Washington-based Digital Marketing Firm to open offices in RenCen, hire 150

[Spartan]

Here's some great news for Detroit, and it's even an outside company, not just displacement

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2.../BIZ/304240444

[jt1]

At least people can still complain about tax incentives since they can't complain about the company just displacing jobs from the suburbs to the city.

[dmike76]

Ha! I was thinking it would've been nice to get them without the abatement, but I'm not worked up about it. Outside businesses are key to this region's recovery.

[Eber Brock Ward]

The company ... chose to locate in Detroit over locations in suburban Chicago and Seattle, where ADP Digital Marketing is based.

Pretty key.

[Honky Tonk]

Ha! I was thinking it would've been nice to get them without the abatement, but I'm not worked up about it. Outside businesses are key to this region's recovery.

ADP, eh? Maybe they could send a salesperson over to the COD Payroll Department.

[Shollin]

150 new jobs from an out of state company is progress.

[subsidized]

150 new jobs from an out of state company is progress.

What just happened here?!?

[jt1]

I don't understand why they would have moved in the city with tons of better options. Now the people that work there are going to have to drive hundreds of miles, battle gun fire and pay income tax. They're better off not submitting their resume for a job there in the first place

[Shollin]

What just happened here?!?

In the Campbell Ewald thread I stated very clearly I supported firms from out of state adding new jobs to Detroit.

[313WX]

In the Campbell Ewald thread I stated very clearly I supported firms from out of state adding new jobs to Detroit.

Just because one supports the movements of jobs from the suburbs to the city doesn't mean they don't also support jobs from out of state moving to the city.

That said, either way you flip it, a region where the jobs are centralized in one area is much healthier in the long term than a region where they're sprawled every which way.

I'm not sure why that's so hard for you [[and a few others) to understand.

[subsidized]

In the Campbell Ewald thread I stated very clearly I supported firms from out of state adding new jobs to Detroit.

I know, I remember, I'm just messing around.

[Shollin]

Just because one supports the movements of jobs from the suburbs to the city doesn't mean they don't also support jobs from out of state moving to the city.

That said, either way you flip it, a region where the jobs are centralized in one area is much healthier in the long term than a region where they're sprawled every which way.

I'm not sure why that's so hard for you [[and a few others) to understand.

I have no problem with downtown Detroit being a core for jobs. However just taking jobs that have been established in the suburbs and moving them downtown without creating a single new job does not help the region. Adding new jobs to a centralized core does.

[MSUguy]

I have no problem with downtown Detroit being a core for jobs. However just taking jobs that have been established in the suburbs and moving them downtown without creating a single new job does not help the region. Adding new jobs to a centralized core does.

It does the help region, the moving these suburban has clearly helped the downtown core in big way and that reflects positively on the entire region. Since the image of a city's downtown generally defines the region to outsiders more than it's suburbs. Those suburban jobs have made downtown and ultimately the region more attractive to outside investment like this, which we all agree is the real key to bringing back the city.