by The Ann Arbor News
Sunday July 19, 2009, 10:46 AM
Casual observers of the state's troubled economic scene may feel they'd have to search a long time for tangible evidence that provides a glimmer of hope - and a significant potential for future jobs.
Actually, they won't need to look far - if General Electric's recent decision to establish a center in Wayne County's Van Buren Township becomes a full-scale reality. As reported in the Ann Arbor Business Review, GE's Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center will perform research and engineering operations for renewable energy technology and wind turbine manufacturing.
We're talking about the often-stated visions for an alternative energy industry that affirms the skills and knowledge of manufacturing and engineering workers - many now unemployed - at a time when Michigan has been taking blow after blow to its economic base and suffers with the nation's worst unemployment rate.
GE spokesman Peter O'Toole offered the Business Review some compliments for the state's technological brainpower when he reviewed goals of the $100 million center.
"We want to get started quickly - and if you're looking at an area that has a broad expanse of very talented people with advanced expertise and advanced degrees, it's there in abundance in Michigan," O'Toole said.
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