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Detroit Regional Partnership Launches Interactive Logistics Industry Story Map
The Detroit Regional Partnership (DRP) has identified seven targeted industry clusters with 22 sub clusters aimed at diversifying the region's economy while ensuring access to jobs for all in Southeast Michigan. DRP has identified the strength of the Logistics...
Detroit Regional Partnership Launches Digital Technology Interactive Story Map
The Detroit Regional Partnership (DRP) has launched its second interactive story map (from a series of seven maps) aimed at highlighting the region's digital technology industry while ensuring access to jobs for all in Southeast Michigan. The 11-county Detroit...
Detroit Regional Partnership Launches Corporate & Professional Services Interactive Story Map
The Detroit Regional Partnership (DRP) has launched its fourth interactive story map (from a series of seven maps) aimed at diversifying the region's economy while ensuring access to jobs for all in Southeast Michigan. The 11-county Detroit Region is strategically...
Detroit Regional Partnership Announces Leadership Change; Maureen Krauss Named New CEO, Replacing Barry Matherly
DETROIT, June 17, 2020 (NYSE: DTE) The Detroit Regional Partnership (DRP) today announced Maureen Krauss will become its new CEO. Krauss replaces Barry Matherly, who will be leaving the region due to family relocation requirements. Matherly, who joined DRP...
Detroit Regional Partnership Makes Statement on Racial Injustice and Discusses Deep Prosperity Initiative
Like millions of Americans, the Detroit Regional Partnership is deeply disturbed, saddened and frustrated by the racially motivated murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery – who we'll never forget. We also know that there are countless other...
Detroit Regional Partnership Launches Interactive Mobility and Automotive Industry Cluster Story Map
The Detroit Regional Partnership (DRP) has identified seven industry clusters and twenty-one sub clusters. The targeted and highlighted clusters will diversify the region's economy while ensuring access to jobs for all in the Southeast Michigan...
COVID-19’s Impact on Detroit: A Q&A with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago – Detroit Branch’s Paul Traub
In May 2020, Angela M. Ladetto, Vice President of Business Intelligence and Research, Detroit Regional Partnership, asked Paul Traub, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Detroit Branch, a series of questions about how COVID-19 has affected the...
Twenty Percent of the Detroit Region’s Residents Work in Industries Impacted Immediately by COVID-19
Impacted Workforce According to an analysis conducted by The Brookings Institution, there are 63 industries that are suffering immediate effects from the economic shutdown as a result of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Annually, these industries...
Research, Engineering, and Design: The Talent Cluster in a Talent-Focused World
A New Approach One benefit of starting a new regional economic development organization is the ability to consider new approaches without being tied to previous thinking. At the Detroit Regional Partnership, we developed our strategies based on a deep understanding...
”˜The Motor City’ Partners with ”˜Space City’ to Heighten Awareness for NASA’s Mission to Build the New Lunar Rover
In a collaborative effort to support NASA's Artemis Program to land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024 – the Detroit Regional Partnership is working with NASA and the Johnson Space Center to heighten awareness with “Top-Tier” Detroit-based automotive...
GIS Planning Overview
The Detroit Regional Partnership recently launched a comprehensive properties portal on its website, allowing potential investors to easily access site selection data. Utilizing the award-winning locational analysis ZoomProspector software, powered by GIS Planning,...