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| Your Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce works to help businesses in the region thrive. When our community businesses are growing and prosperous, the entire area experiences a better quality of life through enhanced education, robust health care, and educated work force, strong transportaion systems, great leadership, and so much more. Read on to learn how Chamber activity has made a difference...and how the Chamber continues to take action so that your work is prosperous and so that you have all the necessary resources to make your business better. |
Regional Impact | One Stop | Global Diversity Funding Support: Impacting Economic Prosperity | ||
When the Chamber helps to grow business in our area, it's good for the entire region. For example, Great Lakes Stainless brought 18 new jobs to its Blair Township facility in the past two years; those employees live in five counties, their children attend 10 different schools. | The Michigan Business One Stop is an online resource center. Browse through an array of resources and tools to help you start and operate a business in Michigan.
| In 2009, the Chamber partnered with NMC's Dennos Museum Center to present a new Global Diversity Series. "One of the Chamber's highest priorities is to have an impact on our region's economic prosperity," said Chamber President/CEO Doug Luciani. "A strong arts and culture presense improves the quality of life in our region and, in turn, makes the region attractive to business and employees. The more diverse and globally connected we are, the better and stronger we are as a community." | ||
% MBT | 73 New Jobs! | More to the Story | ||
Chamber members and area accounting firms were surveyed to gather evidence of the hardships and complexity of the Michigan Business Tax and its surcharge. The results went to Lansing lawmakers to reinforce the need for change.
We Are The Pro-Business Voice | In 2009, Michigan state tax credits were approved for Skilled  Manufacturing, Inc. The automotive supplier will now invest more than $8.5 million to expand into the aerospace sector and produce jet engine parts in Traverse City, creating 73 new positiions with an average wage of more than $34,000 per year. The project will also create an additional 95 indirect construction and support jobs. Skilled manufacturing worked with the Chamber's Economic Development Corporation for more than two years; in the summer of 2009, the Chamber led the charge in discussing tax incentives for the company's property investments with the City of Traverse City and job creation incentives with the State of Michigan, resulting in more than $1.3 million in total incentives over 12 years. These efforts resulted in Skilled Manufacturing remaining in Traverse City instead of proposed sites in Arizona and Indiana. |  Bringing new jobs to the region is just the beginning: research from The Michigan Economic Development Corporation predicts that when Hagerty grows, the entire region will benefit, spurring the economy by adding some 776 spin-off jobs. Expansion construction will provide jobs for 138 workers during peak growth phases. Other industries will also benefit, such as health care, accomodations, food service, waste, professional and technical, financial, real estate, and more. Now that's a way to keep the wheels spinning! | ||
We Have So Much Growing For Us | Get On The Broadband Wagon | Can they hear us in Lansing? | ||
The Chamber recognizes and  advocates for value-added agriculture; our local farmers and growers are diversifying in what they're growing and making. In fact, the Chamber was the first to lend major financial support to Taste The Local Difference, a program of the Michigan Land Use Institute. Our area is the national leader in production of cherries (of course!), and harvests many apples, grapes and other specialty fruits and vegetables. Delivered - fresh! - to our local restaurants, markets and groceries, or delivered in a variety of ways throughout the country and world: it's a very tasty business. |  The Chamber is facilitating the expanision of high-spped internet availability across Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau, and Kalkaska Counties. Its Broadband Investment Strategy for the region clarifies the financial investment, infrastructure necessities, and economic benefits of high-speed internet access across urban and rural sectors of the region. Broadband accessibility is a high priority with the Chamber as it is an essential asset for expanding and sustaining the economic and educational opportunities within our region. | Yes they can. Through extension government relations work, your chamber has developed the communication tools necessary to keep you infomred on legislative issues that affect your livelihood. Regular reports that highlight current bill action in the House and Senate are delivered right to your e-mail inbox. | ||
