MARQUETTE – Fifty-eight Marquette County businesses collectively created 211 new jobs in 2017 and were recognized for their participation in the Plus One Program on Wednesday, February 7th during the Lake Superior Community Partnership’s Annual Meeting. 

Michigan Works! and the Lake Superior Community Partnership’s Plus One program is a program designed around the premise that an employer adding just one employee contributes to the economic development in Marquette County. Since the inception of the program nine years ago, Marquette County businesses have created 3,181 jobs

The businesses recognized for adding jobs in 2017 were: 906 Technologies, Active Physical Therapy, Bald Eagle Harley-Davidson, Bell Forest Products, Inc., Bennett Media Group, Biggby Coffee of Marquette, Brookridge Heights Assisted Living & Memory Care, Café Bodega, Carpet Specialists Carpet One Floor & Home, Chocolay Ace Hardware, Closner Construction, Community Action Alger-Marquette, Compudyne, Contrast Coffee, Eagle Mine, Fraco, Inc., GEI Consultants, Inc., Great Lakes Recovery Centers, Grover Daycare, Honor Credit Union, Integrated Designs, Inc., KADU Designs, Katherine Jarvi Photography, Lakestate Industries, Manpower, Marquette Area Public Schools, Mommaerts Mahaney Financial Services, Inc., MQT Nutrition, National Carbon Technologies, LLC, North Oak Manufacturing, Inc., Northern Michigan University, Ojibwa Casinos, Peak Gymnastics & Fitness, Plan Sponsor Consultants, Potlach Corporation, Queen City Running Company, Range Bank, River Valley Bank, Spotless Results Cleaning, Superior Extrusion, Inc., Superior Eye Health & Vision Therapy, Superior Rehabilitation & Professional Services, Swick Home Services, The Bobber Shop, The Guys’ Place, U.P. General Contracting, U.P. Health System-Marquette, U.P. Home Health & Hospice, U.P. Office Equipment Systems, U.P. Rehab Services, Upper Peninsula Health Plan, Upper Peninsula Power Company, Velodrome Coffee, Women’s Center, Inc., Yooper Shirts, Yooptone Music. 

Please contact Kennan Marana at kmarana@marquette.org or 906.226.6591 x105 for more information or if your business adds a full-time position in 2018.

For more information on the Lake Superior Community Partnership at www.marquette.org.

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For more information contact the Lake Superior Community Partnership at 906-226-6591.

The Lake Superior Community Partnership (LSCP) is the region’s leading resource for economic development, providing a wide variety of affordable and effective development services. The LSCP helps our partners make the connections that matter – between businesses, organizations, leaders and legislators, and provides a powerful legislative voice