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(FLINT, Mich., June 16, 2014) – Grab your loud shirt, camera and sunscreen; it’s time to Be a Tourist in Your Hometown again! The Flint & Genesee Convention &Visitors Bureau will host the second annual “Be a Tourist in Your Home Town” Saturday, July 19. This one-day event offers residents, and non-residents, an opportunity to see Flint & Genesee with… Read More 

[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 

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 

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 

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 

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