Pricey Lansing area,
As your regional financial growth group, the Lansing Financial Space Partnership (LEAP) works to create enterprise alternative and group prosperity throughout Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham counties, uniting companies massive and small with individuals, authorities and schooling to correctly place us to win funding tasks in a extremely aggressive world and nation.
These tasks are the one method to create good numerous jobs, develop our youthful inhabitants which is our future workforce, create extra clients for our predominant avenue companies and generate new income so our native municipalities can present the standard companies and enhancements like colleges, parks, river trails, police, fireplace, roads, social applications, and charities.
In 2026, LEAP will have fun 20 years of driving balanced development and financial alternative. In that point, LEAP’s tasks have straight created 10,941 good jobs, attracted $7.3 billion in new funding and launched 398 firms. That is all finished by means of the numerous partnership efforts at state and native ranges with LEAP. We couldn’t be extra grateful for the numerous companies and builders who select to maintain their tasks right here.
These successes don’t occur by chance. They’re the results of years of intentional, collaborative work with continuity over time offered by the management from our private and non-private companions, together with our devoted LEAP Board of Administrators.
Bob Trezise is president and CEO of the Lansing Financial Space Partnership.
In 2025, we’ve got seen outstanding progress together with:
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The Lansing/East Lansing Metropolitan Statistical Space (MSA) gained 5,400 new jobs since summer time 2024, second solely to metro Detroit statewide.
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Ionetix, an MIT spinout particle accelerator firm making medical isotopes for most cancers remedy, relocated their Bay Space headquarters to Lansing amenities and expanded manufacturing operations in Delta Township, investing $25.75 million and creating 53 new jobs.
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LG Power Resolution made nice progress towards finishing and opening their state-of-the-art facility, bringing as much as 1,700 jobs to the area. A whole bunch are being actively employed as of summer time/fall 2025.
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Canadian automotive elements provider Markdom is actively executing its first U.S. manufacturing funding, and in 2026 will launch operations of an expanded facility in Charlotte, creating 160 new jobs.
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LEAP’s Small Enterprise and Innovation staff continues to rebuild our native financial basis, serving to launch 113 new small companies, spurring $30.8 million in funding and follow-on funding, $40.1 million of enterprise income, and 529 new full-time equal jobs throughout the area. And 76 of those small, predominant avenue or tech companies opened “brick and mortar” areas.
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In partnership with the Lansing Regional SmartZone, MSU Analysis Basis, MSU Innovation Middle, and the Burgess Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, we held our first-ever, regionwide 517 Entrepreneurship & Innovation Week, with the second deliberate for April 6-10, 2026.
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This fall, with help from Lansing Neighborhood Faculty and MSU, LEAP launched CreativeTech, a brand new initiative centered on mobilizing and increasing one of many world’s quickest rising cluster of industries proper right here at house.
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In 2025, LEAP submitted a Revitalization and Placemaking (RAP) grant to the Michigan Financial Growth Company (MEDC). The outcome: LEAP grew to become the one largest RAP recipient within the state, touchdown $2.7 million for 12 communities throughout the area. Which means new farmers’ markets and streetscape and park enhancements that may profit neighborhoods for years to return.
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By means of LEAP’s administration of the area’s first-ever childcare coalition of suppliers, employers, mother and father and different nonprofit leaders, over 100 new daycare slots have been created in our area.
We’re proud to construct on our current Web site Choice journal recognition as one of many nation’s High 20 financial growth businesses. And this yr, LEAP gained two Silver awards from the Worldwide Financial Growth Council (IEDC) for our small enterprise help work.
It’s our honor to battle alongside you all for our hometown area’s future!
Bob Trezise is president and CEO of the Lansing Financial Space Partnership.
An aerial view of the LG Power Resolution plant in Delta Township.
This text initially appeared on Lansing State Journal: Trezise: LEAP creating enterprise alternatives, serving to communities prosper