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Michigan State Fairgrounds Development
1,200 new jobs in Detroit
In addition to helping to prepare Detroiters for employment opportunities at the new facility, Detroit At Work also will provide training to Detroit residents who would like to start their own companies and become Amazon Delivery Partners.
The City will memorialize commitments to the community through Council resolutions, all of which will be legally binding.
The City will submit (at the same time as the land sale and the master plan amendment is approved) a series of related resolutions.
City Resolutions:
The City will work with Detroit at Work to prepare Detroit residents for positions at the Amazon Distribution Center, and encourage Amazon to give preference to Detroit residents.
The City will work to address non-structural blight, including alley clean-ups, vacant lot cutting, debris removal, park development for youth and community, and illegal dumping.
The City will explore utilizing eco-friendly resources and materials in order to keep in line with the Detroit Sustainability Agenda and further the goal of creating a carbon neutral local economy.
The City will dedicate $500,000 from bond funds for improvements to the State Fair & Havana future park site and Charleston & Colton park site.
The City will work with community organizations, non-profits and churches to establish community partnerships that speed up the development of the impacted communities, and educate residents on employment opportunities and job training.
The City will continue to partner with community organizations to help Detroiters avoid foreclosure through Make It Home, Homeowner Property Tax Exemption, Pay as You Stay, Right of First Refusal, Non-force of movement of property owners and other empowerment programs. The new Detroit Community Health Corps will help inform residents through an unprecedented door-to-door community outreach campaign.
The City will work with SFP to construct dedicated roads within the property that provide pedestrian and non-motorized access to the Transit Center. The City will also work with the purchaser to study pedestrian access and, if appropriate, encourage new connections be constructed on the property.
The City will work with MoGo Detroit to locate a bicycle station at the new Transit Center.
The Planning & Development Department will conduct community outreach and engagement to complete a neighborhood plan that addresses: The impact of new development; plans to eliminate abandoned structures; reuse vacant land; develop parks. P&DD will continue to update the Master Plan for the City over the next ten years with community input.
Through community meetings, the Planning and Development Department will research and explore long term housing and future economic development projects to protect community interest and ensure long term community control, assistance, and involvement.
In each recommended budget, the Office of Budget will complete a reconciliation procedure to determine appropriation to the Detroit Affordable Housing Development and Preservation Fund from surplus commercial land sales, and that if not currently eligible, the impacted community areas in the vicinity of the former State Fairgrounds will be qualified as eligible areas under Section 22-3-7 of the Detroit City Code.
The City will allow a 3-month period to study the Dairy Cattle Building, Coliseum and Agriculture Building (Joe Dumars Fieldhouse) before demolishing them for the Transit Center. Community advocates, P&DD and the DBA may evaluate if the buildings may be reused or relocated.
When land use or rezoning proceedings are taking place for the property the City will:
Host up to two community meetings total if any such hearing or proceeding is requested and;
Solicit community input at meetings and present industrial buffering methods, which the City will recommend to BSEED, BZA, P&DD or the CPC if an applicant seeks applicable land use or rezoning approvals for the Property.
The City will conduct a health assessment consisting of the following:
Air quality baseline testing in and around the Property prior to completion of the first phase of construction on the Property and before the start of operations, so that results can be made available should any future industrial uses be proposed on the Property (in addition to the proposed new Amazon distribution center)
Verify the accuracy of the existing sound and lighting assessments based on the actual conditions of operations.
There are two ways Detroiters can get to work with Amazon:
Amazon Warehouse Team Member
18 years or older with ability to speak and understand English for safety
High school, GED, or equivalent diploma
No Resume or previous work experience required •
Hourly pay rate: Earn$15/hr or more
Receive and put away inventory
Get customer orders ready and pack up
Load boxes into trucks for shipment.
Work around moving machines like order pickers, forklifts, mobilecarts, and possibly robots
Use scanners to scan bar codes on products
Career development, competitive wage and reliable paycheck
Health care starting on day one
Employee discounts, 401(k) savings plans, paid time off and more
Learn more about Amazon benefits here
Become Your Own Boss as a Amazon Delivery Service Partner
Starting in late 2020, Detroit at Work is piloting an Entrepreneurship Training Academy for aspiring entrepreneurs to learn about starting and maintaining a small business. The academy is for those wanting to become Amazon Delivery Service Partners or have their own business idea. Amazon Delivery Service Partners (DSP) deliver packages for the company. As a DSP, residents can own their own business and have the opportunity to expand their fleet and add employees.
