized test in he wants to keep running,” Medicare Advantage dual L. 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