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County Finds New Economic Development Chief

DETROIT-Wayne County is hiring Mulugetta Birru, most recently executive director of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, to lead its economic development efforts.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on June 10, 2004

DETROIT-Wayne County has a new economic development chief. Mulugetta Birru, who spent 25 years in various economic development positions in the Pittsburgh area, has been named the first executive director of the Greater Wayne County Economic Development Corp., Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano says.

Since 1992, Birru had been executive director of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh. Birru also has been president of the Pittsburgh Economic & Industrial Development Corp. since 1995.

Ficano says Birru’s experience of dealing with the cyclical nature of the steel industry in the Pittsburgh region should translate well to the Detroit area, where the auto industry is king. Birru also will lead the county’s revamped Economic Development Department, which oversees $15.3 million in community development block grants and $27 million in New Market tax credits.

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