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Gilbert, others push in Lansing to broaden tax-capture funding for big projects, Page 3 SEPTEMBER 19 - 25, 2016 An impromptu dance-o includes “Hamilton” producer Jerey Seller (fourth from le) on stage at an Orchestra Hall Detroit Homecoming event last Thursday as Mike Ellison (center with microphone) performs. More inside n Detroit Homecoming, in ‘A place of interest’ words and images, Ballmer talks Detroit pride, poverty, philanthropy Page 20 n Room at the Shinola hotel Steve Ballmer balled his sts and script is at crainsdetroit.com. about that, too. Lawrence Tech was inn? brings more rooms pounded the table, rattling silver- I want to talk about generational pretty big. downtown, ware and water glasses in a private poverty and government reform, but Those are two institutions that Page 21 room of a downtown restaurant. I think I would like to start in Detroit. helped shape the man you became. n Coming Sept. “It’s attackable,” he bellowed, … I have heard you have been very in- Are there other institutions that you 26: Detroit 2.0 “and it should be attacked!” volved in Detroit Country Day, but look back on and say … ? tallies the outcomes e Detroit-born retired Micro- just very quietly. Steve: Franklin Hills Country Club, and outlooks from so CEO made famous for his vocal Steve: Yes, I have been very in- where I was a caddie. three years of exuberance for “developers, develop- volved in Country Day. Tell me about caddying for (mall Detroit ers, developers” had another passion Will you tell me what you have developer Al) Taubman. Homecoming. in mind while eating lunch last week Steve: I won’t say anything about been doing with them? Because it nMore news: Will with his wife, Connie, and Crain’s De- has not been written up at all. that, you won’t hear a word about Leather expansion, troit Business Associate Publisher Steve: And it won’t be written be- that from me today. (Laughs) “Hamilton” to come Ron Fournier: Attacking intergenera- cause I asked them to make sure it What was it like caddying in gen- to Detroit and more, PHOTOS BY AARON ECKELS tional poverty through philanthropy. didn’t get written up. (Laughs) eral there? Page 22 Retired Microso CEO Steve Ballmer spoke at the third is is a heavily edited transcript Lawrence Tech, as well? Steve: To me, that was actually Detroit Homecoming last week. of their discussion. e full tran- Steve: And Lawrence Tech. I forgot SEE BALLMER, PAGE 21 Douglass-Market plan builds on lessons learned from history By Kirk Pinho been there only a month when he high-rise devel- [email protected] started representing tenants in what opments ware- Richard Baron was fresh out of law would become the St. Louis public housing low-in- school at the University of Michigan housing rent strike of 1968-69. come people to a when he moved to St. Louis for a Legal His career, rst as an attorney and more mixed-in- Aid Society fellowship in the fall of then as one of the nation's leading af- come approach 1968. fordable housing developers, follows that groups resi- Baron, then a blond-haired young an almost parallel track with the coun- dents from a vari- The Douglass-Market plan man from the east side of Detroit, had try’s as it shifted away from large-scale ety of economic renderings show diverse backgrounds. Richard Baron architecture. © Entire contents copyright 2016 Which helps by Crain Communications Inc. All rights reserved get us to today, as city ocials and de- crainsdetroit.com Vol. 32 No 38 $2 a copy. $59 a year. velopers work on a $416.6 million plan for more than 1,000 units of mixed-in- the one proposed for the Brew- country’s largest aordable housing come housing across 25 acres of great- ster-Douglass site “changed the whole developers. er downtown Detroit land, primarily economic base of these communities Of course, that’s not the only im- on the former Brewster-Douglass by giving them more buying power, al- provement. housing projects site, but also a trio of lowing retail services to come in,” said “It drastically reduced policing is- others in Eastern Market and Brush Baron, now in his 70s and chairman sues for local departments and was a NEWSPAPER Park. and CEO of St. Louis-based McCor- much more stable situation.” Mixed-income developments like mack Baron Salazar Inc., one of the SEE DOUGLASS, PAGE 18 2 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS // SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 nia-based attorney and former Michi- caregivers would pay a 3 percent tax MICHIGAN gan Attorney General Mike Cox in the on their gross retail income. INSIDE U.S. District Court for the Western Dis- n Michigan’s estimated median THIS ISSUE trict of Michigan in Kalamazoo. Be- household income was $51,084 in CALENDAR .........................................15 sides Ferguson and Bernero, also 2015, up 2.4 percent from 2014 and, CLASSIFIED ADS ...............................17 named were the