News from Sarah Lucas and Lake Superior Community Partnership, sharing the U.P. Perspective:
“We really wanted to move to Marquette, but we couldn’t find a house – everything’s selling too fast.”
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News from Sarah Lucas and Lake Superior Community Partnership, sharing the U.P. Perspective:
The Marquette County Ambassadors are making their trip to Lansing this week – again virtually.
News from Sarah Lucas and Lake Superior Community Partnership, sharing the U.P. Perspective:
If the number of times the U.P. has been left off of US maps is any indication, it’s safe to say that Marquette County is considered by many to be, well, remote.
News from Sarah Lucas and Lake Superior Community Partnership, sharing the U.P. Perspective:
They say change is the only constant, and though we know it’s true, last month we got even more data to prove it.
News from Sarah Lucas and Lake Superior Community Partnership, sharing the U.P. Perspective:
Marquette County and the U.P. have been spending a lot of time in the economic spotlight over the last couple weeks.
News from Sarah Lucas and Lake Superior Community Partnership, sharing the U.P. Perspective:
As the summer wears on – or flies by, as the case may be – the impacts of our current labor shortage become more and more inescapable. Employers are trying to get by with less staff, especially for service jobs. There are many reasons for the short supply of workers– but one we return to again and again in economic development is the lack of affordable child care.
Designation facilitates private investment, improves economic development opportunities
LANSING, Mich. – For its efforts in establishing a solid foundation to attract private investment and further build on municipality assets, the city of Marquette has been awarded the Redevelopment Ready Communities (RRC) certification, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced this past Thursday.
News from Sarah Lucas and Lake Superior Community Partnership, sharing the U.P. Perspective:
Big business is always big news, dominating headlines and driving the dialogue on economic policy. But even as they demand our attention by sending their owners into space, down here on earth, we know there’s a lot more to the economy than giant companies, and that bigger isn’t always better.
News from Sarah Lucas and Lake Superior Community Partnership, sharing the U.P. Perspective:
No matter the industry, there are jobs out there going unfilled, and it’s been one of our biggest economic recovery concerns.
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