The Entrepreneurship Training Academy will provide two tracks:
Course 1: Own Your Own Business 101
Course 2: Amazon Delivery Service Partner Business Basics
To learn more about the Entrepreneurship Training Academy, go to www.detroitatwork.com
THE DEVELOPMENT DETAILS
No tax breaks or public subsidies
Newly constructed 3.8 million square-foot anchor tenant facility
Developer also plans to redevelop the remaining 70 acres with other auto parts suppliers or other job generators
$42-million net benefit to Detroit over 10 year period
Under the terms of the proposed deal, the development team, Texas-based Hillwood and local partner the Sterling Group, will pay $9 million for the land and pay $7 million for a new DDOT transit center.
Developer to pay for cost of any demolition, environmental remediation and construction of facility
Construction could begin as early as October, with an anticipated open date of mid-2022
NEW TRANSIT CENTER
New $7 million state-of-the-art transit center to replace the current one on Woodward Avenue near State Fair.
Center to provide service to 30,000 riders a week from 9 separate bus routes
Offer an indoor waiting area for customers with heat and air conditioning
New Center will improve pedestrian safety
Site will offer clean bathrooms for both customers and operators
Center will provide residents safe, convenient pedestrian connections to the Meijer/Gateway Plaza, the new development at the State Fairgrounds, Woodward Avenue, and State Fair Avenue
Mayor's Office 2 Woodward Ave. Suite 1126 Detroit, MI 48226 (313) 224-3400
GOVERNMENT MENU
Mayor Duggan announces potential deal with Hillwood Investment Properties and Detroit-based Sterling Group to purchase former State Fairgrounds
One of the largest private real estate developers and investors Hillwood Investment Properties, along with local partner the Sterling Group, plan t
Community Benefits Resolutions
Resolution Approving Sale of 20110 Woodward
Fairgrounds Community Assistance & Improvement Plan
Final Appraisal
Sales Proceeds – Park Funding, Valuation
City Planning Commission: Request to amend the Detroit Master Plan of Policies for a portion of the area containing the former State Fairgrounds

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Researchers have synthesized a new series of small organic compounds that could inhibit the activity of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), a small protein molecule involved in aggravating diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and cancer. The organic compounds might yield therapies for MIF-mediated diseases.
MIF cells are expressed in response to infection. They trigger inflammation in diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, diabetes, sepsis, cancer, colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, asthma and inflammatory liver disease.
To find potential drug molecules that can inhibit MIF, the researchers prepared several organic compounds containing isoxazoline. They screened these compounds by developing human MIF (huMIF)-induced inflammation in a cellular model of mouse leukaemic monocyte macrophage cell line.
They found that compounds 1c, 3f and 4b were most active in inhibiting huMIF. Of these three compounds, the researchers found 4b to be the most potent. They tested this compound's ability to bind to huMIF and stop the translocation of nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kB), a protein molecule known to activate small proinflammatory molecules. NF-kB is translocated to the nucleus by huMIF.
Compound 4b attached to huMIF through van der Waals attraction and hydrogen bond formation, and inhibited huMIF-mediated translocation of NF-kB. In studies with cultured mouse macrophage and gastric mucosal cells, the compound proved to be non-toxic. This compound, the researchers say, could be used to fight huMIF-induced proinflammatory diseases.
The authors of this work are from: Indian Institute of Chemical Biology and University of Calcutta, Kolkata and Department of Chemistry, University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India.


This grant is made under the Nanoscale Sciences and Engineering initiative, NSF 01-157, category NIRT, to address the growing interest in developing manufacturing processes and systems that involve fluids at the nanoscale. There also is continuing evidence that fluid phenomena that occur at the nanoscale are unlike macroscopic behavior. For example, some hydrophobic channels will permit liquid water to exist, while only slightly narrower channels will only permit water vapor to exist. Similar phenomena are expected to manifest when evaluating fluids other than water. The proposed experimental, theoretical and computational investigations will focus on the confinement and transport of water, alcohols, amines, and other interesting organic compounds in nanochannels. We will investigate both rectangular and cylindrical geometries with length scales from 1 nm to 1000 nm, and diameters, or widths, from 0.1 nm to 15 nm (or even larger). Surface materials will span the regime from hydrophobic to hydrophilic, considering amorphous and crystalline inorganic materials, and polymeric materials. Additionally, transport rates of fluids through nanochannels will be evaluated. It is anticipated that fluid flow properties and transport rates will be governed by fluid-surface interactions to a far greater extent than observed in macroscopic channels. The investigations at WPI will be complemented by research on flow behavior of nanoparticles in conventional, rotating and circulating fluidized beds performed by the NIRT group at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).
