Main Street Blog

This blog is intended to be informational and a source of new ideas. The opinions of the posters are not necessarily the views of the Michigan State Housing Development Authority.

Entries for August 2009

Editor's Note: We're very fortunate this week to have as a guest blogger our partner and good friend Brian McGrain from the Community Economic Development Association of Michigan (CEDAM). By day, Brian is CEDAM's Associate Director & Chief Operating Officer and serves as CEDAM's representative on the Michigan Main Street Advisory Committee and Michigan Downtown Conference Planning Partners Committee. By night, Brian is an Ingham County Commissioner and active member of the Grand River Connection, a Lansing-based Young Professionals Network.

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Jodie Willobee
Promotion, Arts & Culture Specialist
Michigan Main Street Center
Michigan State Housing Development Authority

Maybe the late Napoleon Hill would have titled his classic book this way had he been able to write it amidst this 2009 culture growing rich with the potential of local farming.

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By Dace Koenigsknecht
Economic Restructuring Specialist
Michigan Main Street Center
Michigan State Housing Development Authority

We, here at the Michigan Main Street Center, have been extremely busy this summer creating and refining training presentations for this upcoming year. This has been a valuable exercise in organization, and has enabled me a chance to define more clearly this point called Economic Restructuring.

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