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State Gives Automation Alley a $2M Boost

TROY, MI-The state grant comes just as the Technology Center prepares to break ground on a $1.9-million headquarters on Big Beaver Road, between John R and Rochester roads.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on March 08, 2004

TROY, MI-High-tech start-up companies and small- to mid-size businesses in the area with a high tech connection will be getting a bigger boost from the Automation Alley business support and promotion agency. The Alley’s Technology Center has received a $1.8-million state grant to help entrepreneurs bulk up on new automotive technology products and services.

The extra cash comes at a good time for the Alley, which is to break ground in the next two months on a $1.9-million headquarters, to be built on a two-acre site on Big Beaver Road, between John R and Rochester roads in the city. The facility is scheduled to be completed by the end of August, says Tom Anderson, director of Automation Alley’s Technology Center. The 12,000-sf building will house about 10 Automation Alley employees.

The state grant follows hard on the heels of a $450,000 federal grant for completion of the new headquarters, which will house the Technology Center, Glima Affiliate Network and Automation Alley’s consortium activities.

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