ECONOMIST CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC AT CORENET ECONOMIC FORECAST LUNCHEON
The local commercial real estate industry braved harsh winter weather elements January 16th and showed up in force to hear economic predictions for the coming year. With the capacity crowd assembled at Dearborn Inns’ banquet center, 2014 CORENET MICHIGAN President Kyle Hauberg welcomed attendees and thanked all of the sponsors for their support of the event, including: CBRE, Stout, Risius & Ross, DMS Moving Systems, Turner, Bodman & Title Source. Other organizations lending their support included: BOMA, CBOR, CCIM, CREW, ICSC, IFMA, IREM, USGBC and SMPS.More
The Downtown Detroit Partnership is asking downtown property owners to form a business improvement zone and tax themselves to fund an entity that would have a $4 million budget to pay for things like downtown cleanup, beautification and safety.
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From a slow start a few years ago, small external battery packs – aka “juice boxes” – have proliferated and beefed up as more and more Americans, particularly small business people, depend on mobile devices that use up their overtaxed internal batteries at inconvenient times. Sure, there are bars or some other symbols in a corner somewhere to indicate remaining battery life but are they dependable? One of the sources for extending the operational life of those mobile devices, and giving you accurate assessments of remaining battery life, is Powerocks.
If you’re thinking about buying a home in the Grand Rapids market this year, Forbes thinks it’d be a good investment.
The Synergy Leaders consortium was formed to create green solutions for the metro Detroit region. The group finished its first year with resulting partnerships to solve environmental problems and move towards a green economy.
Automation Alley, Michigan’s largest technology business association, will host a U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce event on the changing dynamics of doing business in Mexico, Feb. 6 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at Automation Alley Headquarters in Troy.
Despite a drop in global clean energy investments in 2013, institutional investors meeting at the United Nations early this week expressed strong agreement on the urgency for boosting investments in low-carbon technologies and the major growth potential for ramping up green bonds and other clean energy investments to the levels necessary to avoid devastating climate change impacts. Much of the discussion focused on elevating clean energy investments by an additional $1 trillion per year in order to limit global warming to two degrees. To this end, Ceres has released a report with 10 recommendations for investors, companies and policymakers to scale up clean energy investments to $500 billion per year by 2020 and $1 trillion per year by 2030.