Growing Hope is an Ypsilanti-based nonprofit that promotes dirty hands. Ok, not really. But they don't mind if you do. What they really promote is community gardening and education, and they finally have a home on Michigan Avenue, west of downtown Ypsi.

Michigan is the place to be for the summer. Well, hopefully. Pure Michigan is launching an ad campaign that is larger in scope than years past. They have $17.5 million to work with, nearly $5 million more than last year.

Transforming and revitalizing Detroit won't be cheap. So, it's a good thing One D just received this pretty nice gift - 800 grand in grants.

Ann Arbor Spark, a talent and business incubator for Southeast Michigan, just received a boost in funding from Superior Township. Spark had been looking for contributions to expand their offices from Ann Arbor into Ypsi. Looks like they got some.

Parent's don't want their kids experimented on? What, you serious? OK, so, all joking aside, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital produced a report on such a thing. It's not really so much experimentation as it is medical research. The other side of this coin is that, through such research, advances in medicine are discovered.

Good news, dudes. A report released Tuesday by the Economic Development Coalition of Southeast Michigan on business attraction and expansion successes during 2007 said four big ones were invested into the region. Nope, not $4, or thousand, or million - but $4 billion!

C.S Mott Children's Hospital has some new construction going on. No, not a new wing filled with state-of-the-art medical equipment. It's actually a bit smaller and not so high-tech. But it is for the kids. It's the Mott Storybook Cottage. When it's all said and done, it'll be a 90-square-foot playhouse, built by local companies with local materials.

"Aerotropolis" is the 25,000 acre zone that lies between Detroit Metro Airport and Willow Run Airport. And, finally, after 12 years, the acreage may be ready for development. The hope is that this "hub" will attract and become home to logistics companies, international headquarters, mixed-use developments and spin-off services.