20111212-NEWS--0001-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 12/9/2011 5:47 PM Page 1 ® www.crainsdetroit.com Vol. 27, No. 51 DECEMBER 12 – 18, 2011 $2 a copy; $59 a year ©Entire contents copyright 2011 by Crain Communications Inc. All rights reserved Page 3 Beaumont Detroit vendors wrestle Capitol Park: 3 finalists with proposed 10% pay cut ends contract Can winning Warriors bring with for-profit Some well-known developers not on short list in money for Wayne State? BY DANIEL DUGGAN housing paired with local and na- to get in on the ground floor of CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS tional retailers. what is becoming an exciting and oncology group Surprising some real estate in- dynamic urban core in the heart CRAIN’S Three groups are being inter- siders are the well-known devel- of downtown Detroit,” he said. MICHIGAN BUSINESS viewed for the task of redevelop- opers who submitted proposals Making the cut is the developer Lower costs, closer ing the pub- but aren’t on the short list, in- behind the Broderick Tower, De- Reframing CLOSER LOOK licly owned cluding Westin Book Cadillac devel- troit-based J.C. Beal Construction oversight sought buildings in oper John Ferchill, who had Inc., in a joint venture with Den- bowling The buildings: A the run- teamed with Quicken Loans Inc. ver-based Tryba Architects. Also on look around Capitol down Capitol founder Dan Gilbert. the list, sources said, are the de- for changing BY JAY GREENE Park, Page 37 Park district In an emailed comment, Gilbert velopers behind the Durant Hotel CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS times, Page 11 of Detroit. did not signal any hard feelings. in Flint, Lansing-based Prater De- Beaumont Health System has end- Among the plans is a mixed-use “We welcome any and all in- velopment Ltd. and Lansing-based ed its contract with 3-year-old development with 225-250 units of vestors who see the opportunities Karp and Associates LLC. Digital edition Beaumont Oncology Network PC, a affordable, high-end and senior that exist in the city and who want See Park, Page 37 Catch up on news that did- for-profit medical service organi- n’t take the holiday off and zation, as a cost-savings measure look back on the events that and to provide closer oversight of you — through clicks on our its oncology program by hospital website — considered the top management. stories this year. “It was an experiment that saw It’s all part of a digital edi- many good things accomplished,” tion of Crain’s Detroit Busi- said Mike Killian, Beaumont’s ness, available at crainsde- vice president of troit.com beginning Sunday marketing and evening. public affairs. Paid subscribers already “They put to- registered on our website will gether many receive an e-mail link. Sub- multidiscipline scribers who need to register clinics that are can visit crainsdetroit.com and still in existence click the “LOG IN or REGIS- today.” TER” link directly below the By forming Beaumont On- red navigation bar. If you have Killian problems or questions, contact cology Network, customer service at (877) 824- Killian said, the goals of Royal 9374 or customerservice@crains- Oak-based Beaumont were to de- detroit.com. velop specialty oncology clinics, The next regular print edi- manage clinical services, improve tion of Crain’s will be Jan. 2, quality and work with private following the Book of Lists practice physicians to increase pa- (see below) Dec. 26. tient volume at the nationally rec- ognized Beaumont Cancer Institute. Beaumont Oncology Network re- cruited more than 140 cancer-treat- ANDREW TEMPLETON/CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Book of Lists Fred Stempky of Fred Stempky Nursery in Livonia said he’s not against a new fee that had been intended to help ing physicians and surgeons, in- promote the sale of real Christmas trees but would not have been able to pass the cost to consumers. Crain’s Book of Lists cluding 18 physicians employed by arrives Dec. 26, and it also is Beaumont, as part of its network. being made The specialties included radiation available oncology, medical oncology, urolo- in digital gy, neurosurgery, thoracic form. surgery, colorectal surgery and Print sub- breast surgery. scribers “All the physicians are still in- will re- volved (with the institute), but we ceive both have it running now like all other print and major cancer programs in the U.S. digital ver- with administration inside the sions. hospital,” Killian said. Standalone After three years, Beaumont de- Anti-tax talk topples program meant to help growers purchases of the digital edi- cided it could continue to support tion cost $36 and include a private practice and employed PAT SHELLENBARGER Two days later, under attack by dustry’s position in the market- yearlong online subscription; physicians in its