Michigan Economic Center

Michigan Economic Center The Michigan Economic Center a is a center for ideas and a network of state and local leaders and citizens.

The Michigan Economic Center is a platform and network to develop and promote state and community policy and practices central to advancing our economic future and promoting and facilitating their embrace by Michigan leaders and citizens. We are working to:

• Advance a vision for Michigan’s economic renewal
• Provide policy ideas and solutions that realize the vision
• Engage a diverse network of citizens, leaders, and organizations

To grow and prosper, Michigan — the Great Lakes state — must reanimate our historic leadership role as an economic innovator, creator of America’s middle class, and enabler of a distinctly Michigan version of the American Dream. To do so, Michigan must once again be the globally engaged center of innovation, through our leadership in the coming “Green” and “Blue” sustainable economies based on smart energy, water, and transportation. Michigan must provide an “uncommon” education for the common man, and capitalize on our unique piece of real estate astride the Great Lakes. Add to that the rich history and culture embodied in our great cities like Detroit and Grand Rapids to make Michigan an attractive place for global citizens to live, work and develop robust businesses. We invite you to join in the work of the new Michigan Economic Center housed at the Prima Civitas Foundation, a catalyst connecting resources from throughout the state to help grow Michigan's economic base in this new, global economy.

It has been 15 years since federal dollars started flowing in Great Lakes clean-up efforts--powered by the fact that thi...
08/10/2026

It has been 15 years since federal dollars started flowing in Great Lakes clean-up efforts--powered by the fact that this is a terrific investment in building our . Macomb County, Michigan has been one of the leaders. Join me and other leaders of Macomb County this Wednesday at our celebration of our Great Lakes and great progress we have made in building our water-based economy!

Twenty years after we first made real the multi-billion dollar funding for Restoration, in part by pointing out the tr...
04/12/2026

Twenty years after we first made real the multi-billion dollar funding for Restoration, in part by pointing out the tremendous potential economic impact for this industrial heartland region, we see the results all around us! Read this detailed account of how we all helped our Great Lakes region to grow and thrive anew! From Healing Our Waters - Great Lakes Coalition.

By cleaning up their most degraded areas, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Buffalo have created thriving lakeshore business districts, helped people reconnect with nature, and laid the groundwork for population growth into the future. Learn more about how they’re contributing to the Great Lakes region’s ...

The reason once vibrant older industrial communities across all our democracies are so challenged in making today's tran...
12/15/2025

The reason once vibrant older industrial communities across all our democracies are so challenged in making today's transition to a winning globalized, knowledge economy, is the fact that these regions and their communities were once the path-breakers and engines of national economic power. When this disappears, it leads to pain, sadness, and anger. All these emotions can change when communities & their leaders build on the communities unique industrial heritage and culture--honoring the past while taking it successfully into the future.

Learn how this community chemistry works in the new report from our Transformation Network. Lessons from Newcastle UK's Jane Robinson, Germany's Ruhr region's Jürgen Hein, Erie, Pennsylania's Ben Speggen, Chemnitz, Germany's Pascal Anselmi, Detroit, Michigan's George Moroz. All brought to you by the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College & Adhara Ayndrila.

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Sharing our just published Transformation Network report: Building on Heritage and Culture - A Path to Community Regen...
12/12/2025

Sharing our just published Transformation Network report: Building on Heritage and Culture - A Path to Community Regeneration. It's a summary of insights gleaned from our Jefferson Educational Society hosted transatlantic discussion in which leaders of industrial community revitalizatio, shared their profound experiences in building on their communities' arts, culture, history, and particular identity, to bring new hope, pride, optimism and economic activity to iconic communities including Newcastle, UK; Detroit, Michigan; Erie, Pennsylvania Chemnitz, Germany; and the Ruhr region of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. Authored by Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College Adhara Ayndrila, with contributions by Jürgen Hein, George Moroz, Jane Robinson, Pascal Anselmi, Ben Speggen & more!

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