He also said the money wouldn’t take a new tax. Voters could choose later this year whether to extend MAPS 4 beyond 2028 to pay for part of the arena. The MAPS 4 is a debt-free public improvement program funded by a temporary penny sales tax that will raise a projected $1.1 billion...
inhibit Grand Rapids from taking new steps that go in a starkly different direction than theCompactrecommends. As part of Michigan's Renaissance Zone program, Grand Rapids has moved in the same direction this report will, below, recommend for the city of Kalamazoo: reducing the tax burden in ...
Still, a lot of investment in business as well as real estate has fled to Detroit's suburbs, especially Troy, Southfield and Auburn Hills. In Ann Arbor, home to the University of Michigan, roughly 35 miles west of the Motor City, biotechnology and other kinds of high-tech industry are th...