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University of Michigan Center for Innovation in Detroit

U-M outlines new commitments to Detroit

U-M President Santa J. Ono.

The University of Michigan has unveiled a series of new commitments to the city of Detroit including details of the university’s role in leading the design and construction of the renamed University of Michigan Center for Innovation. 

The UMCI will be built by the university to accommodate the academic and community programs that it will house. Those programs are now expanded to include three distinct types of activity—graduate education, talent-based community development and community engagement—all in the service of economic development and job growth for Detroit, said U-M President Santa J. Ono. 

“Our founding as a university traces back to Detroit, so it’s fitting that we reinvigorate and build on our commitment to the city through this center,” Ono said. “UMCI is essential for our future.” 

The university will handle construction of the $250 million, 200,000-square-foot building planned for the site bounded by Cass and Grand River avenues and West Columbia and Elizabeth streets.

Ono has made the UMCI one of his top priorities. The center, along with the P-20 Partnership at the School at Marygrove, the $40 million Rackham building renovation, the U-M Detroit Center, which opened in 2005 in Midtown, and hundreds of other projects U-M works on with community partners around the city, are examples of how the university has stepped up its community engagement in the city in recent years.

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