The generic geometry of the nanofluidic system and fluids to be considered are representative of important manufacturing systems and processes. The outcomes of the research have significance to nano-rheology, nano-lubrication, control of nanosurface properties, modeling and simulation at the nanoscale, lab-on-a-chip technologies, and other nanofluidic devices. Biosystems and environmental processes that involve nanofluidic transport through membranes and channels will also benefit from the expected outcomes. The research will be performed by an interdisciplinary team of PIs and graduate students at WPI that will collaborate with the NIRT group at NJIT. Additionally, we have collaborations with researchers in Taiwan, Germany, and Canada that will be of benefit to this effort. This investigation also has a strong educational component and will take advantage of WPI's project-based educational system that requires each undergraduate to conduct a technical team-project (called the Major Qualifying Project, or MQP) and a team-project involving Society/Technology interactions (called the Interactive Qualifying Project, or IQP). Each MQP or IQP is equivalent to a three-course workload. The integration of undergraduate education and research will be pursued with MQPs to be conducted by teams of undergraduates from the three departments where the three PIs reside. In addition, the societal impacts of nanosciences and nanotechnologies will be pursued by a team of undergraduates conducting IQPs. These undergraduate projects will provide means for educating young scientists and engineers in new emerging technologies in interaction with an interdisciplinary research team.


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How WPP CIO Rachel Higham is simplifying IT and rethinking diversity
WPP's new CIO, Rachel Higham, is consolidating IT and rethinking vendor partnerships to support the ad behemoth's business transformation, as well as hit lofty diversity and inclusion (D&I) and sustainability goals.
By Doug Drinkwater
UK Editor, CIO	 Nov 3, 2021 10:00 pm PDT
Rachel Higham
Simplicity is the word Higham uses to describe her north star, and for good reason. Last December, she joined WPP as its first CIO and she's since faced the unenviable task of bringing 40 teams together in one IT group, to support a change in operating model and to design and deploy global platforms for a worldwide organisation serving agencies and blue-chip clients.
For Higham, who has held senior IT positions at BT and Vodafone, the new role represents an opportunity to deliver world-class services while simplifying IT and enhancing business agility for an ad giant trying to stay relevant in an ever-changing market.
Founded by Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP is the world's largest advertising and PR group, housing an array of household-name advertising agencies, from Ogilvy and GroupM to Mediacom, Mindshare and Essence. As it stands today, the company operates in 110 countries, serving clients in every market from the Fortune 500 to the FTSE 100.
Yet like many businesses, WPP saw an economic dip in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Billings and revenue fell year-on-year, according to WPP's annual 2020 report, although revenue increased 19.3% in its quarter to June, with US$2.9 billion of new work in the first half of the year reportedly coming through clients such as AstraZeneca, JPMorgan Chase and Bumble. The company is now targeting 3%-4% growth in 2022.
Reporting to CFO John Rogers, Higham arrived at an organisation changing direction with IT. There had long been a core infrastructure group providing compute, storage and networking capabilities but WPP wanted to consolidate the entire IT function and bring all agency technology together.
Consolidating IT, building global platforms
This has meant consolidating agency IT, building global platforms, simplifying processes, bringing teams together and investing in productivity, collaboration and security tools to serve the breadth and depth of an organisation with 140,000 staff. For Higham, the job is about serving the business, rather than necessarily leading it
"I think CIOs often fall into the trap of trying to lead a transformation; you actually need to follow a broader transformation and be in service of it," says Higham.
The immediate task for Higham has been to change the 'break-fix' model of IT, and to develop one unified group able to support WPP in its bid to better serve agencies and employees.
Progress has been made through WPP's three transformation 'layers'. The company has looked to introduce a new operating model, implement product-centric and design thinking principles, and adopt cloud-first architecture to simplify its IT estate, while being able to serve colleagues and clients at scale.
