These are the types of initiatives that will bring more of an educated workforce & high-paying jobs to the region. These are in the pipeline.

Hopefully, the research and educational institutions spinoffs to startup companies

Henry Ford + MSU Health Sciences Detroit Research Building Approved for Planning by Board of Trustees | Office of Research and Innovation

Planning for the new, state-of-the-art research facility in downtown Detroit, part of the Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University Health Sciences’ 30-year partnership, was authorized today by the MSU Board of Trustees...This new facility will allow us to expand our research in cancer and health disparities, fueling innovation and discovery through traditional and new approaches like machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as academically and clinically integrated teams of doctors, nurses, scientists, academics and public health practitioners.
https://research.msu.edu/news/henry-...board-trustees


Henry Ford Health plans 'transformational' $2.5B hospital, developments with Pistons, MSU

The Detroit-based health system plans to tear down the Health Alliance Plan headquarters and construct a $1.8 billion hospital in Detroit's New Center area across the street from the existing Henry Ford Hospital, officials announced at the Pistons Performance Facility. The hospitals and facilities would be connected through a series of bridges, underground tunnels and walkway green space. The new hospital would have 877 beds, the same number as the existing hospital, but a new patient tower would house 350 of those, officials said.

The redeveloped area will be anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford Health academic health care campus, a new 1 million-square-foot facility and patient tower. Differences include an expanded emergency department with space for trauma and behavioral health, intensive care units and technologically advanced operating suites. Modernized spaces include procedural, cardiac catheterization, physiology labs, interventional radiology, as well as robotic platforms to focus on neuroscience and cancer transplant.

The multi-year commercial development led by Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores is expected to create 550 or more residential units, and more than 85,000 square feet dedicated to green space, recreation and outdoor basketball courts, Pistons spokesman Kevin Grigg said.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...l/69884074007/

Dan Gilbert's big move on health care

The Gilbert Family Foundation is helping to establish a 72-bed physical medicine and rehabilitation facility in Detroit with partners Henry Ford Health System and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. The foundation, a private fund created by Dan and Jennifer Gilbert, also announced it is creating the Nick Gilbert Neurofibromatosis Research Institute in Detroit, which will work in partnership with Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University Health Sciences.

The rehabilitation facility initiative is expected to cost $179 million, while the research institute has a total price tag of about $240 million over 10 years, plus another $5 million to cover any possible cost overruns, according to the Gilbert Family Foundation. A $10 million stroke and spinal injury fund will help provide funding care for low-income Detroit residents.


The new 72-bed rehab facility will be managed by Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, a Chicago-based firm that specializes in such care and will occupy three floors of the new Henry Ford Hospital patient tower, totaling 125,000 square feet.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...k/70765369007/


University of Michigan renames Detroit innovation center, expands plans

The University of Michigan on Monday announced new commitments to a $250 million research and education center in Detroit that it is creating in collaboration with real estate billionaire Stephen Ross.


Previously known as the Detroit Center for Innovation, the renamed University of Michigan Center for Innovation will expand programming to boost economic development and job growth for Detroit through graduate education, talent-based community development and community engagement, university officials said.

James Hilton, UM vice provost for academic innovation, who is leading the center's academic programming, said that the project has evolved from one focusing exclusively on graduate education when it was first announced to a more strategic mixed model to usher in a new era of collaboration and partnership with the city. This will include programming and facilities aimed at engaging the business, entrepreneurial and residential communities.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...t/69976611007/