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Traverse City

Let’s Put Tourism Dollars To Work For The Long Term

Tourism is here to stay, and the yearly number of visitors to our area continues to climb. It’s no wonder.

Fulfillament: Casey Cowell

“My mission today is to do what I can to develop the year-round, high-value-creation economy in our greater Traverse City area. "
Consider This

Consider This prompts thinking…about thinking

Casey Cowell believes in thinking, so much so that he is a proponent of thinking about how we think.

Consider This: Philosophy For Your Everyday Life

Jordan Lindberg, a Traverse City native, has grown eFulfillment Service into a very successful regional e-commerce company. You can’t compete with Amazon, but eFulfillment Service does...
Traverse City

Traverse City’s Narrative Is Changing; Here’s How To Deepen Our Market Advantage

Our federal tax law, adopted in December 2017, had an interesting and largely overlooked piece of policy tucked in...
Casey Cowell

So what motivates a man whose own company (U.S. Robotics) sold for $6 billion?

His name is on Munson Healthcare’s Cowell Family Cancer Center, he pledged $1 million to...

Casey Cowell & Greg Johnson Take Newton’s Road into the WTCM Studio with Ron Jolly

He helped incubate Traverse City’s startup incubator, and his investment group Boomerang Catapult is working to ...

The New Localism

There is a new dynamic defining what it means to be “local.” In their book “The New Localism,” Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak explain how locally driven economic development ...

Welcome to the Land of OZ!

Our federal tax law, adopted in December 2017, had an interesting and largely overlooked piece of policy tucked in. The measure began in February 2017 as a separate bipartisan effort in the Senate to incentivize increased private investment ...

A Capital Idea!

John Aiken moved his company, Web Canopy Studio, to Traverse City from Indiana 12 months ago. Seven high-paid, year-round workers entered our local economy. John sought to borrow $150,000 to expand his business ...

New Incubator Making an Impact

20Fathoms, our community’s new business incubator and center for entrepreneurship, opens its downtown office at the corner of Front and Park streets this month...
Heat Graphene

Bill Myers and Casey Cowell: Promethient attracts tier one supplier putting Traverse City on the map worldwide.

Boomerang Catapult's Casey Cowell discusses Promethient's Industry disrupting Thermavance technology with Ron Jolly. Thermavance is a breakthrough in personal heating and cooling, allowing ... Listen here

Time For A Change

The last several months have seen some seemingly dramatic job-creation announcements...
Healthcare

Health Is Wealth

Let’s seize the advantage and invest the savings in far better ways. Some companies are doing it right here, right now. Take a look...

Communities With High Speed Fiber Attract New Enterprise

Whether communicating with satellites, developing software to be deployed around the world, mining cryptocurrencies or any number of new and exciting ventures that can happen right here in Traverse City, a common thread is...
Atlas Space Operations

Boomerang – A tale for the future of Traverse City

Mike Carey is a "boomerang." He was born in Detroit, grew up in Gaylord, became familiar with Traverse City and loved it. He took off...

Casey Cowell on Healthcare and Business in Traverse City

We spend twice as much of our GDP on healthcare than most western countries. We just can’t afford to do that…
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