Higham describes WPP's technology vision as centring on 'dynamic infrastructure platforms', which allow the organisation to quickly build solutions and pivot to market changes.
As part of this, Higham's team — which conducted research into some 4,000 employees to understand IT pain points and future needs prior to developing the WPP IT strategy — has sought to build a zero trust global network for single identity management, to connect all collaboration and productivity tools across the company and create global platforms to help manage clients, digitise creative and production workflows and tap into employee specialisms.
Public cloud is key to sustainability efforts
A key element of the strategy was WPP's roll-out of Microsoft Cloud Studio for cloud-based content creation, production and editing, with Azure cloud compute, storage and services providing the infrastructure and scale for the platform. To support hybrid working, WPP is also now piloting Surface devices.
Simplifying the IT estate may be high on Higham's to-do list but so too is sustainability. And it's here that the IT function has taken a novel approach to vendor partnerships.
WPP has a commitment to reach net zero carbon emissions in its operations by 2025 and across its entire supply chain by 2030. Higham thinks technology has a key role to play.
"We're putting a holistic plan together and looking deep into our supply chain. How do we inspire and incentivise our partners to step up to the ambition that we've set, and then help us close the gap? If we look at technology, we are 6% of our Scope Three emissions that we've committed to halving by 2030," Higham notes. "I think we can actually beat that — I think I can probably take around 60% of all of our energy-led emissions out of our technology estate."
While moving to the public cloud is one of the biggest levers WPP can pull to achieve sustainability goals, instrumenting their buildings and deploying smart building and community management solutions in new campuses will also have significant impact, Higham says.
The WPP CIO believes WPP can reduce building-to-building emissions by between 20% and 30% through technology, but also points to the storing and archiving of data, of using logs in the server estate to intervene before they fail and even simplifying processes so employees send less energy-sapping email attachments. A grander plan is to reduce data centre carbon emissions by 60%.
Diversity and inclusion goals include partners
There's also work to do on D&I within IT, as Higham openly acknowledges. While WPP publicly announced in its 2020 diversity report that 51% of senior leaders are female, with 40% sitting at executive level, the company is still striving to get the numbers in the tech function on an upward trajectory.
"If you look at IT, we are lower than the organisational average. We're at 17% gender diversity, which is not where we need to be. But in this last seven months, we've moved our intake from 17% women to 34%."
To achieve this, WPP pushed for more diverse lists for interview panels and looked at how they describe advertised roles internally and externally. Higham has also been developing internal training programmes, ensuring her own leadership team is open to all, including neurodiversity, and invested in team coaching. The WPP CIO expects to see the same intensity from her providers.
"As we select partners … even in their pitch to us … did the people around the table have equal share of voice? Did they turn up with an all-male Caucasian team? Can they talk to us about the meaningful interventions they've put into their organisation to shift the dial on those diversity measures, and prove it out?"
This, says Higham, extends to using quarterly business reviews to show diversity improvements and has now led to WPP partnering with five of its key outsourcing partners on a gender diversity development programme. Some are doing better than others; one WPP partner introduced a 400-person testing team in India, comprising 72% women and 68% of people under the age of 30.
Separately, WPP has worked with Workday on the Seedlings training programme to close the Workday skills gap, launched activities for mothers returning to work and NextGen Leaders for college students and recent graduates. The firm is also pushing its apprenticeships and graduates programmes for more diverse intakes.
"Let's not just fill it with the usual candidates," urges Higham. "Let's fill that talent gap with new diverse talent pools. That's people who are returning to work, people from poor socioeconomic backgrounds, different ethnic diversities, but who wouldn't normally consider this as their viable route for them.
"Let's invest, give them the skills they need, create a great talent pool for the market and then we can all fight for it."
Where next for WPP?
The WPP CIO says the next six to nine months is where the 'rubber hits the road'.
"It's about living up to our commitments around co-designing these new global platforms, making sure we get a rich set of inputs from all our agency businesses, all our geographies, all the different layers of our organisation," Higham says.
"Those are the two focus areas; building out the future skill-set and continuing the great work on D&I, and then delivering on our commitment to co-design our new platforms as well making quick things on to help people cope with hybrid working."
Doug Drinkwater is an experienced technology and security journalist, whose work has appeared on CIO, CSO, InfoWorld, Internet Business Times, Macworld, Mashable, PCWorld, SC Magazine and The Week, among other publications. He is the CIO UK editor at IDG.