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20150420-NEWS--0001-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 4/17/2015 5:06 PM Page 1 Readers first for 30 Years Zoo’s CRAIN’S formula for DETROIT BUSINESS April 20-26,2015 producing New rules for Detroit City FC Tech firm its power: nonprofits: kicks it up, helps Ford E = e-a-t Lots of them aims to go pro build a bike PAGE 3 PAGE 3 PAGE 3 Page 4 ISTOCK PHOTO ISTOCK Investors plan to revive the Brewster Wheeler site On the beam for with retail and housing, but developers also see potential not far away cancer treatment McLaren, Beaumont to open proton centers By Jay Greene Why proton beams? [email protected] Seven years after fierce battles over Proton beam therapy is a type the need for multiple proton beam of radiation treatment that cancer centers, McLaren Health Care uses protons rather than X- Corp. this spring expects to open the rays to treat cancer. A proton first proton beam therapy center in is a positively charged particle Michigan, next to its 458-bed Mc- that is part of an atom. At Laren Regional Medical Center in Flint. high energy, protons can McLaren officials told Crain’s destroy cancer cells. they hope to conduct their first In 1990, hospitals in the U.S. treatment on a prostate cancer pa- began using proton beams to tient in one of the three rooms that treat patients. But the method are part of the $50 million McLaren is controversial because of a Proton Therapy Center. lack of definitive clinical trials. But Troy-based Beaumont Health, Unlike traditional radiation which first proposed a $159 million treatment, which can damage proton beam center in 2008, isn’t far surrounding tissue, proton [LARRY PEPLIN PHOTOS] behind. Beaumont plans to open a therapy can target tumors The now-cleared site of the Brewster-Douglass housing projects (top) lies just beyond the basketball courts of the Brewster $40 million, single-room proton more precisely with lower Wheeler Recreation Center (above left). Old buildings meet new near where Alfred and Brush streets intersect (above right). beam center in Royal Oak in spring radiation doses to 2017. surrounding healthy tissue. Proton beam therapy is a contro- versial form of megavoltage radiation Proton therapy is seen as that some have suggested is effective having some benefit to treat in some prostate and pediatric can- tumors surrounded by A prettier picture cers because it causes less damage to sensitive structures — such as surrounding tissue while directing the eye, brain and spinal cord high dosages at tumors. — where the potential for It also has been used to treat lung radiation damage is high. Source: American Cancer Society See PROTON, Page 21 for Brush Park? Special Report By Kirk Pinho The Karmanos Cancer [email protected] Institute and other health reater downtown could be looking at care organizations in the a reawakening of one of its most region are strengthening historic — yet languishing — their oncology networks, Genclaves now that redevelopment Page 11 plans have been announced and the city [UNION JOINTS LLC] negotiates with and seeks developers for more A rendering of the Brewster Wheeler mixed-use project. than 30 acres of land in and around Brush Park. © Entire contents copyright 2015 residential units with first-floor retail. by Crain Communications Inc. All rights reserved. But the big unanswered question is: What will But beyond that project, between three crainsdetroit.com Vol. 31 No 16 $2 a copy. $59 a year. happen with the areas immediately to the south separate requests for proposals, the city has and west of the Brewster Wheeler Recreation put up 32.6 acres of land for development Center site at I-75 south of Wilkins Street? nestled between the Midtown and Eastern Last week, the city announced that two Market District areas and east of the Ilitch redevelopment teams will turn their efforts to family’s developments surrounding a new the recreation center’s history and to its future arena for the Detroit Red Wings. with a $50 million project with restaurant and NEWSPAPER meeting space and approximately 150 See BRUSH PARK, Page 19 20150420-NEWS--0002-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 4/17/2015 3:07 PM Page 1 2 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // April 20, 2015 doesn’t plan to shift from its tradi- to pick up additional passengers. MICHIGAN tional big-box format in favor of Ⅲ Pennock Hospital in Hastings INSIDE smaller stores in urban areas, MiBiz will become the 12th hospital in the THIS ISSUE reported. “We talk about that, but Spectrum Health system, MLive.com BANKRUPTCIES . 21 BUSINESS DIARY . 15 we’re not there yet,” Erik Petrovskis, reported. Pennock’s new name will CALENDAR . 16 Spectrum Health Pennock the retailer’s director of environ- be . Grand CLASSIFIED ADS . 17 mental compliance and sustain- Rapids-based Spectrum will make a KEITH CRAIN . 8 ability, said last month at a Michi- $46 million capital commitment over MARY KRAMER . 8 BRIEFS gan’s Great Southwest Sustainable the next 10 years and continue essen- OPINION . 