Lansing Economic factoring ination, the state’s biggest DEALS & DETAILS .............................15 KEITH CRAIN.......................................6 Area Partnership, LEAP President and increase since 1999, according to U.S. CEO Bob Trezise, Ferguson’s partner Census data released last week, MLive. MARY KRAMER ..................................6 OPINION ..............................................6 BRIEFS Frank Kass and their joint develop- com reported. Adjusted for ination, PEOPLE ...............................................16 Corrine Miller, the former director ment company on the project, Fergu- Michigan’s median household in- U.S. Senate OKs water bill RUMBLINGS ......................................22 of disease control and prevention at . come had been trending down since with millions for Flint son-Continental LLC WEEK ON THE WEB .........................22 the Michigan Department of Health In 2012, the Jeromes proposed the 2000 and hit bottom in 2012 but since e U.S. Senate approved a $10 bil- and Human Services, pleaded no con- mixed-use Capital Gateway project, has increased by 5.6 percent beyond lion water projects bill last week that test to a misdemeanor of willful ne- which included two former car dealer- ination. COMPANY INDEX: includes emergency funding for Flint glect of duty in exchange for prosecu- ships and the former Red Cedar Golf n Johnson Technology will add 100 SEE PAGE 21 — nearly a year after ocials declared tors dropping felony misconduct and Course, the lawsuit says. e Jeromes jobs and invest $14.5 million in a third a public health emergency because of conspiracy charges. A denitive con- say they were forced to consider Fer- Muskegon-area aviation engine manu- Michigan corporate headquarters in lead-contaminated water. e mea- nection between the river water and guson and Charles Clark, of Lan- facturing facility, MLive.com reported. Walker, MLive.com reported. e sure goes to the House, where approv- Legionnaires’ has not been made, but sing-based Clark Construction Co., as e Muskegon-based military and avi- 5,000-square-foot museum includes al of a similar bill — minus the Flint many experts believe it was the cause. development partners who demand- ation engine component manufacturer memorabilia and artifacts collected by provision — is expected as soon as this ed Bernero give Ferguson’s team con- plans to convert a warehouse into a the corporation, the Meijer family and week, AP reported. Lawsuit: Ferguson, Bernero trol of the project and cut the Jeromes manufacturing plant in Norton Shores former employees. e Senate measure would autho- out. Ferguson and Bernero denied to be ready by Jan. 1. Johnson employs n Michigan’s jobless rate was un- rize 29 projects in 18 states for dredg- ‘stole’ Lansing project wrongdoing. nearly 700 people in Michigan. changed at 4.5 percent in August from ing, ood control and other projects Joel Ferguson, developer and chair- n Meijer Inc. is chronicling its 82- July, remaining at its lowest level in 15 overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of man of the Michigan State University MICH-CELLANEOUS year history with the recent unveiling years, AP reported. e U.S. jobless Engineers. e bipartisan bill includes board of trustees, is accused of con- n Michigan would tax and regulate of a “Heritage Center” at the retailer’s rate was unchanged at 4.9 percent. $100 million in grants and loans to re- spiring with Lansing Mayor Virg Bern- medical marijuana in a tiered licens- place lead-contaminated pipes in ero to use their political inuence to ing system under legislation that won Corrections Flint and other cities with lead emer- “steal” an important development nal legislative approval and that is gencies, as well as $50 million to test project from two former partners. expected to be signed by Gov. Rick n In the Sept. 12 article “How to sell tickets to millennials,” the last names water for lead in schools and $70 mil- Developers Christopher and Leo Snyder, AP reported. e Republi- for Lindsey Pollak and Larisa Zade were misspelled, and it should have made lion for water infrastructure loans. Jerome led a federal lawsuit alleging can-controlled House last week voted clear that participants in the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit’s Monster Meanwhile, Michigan’s former that Ferguson, Bernero and others for a main bill to require a state operat- Drawing Rally are artists of any age and not necessarily New Wave members. state epidemiologist acknowledged in have long engaged in racketeering — ing license to grow, process, sell, trans- n A Sept. 12 story titled “How to boost Detroit’s creative economy? First, a plea deal that she was aware of doz- rigging bids, bribery and extortion — port or test marijuana used for medi- take inventory” should have said the state’s arts and cultural funding through ens of cases of Legionnaires’ disease in culminating in Ferguson taking the cal purposes.