Flint is emerging as a city where great ideas come to life as entrepreneurs and large companies open new businesses, share their inspiration with others and add to the city’s growth. That’s helping change the perception of a city that has been challenged by the water crisis and the economic fallout caused by a shrinking […]
Flint’s Mayor, council members, state representatives and liaisons from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation stood next to backhoes and earth movers with golden shovels to celebrate the ground breaking of a 156,000-square-foot factory that will make seats for General Motors Corp. in Flint. Lear is making a $29.3-million investment on this 33-acre site that will […]
Six hundred new jobs. That’s the news Lear executives will happily promote at its press conference today on the grounds of its new facility located at Buick City. Lear’s not just bringing jobs to Flint, although they are certainly welcome and needed. Behind the news of jobs is a bold statement of an even bigger […]