| CBP Clickable Map Is Back |
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This feature allows you to geographically locate and view where each park in the CBP Program is located. By clicking on the the park tags, you can reach a link to be redirected to their individual webpage where additional information is featured. You can also get directions to & from locations, locate roads, search the area for photos, nearby places and much more.
You are also able to view this map in Google Earth ( Click here to download Google Earth). Google Earth allows you to go above and beyond the standard map view incorporating many different layers including weather, terrain and 3D buildings. |
| Promoting Your Certified Business Park |
Add Beneficial Links To Your CBP Page
Certified Business Parks are now able to add other website links to their park's page. Just send any links that you feel would be beneficial to those viewing your CBP Webpage to lsyring@medaweb.org and we will add them for you!
Add Your News To The CBP Website Homepage
In addition, we are always looking for recent CBP Development News to feature on the CBP Website and in our quarterly CBP Newsletter. If you manage a CBP and have any recent expansion, job creation, new tenants or park enhancement news, send them our way so that we can help promote you park! |
| CBP Website Updates |
 Contact BoxRecently added to the Certified Business Park Website Homepage is a Contact Box that allows visitors who seek more information to submit their inquiry along with how they would like to be contacted. This is to provide a better outreach to those viewing the website and wanting to know more of what the CBP Program has to offer!
CBP Newsletters
An archive of Certified Business Park Newsletters from the past year have been added to the CBP Homepage. |
| Oakwood Executive Park Customizes For Its Tenants |
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 Dart Development Group recently closed a deal with Fitzgerald Henne & Associates, Inc., a Dart Development tenant since 1999. Fitzgerald Henne needed to move from their Delhi Township location in Oakwood Executive Park to the City of Lansing. Rather than lose a long-standing tenant, Dart Development offered to build out a new suite for them within the business park's City of Lansing jurisdiction. Dart Development Group's property management team customized the new suite to meet the tenant's specifications, and the tenant was given a competitive lease rate, ensuring the continuation of an excellent business relationship.
"We are pleased to move into the City of Lansing and remain in the Oakwood Executive Park conveniently located at the intersection of I 96 and US 127. We wish to thank all our clients for their continued support and invite everyone to stop in and see our new facilities." - Greg Minshall, President,Fitzgerald Henne & Associates, Inc.
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| Quest Industries Locates In Lapeer Industrial & Research Park |
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 Quest Industries started in the Enterprise Center of Lapeer, a small business incubator, in 2001 with two employees. The company is engaged in specialized machining of precision metal parts for the medical, hydraulic, defense, alternative energy and automotive industries. Over the next few years the company continued to grow and in 2004 purchased a 14,000 square foot facility in the McCormick Industrial Park in Lapeer. The growth has continued and this month the company has acquired a 41,000 square foot facility in the Lapeer Industrial & Research Park. Quest Industries currently employs 30.
The Lapeer Development Corporation (LDC) has assisted the company with identifying financing for the project. An SBA 504 loan was used to finance the project. As the company has grown LDC has provided assistance with several Industrial Facilities Exemption Certificates. Small business counseling assistance has been provided to the company since they began. |
| MEDA Region 4 - Highlights on Mid-Michigan |
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 The terms Central Michigan and Mid-Michigan are used interchangeably to describe this region's proximity in the state. The Capitol of Michigan, Lansing is located in Ingham County in Mid-Michigan. Saginaw, Midland, Bay City and Flint are other major cities in the region.
Central Michigan's economy is primarily agricultural, which corn, sugar beets and soybeans being the most grown crops, with strong job growth in construction and hospitality. This region is very stable economically with much help from General Motors, Michigan State University, the State Government, and the Sparrow Health System.
 The area is connected to other regions of the state through an intricate highway system, making commuting, traveling and hauling easy for industries and individuals.
Mid-Michigan is a busy destination, growing constantly, but maintaining a hometown-heritage atmosphere in many of its towns and cities. The inner part of the Thumb by Bay and Huron Counties surrounds the Saginaw Bay. Towns that lace the Bay are filled with vacation homes, cottages, golf courses, restaurants and boat charters are available among many other activities.
In the summer, there are many fishing and hiking destinations, such as the Sleepy Hollow Campground in Laingsburg. Take your friends and family out to a ballgame at the Lugnut Stadium in downtown Lansing. Festivals include the Common Ground Music Festival in Lansing, the Elsie Dairy Festival and the Pumpkin Festival in Caro. Finding your way through a corn maze is easy here - there are several in the area!
In the winter, hunting and ice fishing are popular sports. Shop and enjoy the beauty of the Victorian homes Chesaning Christmas Candlelight Walk or visit Jackson in November for the Rose Festival Christmas Wish Craft Show - just in time for Christmas shopping!
Mid-Michigan Certified Business Parks
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Sincerely,
Cassandra Jorae
Michigan Economic Developers Association |
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| Thoughts of the CBP Chair |
To all CBP Operators:
1. What is the single most frequent question you get asked about your Park?
2. How do you usually answer that question?
If you would take a minute and send your responses to Lauren Syring at MEDA (lsyring@medaweb.org) we will assemble and share your responses in the next newsletter. In the meantime, know that the CBP Committee in MEDA is looking for ways to share details about both where inquiries are coming from and who is looking at your Park on the CBP website. We hope to share those details in a CBP newsletter later this year.
Again, please take a minute and send your responses to the two questions.
Wishing you a fabulous Michigan Spring!
--Warren Cook,
CBP Committee Chair |
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