Warren and Ann Arbor are in the same state... but that might be their only similarity. Fifty miles away from each other Warren and Ann Arbor may be what Michigan was -- the manufacturing city of Warren -- and what Michigan needs to be -- the innovative, start-up saturated Ann Arbor.
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Innovative companies like Accio are common in Ann Arbor, home to the
University of Michigan, where a highly educated population has created
a burgeoning economy, and a street-corner conversation can develop into
a company and create jobs.
Michigan's economic future rests on making the state look more like
Ann Arbor, and less like Warren, 50 miles to the northeast, where
factory buildings and warehouses built on the riches of the Big Three
auto makers bear signs saying they are "priced to sell." The latest
blow came earlier this month, when Chrysler LLC shut down its two
plants in Warren as part of its bankruptcy filing.
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