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“This should put all of us on notice including
government leaders that we will be coming
back and measuring how we are doing,” said
Anderson. “The we are going to face both the
areas where we have done better and the areas
where we didn’t do better. That kind of discipline
is the hallmark of championship teams in nearly
every sport, successful businesses, and successful
communities.”

Lansing 2025 Pathway to Prosperity will serve as
the action strategy coming out of the inaugural
State of the Lansing Region Benchmarking
Report. In the immediate future, the group plans
several steps, including:

• Updating 2019 data to reflect the Covid-19
crisis impact;
• Convening investors to proposed next
steps with the Lansing 2025 Pathway to
Prosperity;
• Hosting a business roundtable to
introduce the State of the Lansing Region said Daman. “We are not creating new initiatives As the project partners move to implement the
Benchmarking Report and determine the or organizations. There is a lot of work being State of the Lansing Region action strategy, they
next steps; done in these areas now. We have to focus on know there is room to build upon the Lansing
• Convening a Lansing 2025 Pathway to how we facilitate and bring some of this together region’s many assets. The region currently benefits
Prosperity steering committee to propose to get people working in tandem.” from Michigan’s favorable tax climate and access to
alignment with existing regional economic excellent higher education and research institutions.
plans. The State of the Lansing Region partners also Leveraging the enormous strengths, the region
plan local and statewide media relations outreach, already possesses will place Greater Lansing in a
“There is going to be accountability from the and local government roundtables to introduce better position to tackle head-on the opportunities
steering committee and the business community,” the action plan. that exist to take the region to the next level. n

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