Clear runway for Wayne County's airport city

New bipartisan legislation recently introduced in the Michigan Senate would give Wayne and Washtenaw counties similar advantages that Michigan Economic Growth Authority tax credits recently gave to Wixom. The Next Michigan Development Act package of bills, which I have co-sponsored with Democratic and Republican colleagues, will foster cooperation among local units of government to help them bring new businesses and jobs to their communities -- including an airport city to Metro Detroit.

Because of the MEGA credits approved for companies to locate at the shuttered Ford complex of plants in Wixom, that community is looking forward to cutting-edge high-technology jobs. The legislation promises to do the same for the Aerotropolis project that Wayne and Washtenaw counties are working on. Aerotropolis is a project to stimulate economic development near Detroit Metro Airport by using tax incentives in the proposed legislation.

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