GRAND RAPIDS MEDICAL MILE CONTINUES THE EXPANSION ON MICHIGAN STREET AT THE CORNER OF MONROE AVENUE NORTHWEST WHERE YOU FIND THE DOUG MEYER BUILDING CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

INNOVATOR BOLD ADVANCED MEDICAL FUTURE HEALTH ALSO KNOWN AS BANFF WILL CALL IT HOME AND BROKE GROUND ON THE NEW NORTH AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS NEXT DOOR SANDY IS CUSS THE FUTURE OF LIFE SCIENCES AND WEST MY AND PRIVATE PUBLIC ON WEST MICHIGAN WEEK.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US US ON WEST MICHIGAN WEEK IN THE MIDST OF THE PANDEMIC.

MOST OF THE PROJECT PLANNED WELL IN ADVANCE THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE WRIGHT PLACE CALLED THE THIRD LEG OF THE MEDICAL MILE SCHOOL WELL CURRENT HEALTH CARE PREVUEDER AND RESEARCHES AND EDUCATORS BOOING THE OTHER TWO LEGS HERE TO DISCUSS RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND THE BIGGER LIFE SCIENCE AND ECONOMIC PICTURE ARE GREGORY McCORMICK, VICE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH CARE MARKETING INSIGHTS AND ANALYTICS DR. ANTHONY CHAIN CEO AND BANF RANDY OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION THE RIGHT PLACE AND JEREMIAH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR FOR THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS, THANK YOU, ALL, FOR BEING HERE.

WE ARE GOING TO START OFF WITH RANDY, KIND OF GIVE US THE BIG PICTURE OF HOW WE HAVE ARRIVED WHERE WE ARE TODAY.

>> YEAH.

PATRICK, THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR HAVING US.

THANK YOU FOR HOSTING THIS CONVERSATION AND I THINK THIS PAST YEAR THROUGH THE PANDEMIC, IT IS REALLY A SIGN OF WEST MICHIGAN AND HOW FAR WE HAVE COME AS MARKET IN TERMS OF LIFE SCIENCE.

I CANNOT IMAGINE TEN YEARS AGO THE VACCINES FOR GLOBAL PANDEMIC WOULD BE ON WEST MICHIGAN, SO INCREDIBLE MOMENT FOR THE REGION.

YOU AD ON TOP OF THAT.

ROUGHLY 80 COMPANIES THAT ARE MAKING MEDICAL DEVICE WHEN THE CALL WENT OUT A YEAR AGO, OVER A YEARALING, FOR PPE, OUR MANUFACTURING COMMUNITY STEPPED UP.

THE DESIGN AND ENGINEERING COMMUNITY STEPPED UP.

WE PRODUCED THE SAFETY EQUIPMENT FOR THE WORLD AND TO THINK HOW FAR WE HAVE COME IN A ROLETIVELY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME OVER THE PAST 25 YEARS IS TRULY EXTRAORDINARY SAN THE LUXURY OF COMING BACK TO THE MARKET.

PATRICK BLISHED OUT OVER THE LAST TWO CONTINUE YERS OR SO AND MOVED BACK TOON SEE A REMARKABLY IMPROVEMENT AND ADVANCEMENT WES MADE AS A REGION REALLY MANIFESTS ITSELF IN BRICK AND MORTAR ACROSS THE REGION.

WHILE WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DEVELOP OFF OF THE IDEA WAS NOTHING SHORT OF REMARKABLE AND WE ARE NOT DONE AS THE PROJECT SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT TODAY AND THERE IS ANOTHER COME.

YEAH.

YOU GO BACK TO 1996.

JI AND BETTY VAN ANDEL, RIGHT?

PROVIDE THE INCENTIVE WHERE ARE THE CASH TO BEGIN THE VAN ANDEL RESEARCH UNCITY INSTITUTE OPENED IN THE YEAR 2000.

PETER THEN SEIZED THE OPPORTUNITY THERE MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MOVING THE MEDICAL SCHOOL TO GRAND RAPIDS GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY RIGHT HERE BEGINS CONSTRUCTION ALONG THE MEDICAL WHILE THE MEDICAL PROGRAMS AND NURSING SCHOOL SO YOU ARE SEEING THIS BUILD UP OVER TIME AND WHERE WE'RE TODAY ALONG WITH THE HOSPITALS THAT HAVE BEEN IN PLACE AND THEIR PROGRAMS THAT HAVE BEEN EXPANDING OVER TIME.

HOW DO WE COMPARE SAY WITH THE REST OF THE U.S. OTHER CITIES, ALSO, INVOLVED IN LIFE SCIENCES.

CLEARLY, THE TOP.

IT IS WHAT?

NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, IT IS THERE, SAN FRANCISCO AND RAP WE LIKE PITTSBURGH OR HOW WOULD YOU EQUATE GRAND RAPIDS AS FAR AS PECKING ORDER IN THE COUNTRY.

