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Strong, innovative people and beautiful, productive land: these are Michigan’s core . What will it take for Michigan to succeed in the ?
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PAL in the news
Michigan must stop bleeding young talent
(Detroit Free Press, 04/27/09)
May 13, 2009—West Michigan Strategic Alliance’s State of the Region and Release of 2009 West Michigan Vital Signs featuring benchmarking data on comparable regions around the country. Join other stakeholders to help identify regional actions essential to achieving the vision of Western Michigan as a best place to live, learn, work, and play. For more information, click here.
May 19, 2009—Unveiling of the Grand Vision Decision at the State Theater in Traverse City. The Grand Vision is a citizen-led land use and transportation study that will provide a framework for the next 50+ years for development in Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau and Wexford counties. For more information, click here.
June 5–6, 2009—Reception and inaugural meeting of the Millennial Mayors Congress in metro Detroit. Help launch a new era of cooperation and intergenerational leadership in metro Detroit. For more information, click here.
Walkable cities are key to urban recovery
Det News.com—Detroit,MI,USA
But through diverse groups like People and Land, which is co-sponsoring a series of prosperity forums in Michigan— and with federal partners at groups....
Put new industries in old places, not old industries in new places. That's how to grow the economy according to a group of land use advocates. Michigan Now's Chris McCarus has the story. Click here to listen. (3MB; MP3 file)
Michigan growth depends on “knowledge workers,” study says
DetNews.com—Detroit,MI,USA
Bill Rustem, senior vice president of Public Sector Consultants, testified that Michigan needs to take steps now to draw and retain these new kinds of ...
MSU Releases Report on Michigan's Future
PAL UPDATE
September 2008 (PDF)
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The PAL vision for Michigan’s future is one shared by businesses, researchers, and thought leaders. Together, we are planning a Michigan that will have a key role in the new knowledge-based economy. Michigan is poised to provide a uniquely beautiful home for New Economy growth by applying strategic planning and smart policies that focus on what we must have to succeed. Together, we must focus on six key Pillars for Prosperity that will serve as a foundation for Michigan’s future. Successful regions in Michigan have organized themselves around one objective—to plan for the kind of growth that would make them good places to live, work, and play. Working together with Michigan’s universities, the Michigan State University Land Policy Institute, and Public Sector Consultants Inc., PAL is providing technical assistance and funding planning initiatives in regions that have demonstrated the leadership to make change.
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