Month: March 2021

Pfizer Inc. broke ground, today, March 31, on one of the world’s most technically advanced sterile injectable pharmaceutical production facilities–known as Modular Aseptic Processing (MAP)–in Kalamazoo, Michigan. MAP is a multi-story, 420,000-square-foot production engine that is expected to add approximately 450 new jobs in Kalamazoo County. Several Michigan elected officials were in attendance. Pfizer announced […]

The Kalamazoo County Health & Community Services Department is reporting that health care partners such as hospitals, federally qualified health centers, pharmacies, and local public health departments have administered 128,649 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Kalamazoo County residents. This represents 37.8% of residents over the age of 16 who have received at least one […]

Jordan Thomas, graduating this year from the Western Michigan University (WMU) Product Design Program, is searching for a career opportunity in the community where he can help better people’s everyday life through design. Interested mostly in airline design and the soft goods industry, Jordan excels at collaboration and has a great deal of thoroughness and […]

Alexa Dyer, graduating this year from the Western Michigan University (WMU) Product Design Program, is looking for an employment opportunity upon graduation. Alexa loves working on unique and creative projects and is interested in working at a design consultancy to experience different variations in projects. Her dream job would be to work at Disney Imagineering. […]

Recent data is showing that seasonally unadjusted jobless rates moved up in eight of Michigan’s 17 labor market areas between December 2020 and January 2021, according to data released from the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget (DTMB). “Michigan regional labor market trends in January were primarily driven by workforce reductions,” said Wayne Rourke, […]

Emily Tuskan is a student at the Western Michigan University (WMU) Product Design Program who is graduating this spring and looking for an opportunity to use her skills and experience in a professional setting. A hard worker with an outgoing personality, Emily is open to working in any field or industry in product design and […]

Jake Faculak, graduating this spring from the Western Michigan University (WMU) Product Design Program, is a motivated designer with special skills in foresight and time management who is looking for a professional career opportunity after graduation. Jake has always been interested in the tool design industry and has a heavy background in carpentry and plumbing. […]

Danialle Baumgardner, graduating from the Western Michigan University (WMU) Product Design program, is hoping to find an employment opportunity in the community. Danialle is particularly interested in Color, Materials, Finish (CMF) design in the automotive industry, but doesn’t want to limit herself to a single industry. “I like to think being a contextual and futuristic […]

Meet Lucas Zuleta, a senior in the Western Michigan University (WMU) Product Design program, who will be graduating this year and is searching for an employment opportunity in the community. Lucas’ strong skills in communicating by sketching and telling a story through a product could be an impressive addition to your team. Lucas is interested […]

Longtime local experts in the development of display products, Consort Display finalized the purchase of a building they have rented for about 15 years in the Edison neighborhood. This building is just one of many in the area that Consort works out of. Supporting this process was Brownyn Drost from Southwest Michigan First, who said […]

When the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in Michigan and emergency orders shut down the state in mid-March 2020, most people believed we’d be back to normal after a month or two. Now a full year in, and we are all continuing to face questions and learning to navigate ourselves and our communities through […]

Looking for an affordable place to lay out your “Home, Sweet Home” welcome mat? If so, Southwest Michigan is a great choice. Kalamazoo continues to hold its place in the top five places in the U.S. with the lowest cost of living, closing out 2020 in the number two spot. Among the 269 urban areas […]