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Capital Region Support IMPROVEMENT
CAPITAL REGION
Package Essential REQUEST
SUPPORT PACKAGE
OVERVIEW
he Lansing Regional Chamber of CAPITAL REGION OVERALL
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FUNDING REQUEST
Commerce and more than a dozen BREAKDOWN
Tregional and statewide organizations
have joined together to embrace the
Capital Region Improvement Support
Package. This package includes funding
requests to the state of Michigan for ON-GOING STATE AID
projects and services that will combine CAPITAL CITY STATE PARTNERSHIP SUPPORT: $4.67M
to provide proactive steps to revitalize ONE-TIME INVESTMENTS
Lansing’s central city and the region. OVERALL FUNDING REQUEST: $530M
Support for this package is necessary to
provide for anticipated growth coming to
our region in the next few years. $175.5M $165M
Economic $64M
Education, $77.8M
Development Skills Training, Water & Roads, $3-5M $28.5M
Among the key items in the proposed & Community & Workforce Electric Transportation, Social
Revitalization Infrastructure Services Housing
package is $15 million to help kickstart Development Investments & Connectivity
Infrastructure
the development of the Michigan
Training Innovation Center right here REGIONAL
in Mid-Michigan. Using federal COVID PARTNERS STATEWIDE
relief dollars that remain unspent, we PARTNERS
can use one-time money to create a
growing hub of knowledge, creativity
and leadership for future generations.

Tim Daman, president & CEO, Lansing
Regional Chamber of Commerce
and Jason Mellema, superintendent,
Ingham Intermediate School District
recently authored an article in the
Lansing State Journal in which they
touted the potential the Innovation
Center offers the region.

“Here in Lansing we are creating learning content that Laboratory, students learn
can keep building our state’s future. We’re not alone in best through experience and simulation, retaining more
recognizing the power of XR technologies. In adopting than 75% of the information versus 5%-10% after hearing
the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, Congress identified a lecture. Even better, virtual content is 100% replicable
“immersive technologies” as a and affordable once it’s been
key focus area. The act funds created. This allows for solutions
billions of dollars for research and VISIT accessible to all.
investment. Regions that have the BIT.LY/3XOA2UW
infrastructure and partnerships in OR SCAN THE We’re eager to partner with state
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place will benefit greatly. DOWNLOAD THE policy leaders to ensure we can
CAPITAL REGION continue to transform the lives
After all, what’s more OVERALL of students – and our economic
compelling to a young person FUNDING future – through virtual and
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— the opportunity to practice BREAKDOWN augmented reality.
welding, the culinary arts or
other vocational experiences We’re asking the Michigan
in an immersive, interactive Legislature for $15 million to help
environment, or simply being lectured about it? The kickstart the development of the Michigan Training
research agrees: according to the National Training Innovation Center right here in mid-Michigan.” l

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