In the days and months ahead, we look forward to continuing to get to know our new neighbors throughout the region and, together, making the case for expanding business in Detroit. Our success will be due in no small part to the Detroit Regional Chamber and the powerful Mackinac experience.
Murray Feldman of Fox 2 News Detroit interviews GalaxE’s CEO Tim Bryan for Job Shop about bringing jobs to the city.
A video that gives an overview of how GalaxE.Solutions leading IT provider plans to open up a new software development facility in downtown Detroit to reinvigorate business with high tech jobs in 5 years.
Dan Gilbert, founder and chairman of Quicken Loans Inc., has moved nearly 2,500 workers to downtown Detroit from Livonia in recent months. The move wasn’t altruistic; rather, Gilbert believes Detroit is on the cusp of creating a technology hub in the heart of its central business district.
GalaxE could have settled in Southfield or Flint (Bryan looked there) but ultimately decided that planting a growing IT company in downtown Detroit would make a statement, and help attract other high-tech businesses to what Quicken Loan’s Chairman Dan Gilbert calls “Webward Avenue.”
Quicken Loans owner Dan Gilbert hopes his company’s move to Detroit will help create a technology hub downtown. The online mortgage giant says in a release that 1,700 workers will work downtown when Quicken and several sister companies move their headquarters to Detroit in August.
A 20-year-old New Jersey-based IT company has hired its first 20 people in downtown Detroit — enroute to plans to hire 500 people over the next five years. GalaxE Solutions Inc. is setting up shop at its new Detroit development office at 1001 Woodward Ave., the former First Federal of Michigan building, across Woodward Avenue from Compuware Corp. and Campus Martius park.
A few parting thoughts –– and quotes –– from last week’s Mackinac Island shindig, as folks looked forward to what will come out of the Detroit Regional Chamber’s annual policy conference.
He should know: He’s making Detroit an integral piece of his 20-year-old company’s expansion plans, bringing 500 tech jobs to renovated offices in the 1001 Woodward building at Campus Martius. “You get business to locate here and you bring downtown back into play.”