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Talking with TechTown's Howard Bell

Model D has a great profile of Howard Bell, executive director of Detroit technology incubator TechTown and Detroit's "entrepreneurial economic czar." After two years, TechTown (a nonprofit community of entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, service providers and corporate partners) has nearly filled its first building and is looking to develop its second. According to the article, Bell thinks the stars are aligned for Detroit and the state:

In a region and state that struggle with a vision for the future, Bell is a visionary. The onetime New Yorker, Bell says the future lies in bucking the sprawling trend in Southeast Michigan, building the future in the shell of old urban factories, creating an environment that will draw aspiring entrepreneurs to live and work within a university research environment, and employing the resulting energy to create a dynamic urban district.

Read Aligning the Stars of TechTown from Model D
Visit TechTown & the TechOne Business Incubator

Posted/updated Jun 27, 2006
by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan)