This EDA investment supports the detroit regional partnership foundation coalition, with their proposal to leverage the detroit areas expertise in the automotive industry and enter the growing…

This $499,999 Economic Development Administration project grant supports the Detroit Regional Partnership Foundation Coalition's proposal to transition the Detroit region's automotive expertise into the advanced mobility industry. The Coalition will invest in three pillars with the funding: Company Innovation and Transition, including startup incubation and helping legacy companies transition to advanced mobility; Talent Transformation, focusing on increasing workforce diversity and skills training for advanced mobility; and Foundational Infrastructure, developing testing sites and industrial parks for advanced mobility products and marketing the region to related firms. The two-year award from the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration began in December 2021 under the Economic Adjustment Assistance program, which provides technical and planning assistance to regions experiencing adverse economic changes.

This EDA investment supports the detroit regional partnership foundation coalition, with their proposal to leverage the detroit areas expertise in the automotive industry and enter the growing advanced mobility industry to create jobs in the regions 11 counties surrounding the city of detroit. If provided an implementation grant, the coalition proposes to make this pivot by investing in three pillars: company innovation and transition, which will invest in startup incubation and legacy-company transition into advanced mobility; talent transformation, which will focus on increasing diversity in the workforce and skilling for the advanced mobility sector; and foundational infrastructure, which will develop testing sites and industrial parks for advanced mobility products, and market the region to advanced mobility firms.