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[caption id="attachment_3909" align="alignright" width="115"] Tim Herman, CEO[/caption] Over the past 10 years, more than $100 million has been invested in the redevelopment of downtown Flint. Uptown Reinvestment Corporation and Uptown Developments have worked together to transform the area from a series of boarded up buildings to a thriving downtown business district – one where people are living, working, eating, spending… Read More 

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The Flint & Genesee Chamber of Commerce along with economic development partners in the I-69 International Trade Corridor and the MI Green Thumb recently released the results of a first-of-its-kind Regional Wage and Benefit Survey, which was conducted in collaboration with the University of Michigan-Flint.  The survey, which includes aggregate data from a seven-county region, projected increased hiring and minimal… Read More 

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The Flint & Genesee Chamber is partnering with First Merit Bank to host a Business Leaders for Michigan Regional Leadership Forum. The event takes place on Tuesday, June 24 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at FirstMerit Bank headquarters at 328 S. Saginaw in downtown Flint. Sandy Pierce, Chairman & CEO of FirstMerit Bank and Tim Herman, CEO of the… Read More 

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Looking for fun in Flint & Genesee?  Need Flint & Genesee products to send to friends and family?  Then visit the new Flint & Genesee Convention & Visitors Bureau Visitors Center at the New Farmers Market in downtown Flint.  The new center is slated to open on Saturday, June 21. According the Cheryl DeFrain, Director of the FGCVB the new… Read More 

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Want to become a power networker? Then join the African American Advisory Committee of the Flint & Genesee Chamber of Commerce as they present the Power of Networking.  The Lunch & Learn event takes place on Friday, June 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Riverfront Center, University of Michigan-Flint School of Management & Entrepreneurial Leadership. Jennie Dumont,… Read More 

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Establishing a global brand is not easy, but JoAnne and Julius Shaw had a vision in 1976 that has burgeoned from humble beginnings to incorporate more than 100 U. S. locations, 20 global locations and products distributed from coast-to-coast and around the world.  The Made in Flint & Genesee company uses time-tested principles to hone a family business approach that… Read More