PBS NewsHour featured Ann Arbor, Michigan as "a city with a vibrant downtown, a cutting-edge information technology incubator, filled with smart young entrepreneurs, and a deli packed with foodies waiting to buy $40 cheese. You might be surprised to find yourself in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The city is like a life preserver, floating in a state whose economy has been sinking for a decade. Across the country, cities like Ann Arbor, homes to big public universities, are well-positioned to survive economic downturns. They bring in tens of thousands of students, all with money saved, earned and borrowed in other places to be spent right here."
University of Michigan, President Mary Sue Coleman, Ann Arbor Mayor, John Hieftje, RPM Ventures, Marc Weiser, University of Michigan’s Center for Entrepreneurship’s Thomas Zurbuchen and Zingerman’s did a wonderful job representing the fantastic entrepreneurial opportunities which not only exist in the Ann Arbor area but can also be used as a road map for state-wide recovery.
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