Construction is well underway, now, on Accident Fund's giant-assed parking garage...
As for Google, just about every city applying for it fits the technical requirements for the service. That's not at issue. And, Hayward being from Saginaw of all places, I think he knows that "Genessee County has 429,000 people, not all of which are poor." but his point was a pretty good one. Truth is, that I don't think it's unsafe to assume at all that Google is going to seriously only consider university towns and/or towns with considerably more economic activity (and towns with a potentially stable/growing customer base) than say a Flint, and I say that as a fan of the place. To be honest, Ann Arbor and Lansing/East Lansing are probably the only ones in Michigan being seriously considered, and they probably aren't the tops. Places like Topeka can forget about it.