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as we look back over the last year we're

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happy to report successes both in

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traditional Economic Development

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projects as we bring new employers to

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our community and in more

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non-traditional areas such as our work

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and partnership with the shasi county

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landbank my name is Ken Nelson I'm the

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owner of Lifetime metal sales Lifetime

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metal sales produces metal roofing and

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siding and we mainly sell that to

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contractors in about a 75 mile circle we

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are currently producing out of a plant

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in Rose Bush Michigan and we're about to

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open a plant in Perry we got a lot of

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help from uh all the local uh government

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officials from uh sedp um the township

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the counties the cities they've been

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great great for uh for us to work with

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really takes a interest in the process

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um Justin has actually asked us if we

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would be interested in helping other

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local businesses produce parts for them

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uh given the fact that he knows the kind

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of equipment that we're putting in our

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plant never ever have I had an an

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economic development person reach out

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usually that process ends when the

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building is done and it seems like

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Justin is someone that's interested in

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drawing us together well but after that

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process is finished and I I appreciate

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that attention to

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detail if you are someone that is

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considering relocating a business or

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starting a new business consider the

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sedp consider shasi County they've been

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great to work with very detail oriented

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and they're more than just interested in

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you coming in they're interested in

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helping you after you're

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here

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my name is Joshua Hicks I'm an owner at

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uh J&J egg equipment over in Duran

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Michigan uh we are a antique and late

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model uh tractor parts restoration and

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repair facility uh we also sell um a

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large amount of aftermarket tractor uh

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replacement tractor parts as our

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business grew we found that there was a

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ideal location there in chasi County

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where we are currently located that

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allows us to operate within a building

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that holds all of our different entities

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we have different business units for uh

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remanufacturing cylinder heads and

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cranks and a lot of heavy machinery uh

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located inside a building with large

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electrical needs uh we found that in in

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the Duran location that we're in right

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now we've experienced massive growth uh

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two years ago when we first started

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working with the sdp I feel that they

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saw something within us that we didn't

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even see and they knew some of the needs

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that we needed before we even saw them

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it gave us an opportunity to work with

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them to see what New Paths that we

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weren't seeing that they did allowed us

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to be where we are

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today without the sedp and the shasi

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county land bank none of this

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opportunity would would have been

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available to us we wouldn't be within

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shasi County right now uh we'd probably

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still be struggling along the path of uh

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trying to find new places and trying to

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find that extra help that this community

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actually brings to us and and has given

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us the the opportunity to to grow

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within hi my name is Cameron Horvath I'm

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the city manager for the city of Durand

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and I am the vice chair on the shasi

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county landbank so land bank's

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countywide we've done projects in lenon

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some in Duran we've got some slated for

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aaso the townships so the land bank

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gives us tools that we wouldn't have had

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access to one of the tools for the shy

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wasi County Land Bank is blade

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elimination so had we not created the

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land bank these dollars has never been

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appropriated to the to the community 209

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South Oak or the old Simplicity building

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that we call it perfect example of of

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that's utilization City didn't have the

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funds to take care of it on its own we'

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applied for grants in the past but there

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was always some type of red flag or

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stipulation as to why it wasn't going to

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work and this was The Perfect Storm of

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the Stars lining and kudos to our

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Council to take the leap of faith big

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thanks to the shasi county land bank for

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the help and getting the dollars but now

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it's down we've got an end user and

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hopefully a good Community partner going

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forward I'm Barbara Baker omod and I am

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the President of the village of lenon

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the village has been struggling with uh

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blight issues for some time and we've

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been trying to come up with some way of

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taking care of it the community is very

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tighten it we're very very small so we

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don't have a lot of money to uh do that

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but it's really come to a head recently

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and the downtown area was completely um

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decimated with uh abandoned buildings

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and it was looking really really rough

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we had previously worked with Michigan

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landbank and we were thrilled to learn

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that shasi County had uh gotten a land

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bank going and so that has been

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extremely helpful to us and really

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beneficial since we're so tiny and when

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we're trying to deal with uh the state

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of Michigan we still look really tiny so

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it's nice with shasi County that we were

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able to um work together with the new

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land bank and try to get that going and

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they've been amazingly helpful to us we

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were able to get the downtown buildings

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taken down it's a huge huge benefit to

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the Village to be able to work with the

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shasi land bank the land bank and the

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SCP staff have been amazing to work with

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they came to all of our meetings they

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helped us all the time they would come

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to special meetings that we'd call at

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the last minute they were constantly in

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contact and very very helpful and

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responsive 2023 was an exciting year

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fordp and shasi County Business and

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we're looking forward to even more

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successes in 2024

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