Clearcover chooses Detroit for customer experience center
When Clearcover, a growing digital auto insurance carrier, was looking to establish its first customer experience center, it cast a wide net across a host of Midwest cities. The Chicago-based company was born and bred in the Midwest and knew it wanted its second...
Manufacturing Matters
Despite our increasingly diversified economy with growing industries such as financial services, food and soft goods, manufacturing still powers Detroit’s economic engine. It’s an industry – like so many others – that’s been hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis. Michigan...
Michigan Small Business Restart Program grant applications now open
Help is on the way for Detroit small businesses still feeling the economic impact of COVID-19. The DEGC, through the Michigan Small Business Restart Program, will administer $7.25 million in grants to those businesses with fewer than 50 employees in an industry that...
Keeping Black-owned businesses open is key to Detroit’s success
The impact of COVID-19 on Detroit’s economy, and the financial disparity that exists for many Black Detroiters resulting from systemic racism, create a nexus for addressing Black business ownership in our city. According to the Washington Post, the number of...
Economic equality is one step in addressing systemic racism
As the U.S. grieves the deaths of too many Black men and women at the hands of police officers, we must shine the light on all of the racial atrocities that have brought us to this place and time. Discrimination and bigotry perpetrated against Black Americans is an...
COVID-19 shines light on Detroit’s economic disparities
Last month, I had the pleasure of participating in a Michigan Chronicle webinar focused on supporting Detroit’s small businesses in the wake of COVID-19. Today, as protests around the country shine a much-needed spotlight on racial disparities, it is even more...
Detroit remains resilient, finding new ways to give back
The COVID-19 crisis has deeply impacted Detroit, its people and its economy. However, tragedies often reveal the amazing capacity for people to do good. The hardships so many of us face can trigger generosity in others. Our suffering links us in a very human and...
Several financial aid packages available for Detroit and Wayne County small businesses
Detroit and Wayne County, like the rest of the world, are feeling the devastating impact of COVID-19. After ensuring the safety of our people, sustaining our neighborhood businesses is our next priority. I’m pleased to announce several financial aid packages available...