8 Business Forum event in St. Joseph. tial services at Pennock for at least 10 OTHER VOICES . 9 Current designs for Meijer super- years. Still to be determined is the fate PEOPLE . 15 Battery maker LG Chem to RadioShack adds Sprint name stores call for about 190,000 square of a $70 million hospital planned by RUMBLINGS . 22 double workforce in Holland as 31 stores reopen in Mich. feet of space. In recent years, the Pennock. WEEK ON THE WEB . 22 company has experimented with Ⅲ Kalamazoo College President Holland-based LG Chem Michigan RadioShack, which announced in smaller formats, including a 102,000- Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran will retire in Inc. scheduled a job fair for Tuesday February plans to close 1,784 under- square-foot store that opened in June 2016, according to the college’s COMPANY INDEX: as the maker of electric vehicle bat- performing U.S. stores, including 25 2010 in suburban Chicago. website. Wilson-Oyelaran has head- SEE PAGE 21 teries for the auto industry plans to in Southeast Michigan, has re- ed the school since July 2005. double its workforce in 2015, MiBiz opened many of them as co-brand- MICH-CELLANEOUS Ⅲ IBM Corp. plans to add 100 jobs reported. In a statement, the com- ed Sprint-RadioShack stores. Sprint Ⅲ Brian Klawiter, owner of the at its East Lansing operations by ald R. Ford International Airport set an pany said it planned to employ sev- plans to hire about 70 people for 31 DieselTec auto shop in Grandville, next year and spend $200,000 on all-time monthly record, MLive.com eral hundred people by the end of reopened Michigan stores, which wrote on his company’s Facebook new equipment, the Lansing State reported. Officials said 231,138 pas- 2015. will be outfitted with the “store with- page that “homosexuality is wrong” Journal reported. sengers traveled to and from the When LG Chem broke ground in in a store” concept over the next few and that he won’t welcome “im- Ⅲ March passenger traffic at Ger- Grand Rapids airport last month. 2010, the company said it would cre- months, according to a news release. moral behavior” at his business. The ate more than 400 jobs in Holland. On April 2, General Wireless Inc., Grand Rapids Press reported that Corrections Although the company had planned an affiliate of Standard General LP, Klawiter later posted that his family to begin production in 2012, sluggish announced it had received U.S. received death threats as well as Ⅲ A story about Detroit Tigers merchandise on Page 1 of the April 13 demand for plug-in electric and hy- Bankruptcy Court approval to ac- comments that suggested people issue should have said Matt Powell is a sports industry analyst for Port brid vehicles delayed operations quire the inventory and assume saw his post and, as a result, read it. Washington, N.Y.-based NPD Group. A previous professional affiliation until the second half of 2013. leases of the RadioShack stores. Followed, naturally, by reacting. was used. In 2013, the plant began produc- Sprint will be the primary brand, oc- Ⅲ North Country Sky airline will Ⅲ A story about Arborland Mall on Page 6 in the April 13 issue should ing batteries for the Chevrolet Volt, a cupying about one-third of the retail offer flights this summer between have said the mall was sold for 20 times net sales in 2005. An incorrect battery-powered hybrid being re- space at existing locations, the re- Chicago and Pellston Regional Air- figure was used. designed for the 2016 production lease said. port in northern Michigan, the Tra- Ⅲ In the April 13 story “GOP balks at funding Healthy Michigan plan,” year. Other automaker clients are verse City Record-Eagle reported. The Sen. Jim Marleau, R-Orion Township, was incorrectly identified as chair- Ford Motor Co., Renault SA, the Meijer: No plan for urban push round-trip flights will range from man of the Senate Health Policy Committee. Sen. Mike Shirkey, R-Clark- Hyundai/Kia group, Volvo Car Corp., by thinking outside big box $350 to $405 a person and run from lake, was recently appointed chairman. Marleau, who continues to sit Audi AG and Daimler AG. June 24 to Aug. 19 on Thursdays, Fri- on the Health Policy Committee, is now chairman of the Senate Com- In its news release, LG Chem did Although many of its rivals are days, Sundays and Mondays. Each munity Health subcommittee. not identify its new customer. doing so, Walker-based Meijer Inc. two-hour flight will stop in Manistee 20150420-NEWS--0003-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 4/17/2015 5:03 PM Page 1 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // April 20, 2015 3 Nonprofits given something to study One of many law changes: Liability protection expands to paid directors Rob Collier: “To get Though the new provision more talented people to broadly indemnifies all nonprofit By Sherri Welch New for nonprofits: A close look actions or those made to intention- serve on your directors and volunteer officers, it’s [email protected] at the changes to the Nonprofit ally hurt an organization.