On May 6th, Ford Motor Company announced it was investing $550 million to transform the Michigan Assembly Plant in the city of Wayne from a large SUV factory into a modern, flexible small car plant.
One of the oldest cities in the region, Plymouth, with a population of 9,000, is doing what it's always done -- and done well: nurture a walkable community which is joined to a vibrant downtown with a central square anchored by Kellogg Park, a setting that the American painter John Singer Sargent would have relished to put on paper with washes of brilliant color.
Turkia Awada Mullin, an assistant Wayne County executive, was named the new director of Economic and Neighborhood Development by Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano. She sits down with the Wayne County EDGE to discuss her what she does and what she'll do for Wayne County.