From today's Freep : (link)Quicken to bring HQ, 4,000 workers downtown
Grand vision is of another Silicon Valley
After two years of speculation and negotiations, Quicken Loans and Rock Financial founder and Chairman Dan Gilbert told the Free Press on Monday that he will move the mortgage firm's headquarters office and 4,000 people from Livonia to downtown Detroit.
They're calling it "Detroit 2.0." That assumes there was actually a working "Detroit 1.o" version (okay, I'll give them some points for cleverness).
My favorite quote from the Gov:
Granholm said, "Dan Gilbert could move his company to any state in the nation, but he is choosing to stay right here in Michigan, and that should send a signal to other new-economy companies that this is a great place to do business."
Well, I guess that it's too much to hope for NEW business to come into the state, so, we just get excited when they don't leave!
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