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Microsoft buys 316 acres in Michigan for potential data center Microsoft Corp. has purchased 316 acres in southern Kent County from Steelcase Inc. for $45.3 million for a potential data center development, Crain’s Grand Rapids Business has learned. The irregularly shaped vacant property is located south of Grand Rapids in Gaines Charter Township, at the northwestern…

Plans scaled back for large mixed-use project near Detroit’s Whole Foods A scaled-back proposal for a long-stalled development in Midtown calls for construction to start in early January. A public presentation from the development team behind The Mid project on Woodward Avenue north of Mack Avenue and the Whole Foods Inc. grocery store says a…

UM set to buy more downtown Detroit land for Center for Innovation The University of Michigan is expected to purchase more Detroit land in connection with its under-construction satellite campus downtown. The board of regents is slated to consider paying $9.5 million for a nearly 2.3-acre chunk of land owned by the MGM Grand Detroit…

Owners of historic U.P. bank-turned-hotel move forward with an even more ambitious conversion The couple who won national plaudits and big business with their conversion of a historic bank in Houghton into a luxury hotel is moving forward on a second, even more ambitious project in another major Upper Peninsula city. The Vault Marquette, the…