20150323-NEWS--0001-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 3/20/2015 5:47 PM Page 1 ® www.crainsdetroit.com Vol. 31, No. 12 MARCH 23 – 29, 2015 $2 a copy; $59 a year ©Entire contents copyright 2015 by Crain Communications Inc. All rights reserved Page 3 Snyder hits road to push Prop 1 Looking Back: How Detroit Plan’s perils: Complex add-ons, state chamber’s stance reached its lofty presence BY BILL SHEA posal 1 on the May 5 ballot is too complex rather than via legislative or executive CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS and confusing because of the 10 other fiat. bills linked to the measure that would in- “It’s hard. It’s a tax increase,” he said. With just seven weeks left before Elec- crease funding for schools and local gov- This is one reason hundreds of presen- tion Day, Gov. Rick Snyder last week be- ernments. tations will be made to groups by the gan making the rounds to stump for a Snyder, who spoke with Crain’s during campaign coalition in the coming weeks, contentious ballot proposal that a visit on March 19, acknowledged the up- and why Snyder himself is so active in would generate $1.2 billion hill struggle the “Safe Roads Yes” vote making the case. He even brought a piece for Michigan’s crumbling campaign faces to increase the state sales of a crumbled concrete bridge to his in- roads by increasing the tax one percentage point to 7 percent. The terview with Crain’s as a physical re- state sales tax. measure requires a constitutional Critics, however, say Pro- amendment approved by the voters See Roads, Page 35 Direct primary care: Can it DAVID HALL contain health care costs? UM biz school to offer DPS Defense bill lessons in leadership Finance: M&A Awards could retire Compuware restructuring: Selfridge jets Bob Paul to tell BY CHAD HALCOM how, Page 11 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS DIA MIA? Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township could be- FORGIVE ME come a base without fighter planes Crain’s Bill Shea for the first time in 100 years if reflects on Rivera Congress passes a 2016 defense bill and Kahlo and that adopts a U.S. Air Force plan to his first visit to retire the A-10 Thunderbolt jet. the DIA (yes, he knows), Page 11 The A-10 fleet has flown largely intact through several years of bud- PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS get sorties between military leaders The economic impact of the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo exhibit has extended beyond the walls of the Detroit who want to retire it and senior Institute of Arts and has become, in a sense, a new Detroit industry. members of Congress who keep it in service. Most recently, a compro- mise version of the 2015 National Rivera-Kahlo show’s impact Defense Authorization Act passed in December halted a plan to retire the fleet but allowed the service to put up to 36 aircraft on backup sta- Next week: New look, reaches far beyond the DIA tus if the federal government deems it necessary. same must-read Last month, the Air Force an- BY SHERRI WELCH And a dozen area restaurants are offering drinks Next week, after more CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS and dishes created with Rivera and Kahlo in mind, See Selfridge, Page 36 than 750 issues using its cur- from entrées taken from Kahlo’s cookbooks and rent design, Crain’s Detroit nly a week into its four-month run, the Diego notes at El Zocalo in Detroit’s Mexican Town to Union Business will come to your Rivera and Frida Kahlo exhibit at Street’s “Ode to Detroit Industry” cock- office sporting a new look. Othe Detroit Institute of Arts is al- tail with Mezcal, a distilled spirit known How new, you ask? ready drawing people from around the as Tequila’s cousin, Maraschino liqueur region, country and world. Take a look at the copy of and fresh lime as key ingredients. But the economic impact of the exhibit is Then there’s Hamtramck’s Rock City the paper now in your hands. extending well beyond the museum’s walls Now look at the picture Eatery with “Panzón + Friducha,” a dish to other arts and cultural groups, and to featuring pan-seared beef tongue and above this blurb. area restaurants and shops. “ash-baked beets,” among other ingredi- Yes, that’s the exact issue About two dozen local arts and cultural ents, that hails from Rivera’s birthplace COURTESY OF NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP. groups are hosting programs thematically as this one, using the ele- in Guanajuato, Mexico. Selfridge officials estimate that about ments of Crain’s new look. tied to the exhibit, capitalizing on the op- 180 full-time and 455 part-time jobs portunity to attract new audiences. are directly tied to flight, operation We hope to see you next See