Dexter Research Center plans to expand, hire 47

A longtime business institution in Dexter plans to stay even longer, and create a few more jobs in the process.Excerpt:Sometimes the siren call for strategic partnerships is too strong to keep companies where they were founded. Not so with the Dexter Research Center.The 31-year-old firm has renewed its lease on life by choosing to expand in its hometown, a move that will lead to 47 new jobs in the next five years. The defense contractor has strategic partnerships in Ohio and Massachusetts that were wooing the firm away from Michigan. A $313,000 state tax credit over seven years helped quiet them.”We have always been here in Michigan,” says Cory Ziegler, controller of the Dexter Research Center. “We enjoy being here.”Read the rest of the story here.