They see a safe and clean place for ample fishing of walleye and bass. And a place for paddling a kayak or canoe on a warm sunny day through downtown Flint. Organizers of the estimated $40 million Flint River Restoration project say returning the river to its natural state will accomplish much more than just making Continue Reading
A nearly $50 million Magna Electronics expansion, new hotels, new businesses and plans for a 90-acre park slated to include a baseball field for disabled children are driving economic growth in the southern half of Genesee County. Two areas in particular are flourishing including along Holly Road in Grand Blanc Township and Hill Road in Continue Reading
MW Gallery, which opened two years ago in downtown Flint, showcases museum-quality African diaspora art from the large Mott-Warsh Collection. The gallery is free and open to the public. Maryanne Mott, daughter of Charles Stewart Mott, and her late husband Herman Warsh established the collection in 2001. It focuses on work from post-World War II. Continue Reading
Call it a lodging boom for Genesee County. Several hundred new hotel rooms are headed for the southern half of the county. Two new hotels are going up and more may be in the works. A multi-million Fairfield Inn & Suites in Grand Blanc Township and a $16 million Hyatt Place in Mundy Township are Continue Reading
Bishop International Airport, a key economic generator in Flint and Genesee County, is refining itself in an age of some airline industry turbulence. It’s taking proactive steps in planning for the future, adapting to an airline’s departure and trumpeting its convenience, inexpensive parking and ease of use in a new ad campaign. While the airport Continue Reading
From planning elaborate princess weddings with The Walt Disney Co. and visits to the Most Magical Place on Earth for families with a disabled child, Shannon Bonadurer has an inside edge when it comes to Disney travel. After working with Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings & Honeymoons for about 10 years, Bonadurer and her husband Troy Continue Reading
Flint’s Mass Transportation Authority is more than just a fixed route bus service. The public transportation agency better known as MTA is recognized nationally for innovative programs that take people to buy their groceries and get them to and from important medical appointments. “The last 10 years for us has been a real transformation…. We’re Continue Reading
With the help of 100K Ideas, you could be Flint’s newest inventor and entrepreneur. Even the space that houses the nonprofit 100K Ideas, the Ferris Wheel in downtown Flint, is inventive as a co-working space. Both have received national recognition for their ingenuity. Over at C3 3D LLC in Flint, an additive manufacturing or industrial Continue Reading
Jan Barlow has reinvented her Clio laundry and dry cleaning business several times over since she opened in the midst of a recession in February 1982. Barlow started with just a small coin laundry, added dry cleaning about six months later and followed shortly with an addition. The former teacher has been ahead of industry Continue Reading
A group of community-minded businessmen emerged from a meeting nearly 20 years ago, committed to help their struggling city make a comeback. Each put up a significant amount of their own cash to try to redevelop a sleepy downtown with numerous shuttered storefronts and buildings. The investors formed Uptown Six LLC in 2001 and Uptown Continue Reading