oncology pro- SPECIAL TO CRAIN’S MICHIGAN BUSINESS conservative bloggers and talk place,” the agency announced in standalone print copies are gram through existing hospital show hosts, the federal agency the Federal Register. $29.95. For more information, management and clinical service With real Christmas trees slow- changed its mind. A majority of Christmas tree call (877) 824-9374. See Beaumont, Page 34 ly losing sales ground to the arti- The program — similar to growers nationally, including ficial kind, many tree farmers those promoting sales of beef, those in Michigan, favored the were counting on a new federal milk and other farm products — program, said Marsha Gray, exec- program to boost business in would have been funded by a 15 utive director of the Howell-based Michigan — the third-largest pro- cent-per-tree fee collected from Michigan Christmas Tree Association. ducer of real trees in the nation. farms that sell 500 or more trees a “We’ve worked on this for four They’ll have to wait at least an- year. The USDA had planned to years,” she said. “We were very other year. appoint a board of industry repre- much in support of the checkoff In early November, the U.S. De- sentatives to oversee a “program program. Really, what we’re try- partment of Agriculture announced of promotion, research, evalua- ing to do is create greater de- NEWSPAPER a “checkoff” program to promote tion and information designed to sales of fresh Christmas trees. strengthen the Christmas tree in- See Trees, Page 37 20111212-NEWS--0002-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 12/9/2011 4:47 PM Page 1 Page 2 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS December 12, 2011 MICHIGAN BRIEFS Kalamazoo, Flint set to benefit Erik Nordman, a professor at Grand Valley State University who from WMU, MSU med school plans If your name is on every grate, is new name great idea? has studied offshore wind farms, presented his findings on the en- Two Michigan cities are set to vironmental and economic im- benefit from growth in the medical The next time you take a break, go outside, look in “the new shared identity will help in leveraging all pact, The Holland Sentinel report- education programs at two state the street for a manhole cover, then look at the name company resources to improve internal operations, ed. universities. on it. Then do the same thing to another manhole cov- as well as provide superior product offerings and Other topics included the poten- Ⅲ In Kalamazoo, Western Michi- er, and maybe a sewer grate or two services to customers.” tial effects of the wind farms on gan University announced that its … or 20. Chances are, you’ll see that The company, based in the north- fishing, the potential effects of new School of Medicine will be East Jordan Iron Works has cornered ern Michigan community of the winter weather on the wind farms housed in a downtown building the street corner market in this same current name, employs about and, in particular, the fact that off- that was once part of The Upjohn state and beyond. “Ubiquitous” 500 in East Jordan and about 2,000 shore wind energy is twice as ex- Co., the Kalamazoo Gazette report- doesn’t begin to describe this corporate moniker. worldwide. East Jordan Iron Works has been owned pensive as other carbon-free tech- ed. MPI Research, a scientific re- So how to explain this: The Petoskey News-Review by the Malpass family since 1883. nologies, according to the U.S. search firm headquartered in reported that starting Jan. 6, East Jordan’s owners Affiliates that also will be brought under the new Energy Information Administration. nearby Mattawan, is donating the plan to rebadge under a single name: “EJ.” The web- EJ label are Norinco in France, Cavanagh in Ireland, In a related development, on building. site Steel Guru reported that company leaders think McCoy in Canada and HaveStock in Australia. land up the shore near Muskegon, Ⅲ In Flint, the Michigan State Uni- Jackson-based Consumers Energy versity College of Human Medicine percent. It attributes the hit to companies that agreed to pay Euro- Michigan would be hard on the Co. is proceeding with a $235 mil- will open a community campus maintenance at one of its cus- pean Union antitrust fines for fixing eyes as well as tourism, the com- lion, 56-turbine wind farm, despite downtown, The Flint Journal re- tomer’s blast furnaces, Bloomberg prices of refrigerator compressors. munity decided to seek input from opponents who contend, among ported. The college will develop News reported. Bloomberg News reported that the the other Holland. other things, that the turbines are public health programs, recruit That may affect 600 workers in Whirlpool units were fined about During a teleconference last too close to homes. and house researchers and pro- Michigan beginning in the second $73 million.