Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Roskam Baking Co. plans to hire 1,500 with $65 million investment in former Steelcase plant in Kentwood

Roskam Baking Co. plans to hire 1,500 with $65 million investment in former Steelcase plant in Kentwood
"'These projects are vivid proof of the economic growth happening in West Michigan,' Birgit Klohs, president and CEO of the West Michigan economic development group The Right Place, Inc., said in a statement."

Interesting that her "vivid proof" of economic growth is moving into an empty building owned buy a company that didn't see vivid proof of any reason to remain in Michigan.

How many "targeted tax breaks" are we going to waste until we learn that it's the "miserable Michigan business climate, stupid" and the answer is to fix the problem, not phony "plans" or "promises" in lieu of real, statewide job expansion?

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