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Also not really much new news, but more of a confirmation. And a rendering.

How Corktown came out on top in search for home for $148M manufacturing institute

July 23, 2014. Kirk Pinho.




The $148 million American Lightweight and Modern Metals Manufacturing Innovation Institute will locate this fall in a vacant 99,000-square-foot Corktown building instead of a Canton Township location that was previously pitched.

Crain’s reported last month that Corktown — and specifically the building at 1400 Rosa Parks Blvd. announced today — was the location the institute was considering after German 3-D printing company Voxeljet AG leased the space that the institute wanted in the Haggerty II Corporate Park near Haggerty Road and Michigan Avenue.

We also heard a month ago that Mayor Mike Duggan’s administration had been lobbying the institute to come to Detroit after learning that the Canton site fell through, real estate sources told me at the time.

“To win a competitive process for a project of national significance is a major win for the city,” Duggan said in a statement Wednesday. “Detroiters should expect to see us win a lot more in the future.”

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