Case Studies

Find out what other cities have done in their quest for cool!

Talent

• Artist Development and Support (Creative Sector Occupations)
  • Art Hop, Kalamazoo 
  • Armory Arts Project 
• Be More Magnetic: Attract and Retain More Creative Sector Residents
  • Promote Student Volunteerism and Connect Students with the Community  
  • Expand the 20-30 Something Young Adult Retention and Attraction Groups and Catalyze the Start of Specialty Groups  
• Expand What You Have: Strengthen and Grow Middle Market Businesses
  • Expanding and Implementing More Workforce Develop and Retraining Programs    

Innovation

• Entrepreneur and Business Plan Competition (Business Formations)
  • Great Lakes Entrepreneur Quest, Ann Arbor (coming soon)
• Early State Investment
  • Michigan Angel Network, MEDC (coming soon)
• Youth Entrepreneurship
  • Get 'em While They're Young: Promote Youth Entrepreneurship    

Diversity

• Corporation Sponsoring Diversity Programs (Integration Index
  • Council for World Class Communities   , Benton Harbor-St. Joseph
• Stir the Melting Pot: Build Diversity and Promote Tolerance
  • Start Early and Promote Diversity and Tolerance on Many Fronts  
  • Attack Inequality in the Creative Sector  
  • Diversity Dialogues (coming soon)

Environment

• Champion Regionalism: Bigger Is Better
  • Capitalize on the Region's Federal Legislative Power and Funding Links  
  • Monitor and Measure Regional Success  
• Downtown Waterfront Redevelopment and Sustainability
  • Detroit Waterfront Conservancy (coming soon)
  • Port Huron (coming soon)
• Historic Preservation
  • Allegan Bridge (coming soon)
  • Jackson Post Office  
  • Peter White Library