Kahlo, Page 37 and maintenance of its A-10s. week with the rest of the story. “Double Portrait of Diego and I,” Frida Kahlo, 1944 Rocking the Intellectual Property World WNJ.com ATTORNEYS AT LAW (see our ad on page 2) NEWSPAPER 20150323-NEWS--0002-NAT-CCI-CD_-- 3/20/2015 3:27 PM Page 1 Page 2 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS March 23, 2015 MICHIGAN BRIEFS Huntington to open 43 branches reported. In January, Eagle Alloy Inc., Port City Group Inc. and Fleet En- at Meijer stores statewide Talent so important, it now has its own department gineers Inc. launched the Muskegon Two years after announcing an Manufacturers Health and Wellness agreement with Meijer Inc. to open Last December, Crain’s reported on Gov. Rick Strategic Fund. Steve Arwood, CEO of the MEDC, also Clinics. The clinics provide routine bank branches in the Walker- Snyder’s executive order creating the Michigan De- heads Talent and Economic Development. care similar to what employees based retailer’s stores, Huntington partment of Talent and Economic Development along The Talent Investment Agency will coordinate job would receive from a primary care Bank said it plans to open 43 full- with the Michigan Talent Investment Agency. Both preparedness and worker training programs. physician. service branches in Michigan this were scheduled to start operations in March. Which Agency head Stephanie Comai said efforts will in- Ⅲ Grand Rapids-based Davenport year and will add 250 jobs would be this month. clude trying to create a pipeline for all talent in the University has appointed Pamela statewide, The Associated Press And so The Associated Press confirmed that last state, from students to those already in the work- Imperato the new dean of the Don- reported. With the additions an- week, Talent and Economic Development launched. force who need new training. One area of emphasis ald W. Maine College of Business, the nounced, Huntington Bank will Its aim: Make Michigan a national leader in talent will be on connecting the unemployed to training school said in a news release. employ 2,300 in Michigan. development for skilled trades such as manufactur- and job opportunities. Another focus will be promot- Ⅲ Vermont-based Orvis Co. Inc. is The expansion by Columbus, ing, welding, electrical work and automotive pro- ing jobs in the skilled trades. opening a West Michigan store in Ohio-based Huntington Bancshares duction. “We need to change the conversation about these Grand Rapids, MiBiz reported. Inc. will mean Huntington Bank Talent and Economic Development will bring to- opportunities” in skilled trades, Comai said. “For The retailer also has a store in has more than 220 branches in gether the Michigan Economic Development Corp., Michi- too long, those jobs were maybe not looked on very Royal Oak. Michigan. The Huntington offices gan State Housing Development Authority and Michigan favorably, but they are high paying and in demand.” Ⅲ The newspaper Military in Meijer stores will replace Times recently ranked Saginaw Val- branches operated by Chase Bank. ley State University No. 20 nationally units will be “delivered, under opment in south Texas to provide Group. Terms were not disclosed. on its list of the best educational construction or planned.” power to one of its plants, the Mid- Ⅲ Michigan State University re- institutions for military-affiliated Looking for apartment in GR? Factors for the apartment con- land Daily News reported. Dow is ceived a $6.9 million grant from students seeking an education in struction boom? Millennials and the first company in the U.S. to the National Science Foundation to business, MLive.com reported. Good luck with that, website says empty-nesting baby boomers are power a manufacturing site with improve science teaching in mid- Ⅲ The U.S. Internal Revenue Ser- The Grand Rapids-Wyoming moving back into city centers and renewable energy at this scale, the dle and high school. vice charged Fontrise Charles of metropolitan statistical area had a are interested in options other paper reported, and will become Ⅲ FutureMark Manistique will Kalamazoo with filing false tax re- 1.6 percent apartment vacancy than owning. Developers such as the third-largest corporate pur- close its paper mill in the Upper turns for others over a three-year rate at the end of last year — the John Wheeler of Grand Rapids- chaser of wind energy in the Unit- Peninsula this week, WLUC-TV re- period, along with filing her own lowest in the country, according to based Orion Construction have ed States. ported. The mill had emerged from false returns, The Associated the real estate research website pointed to the historically low in- Ⅲ Holland-based JR Automation bankruptcy in 2012. Press reported. Charles promoted Zillow.com.