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help bring back young _Jews who left
Detroit for other opportunities.
Gilbert added to his downtown
real estate portfolio, purchasing
two more buildings on Woodward
last month, which will be converted
to creative office space for lease to
startups.
An additional 1,000 team members
from several of Quicken Loans' sister
companies will move to downtown
Detroit and occupy space in the
Madison Theatre and First National
buildings when renovations are corn-
pleted in November 2011 and early
2012, respectively.
One of those companies is Troy-
based Mylnsurance Expert, which
will be moving its 100 employees to
Detroit early next year.
"We're in the middle of hiring
another 100 people," said CEO Lorne
We're excited to present this
first issue of Designation
Detroit, the newest monthly fea-
ture from the IN. In its pages,
we'll explore the economic, cul-
tural and social revitalization of
Michigan's largest city through a
uniquely Jewish perspective.
You might wonder why we
thought it important to focus
so strongly on Motown. There
are two reasons in particular:
Without a strong Detroit, we
cannot have a strong eco-
nomic recovery in Southeastern
Michigan.
Jewish leaders and business-
people have a strong tradition
of bringing opportunity, pros-
perity and tzedakah to the city.
In the early 20th century, Fred
Butzel, Rabbi Yehudah L. Levin,
Rabbi Leo Franklin and Albert
Kahn were among the leaders of
growing Detroit.
Later, along with so many
other Jews, Detroit Tigers star
Hank Greenberg, Rabbi Morris
Adler, Rabbi Leon Fram, Detroit
Common Council members Carl
Levin and Mel Ravitz and Jewish
News Publisher Philip Slomovitz
contributed to the central city.
It was Max Fisher who teamed
with Henry Ford II to help
rebuild and reinvigorate Detroit
after the 1967 riots. That tradi-
tion of service has not changed,
and we want to highlight what
those in our community are
doing now to contribute to the
city's resurgence.
Secondly, we need to create
opportunities and reasons for
our children and grandchil-
dren to stay in our community.
Many of today's young people
hunger for an urban lifestyle
in a vibrant city with plenty of
opportunities — like New York,
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Quicken welcomed 2,500 more employees to their new home in the Chase Tower on Oct. 10.
f you work in Detroit, you may
find your commute is getting a
bit slower. That's because more
and more people are working
downtown.
The influx of workers is in no small
part thanks to Quicken Loans, which
this month began moving 2,500 ad-
ditional employees from the suburbs.
Some 1,500 Quicken Loans team
members stepped foot into their
new offices Oct. 10 at the renovated
Chase Tower in the city's central
business district, bringing the com-
pany one step closer to its goal of
relocating all of its Michigan-based
team members to downtown Detroit.
Those employees join 1,700 col-
leagues who moved from the suburbs
to Detroit just 14 months ago when
Quicken Loans and several sister
companies moved their headquarters
to the Compuware Building, situ-
ated at the foot of Campus Martius
Park. An additional 500 people are
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Companies in
downtown
are bringing
more workers
into the city.
expected to be hired from a job fair
held last month.
"This marks the next step in the
effort to transform downtown Detroit
into a work, live and play epicenter
where young professionals come to
plant roots and grow their careers,"
said Dan Gilbert, founder and chair-
man of Quicken Loans, the nation's
largest online home lender.
Gilbert, a leading Jewish business-
man, also is working behind the
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