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MEDC presents 'Make It in Michigan' strategy emphasizing people, places and projects
Summary
Director Quentin Messer and MEDC chief growth officer Hillary Doe told the House Committee on Economic Competiveness that the 'Make It in Michigan' strategy focuses on talent, placemaking and project readiness and highlighted program results and metrics including job gains, leveraged private investment and talent-campaign interest.
Director Quentin Messer, director of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, told the House Committee on Economic Competitiveness that MEDC’s Make It in Michigan economic development strategy centers on three pillars: people, places and projects.
The nut graf: Messer and Hillary Doe, the agency’s chief growth officer and chief marketing officer, told legislators that the integrated approach aims to align workforce development, community revitalization and business attraction tools so companies can both recruit and retain talent and scale production in Michigan.
Messer said MEDC organizes work across 10 prosperity regions and partners with local economic development organizations, small business development centers, the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center and 20 entrepreneurial “smart zones” to tailor assistance by region. “We are not trying to dictate from…
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