Credit crisis...mayoral scandal...While these things don't make life
easy for those doing development in Detroit, they are holding steady
and keeping things happening.
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While the economy makes their work all the more difficult, [Detroit Economic Growth Corp. Presdent George] Jackson
says, "This is not a time to withdraw." DEGC is using approximately
$1.3 million – up from just $200,000 two years ago – to go on trade
missions, meet with companies one on one, engage in a marketing and
public perception campaign and to better interact with trade groups
like Automation Alley and the Detroit Regional Chamber. "No one is
going to sell Detroit better that we can," he says.
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