AND WHAT WE COULD BECOME.

YEAH.

YOU KNOW, THINK YOU IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE OUR GOALS SHOULD NOT THE BIGGEST, RIGHT.

YOU ARE LOOKING AT MAYO CLINIC.

HOUSTON.

THE CLINIC AND THE LIKE.

WE'RE NOT COMPETING.

BUT WE CAN COMPETE AND THE BEST SORT OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS MODEL TOLL LIFE SCIENCES IN THAT REGARD, I THINK THE CORE STRENTH US THE AGILITY, THE INNOVATION AS WE SEE EVEN MANIFESTED DOWN THE PARK AND DR. CHANGE AND THE TEAM WILL BE CALLING HOME.

I THINK, BE THIS, THIS REALLY HIGH LEVEL OF ADAPTABILITY, QUICK RESPONSIVENESS AMONG THE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER AND THE RESEARCH TEAM IS REALLY WHAT SETS US APART.

DR. CHANGE COULD HAVE TAKEN TO ANY MAJOR METRO IN THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD FOR THAT MATTER.

I BELIEVE HE DOES THIS MARKET BECAUSE WE WERE ADAPTED AND THE WAY WE APPROACH ON-LINE LIFE SCIENCES OR MAYBE WE'RE NOT GOING TO FIND BUT WE CAN FIND AND REALLY MAKE IMPACT ON THE WORLD.

>> WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS BUILDUP THAT WE HAD HERE, THE ROLE OF THE CITY AND THE ECONOMICS INVOLVED IN ALL OF THIS, WE HAVE BEEN WITNESSING OVER THE LAST 25 YEARS.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR GRAND RAPIDS.

HOW DO YOU WORK WITH ALL OF THE PARTNERS TO CONTINUE THAT GROWTH.

>> SURE.

SOL WHAT OUR JOB IS AS WELL AS THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO THET RIGHT CONDITIONS, RIGHT, FOR INVESTMENT.

AND YOU KNOW, WE HAVE DONE THAT OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS.

PEOPLE GIVE AWAY BEFORE ME AND MANY OF US HAVE BEEN AROUND IN SETTING THOUGH CONDITIONS NOR MOMENT, RIGHT?

AND SO WE HAVE TO BALANCE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTING, PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT, AND THE EDUCATION AND BE HEALTH CARE AND THE LIKE AND THOSE VISIONARIES WE HAD 25 YEARS AGO PUT A CHAL REG ARE LENGTH AND SAID HERES HOW WE WILL KICK-START THIS IN ORDER TO BE SUSTAINABLE WE NEED TO DO THESE OTHER THINGS, RIGHT?

AND SOS, AS IT GETS INTO FOLKS MAKING INVESTMENT WES GOT TO MAKE SURE WE CAN FIND WORK FORCE AND TALENT AND OTHER STRUCTURE THINGS AND MAKE SURE, PEOPLE IN AND OUT, AND DIRECT TRAFFIC AND THOSE INVESTMENTS, RIGHT.

FROM THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STANDPOINT THAT MATTERS, RIGHT?

FOLKS ARE COMING IN, HOW ARE YOU ENVISIONING THIS TO LOOK, HOW HOW ARE YOU ENSURING THAT MY INVESTMENT WILL BE SORT OF RISK AND MONEY REDUCED IN TERMS OF WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR FOR MY BUSINESS AND WHAT IS THE RIGHT THING FOR THE COMMUNITY VOW BEEN BLESSED TO COME HERE SIMILAR TO RANDY OVER THE LAST YEAR AND TODAY MARKS ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF BEING WITH THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS AND THE MEDICAL MILE PIECE WAS HUGE PART OF THAT AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE LIFE SCIENCE CAPABILITIES ARE.

OBVIOUSLY, WE ARE ABLE TO CELEBRATE WHAT HE WAS DOING AT THE MSU AND THEN WHAT WE GOT AT THE OTHER END OF THE CAMPUS SO YOU PUT THOSE TWO THINGS TOGETHER.

THOSE ARE NICE BOOK ENDS TO A GREAT PROJECT THAT AGAIN STARTED A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO ON THE GRAND RAPIDS INNOVATION THE GRIP CAMPUS AS THEY CALL IT, A RIGHT.

THAT IS IMPORTANT FOR HOW WE SET CONTINUE!

CONDITIONS TO GET HERE TODAY AND HAVE THIS DISCUSSION.

>> HOW DO YOU DETERMINE RETURN ON INVESTMENT.

YEAH.

YEAH.

SO A LOT OF THINGS, RIGHT.

YOU GO PROJECT BY PROJECT BASIS AND SEE THAT AND WE CAN SEE THIS WITH BOTH THAT IT MADE SINCE TO PROVIDE THOSE PARTICULAR INCENTIVES TO HELP MAKE SURE THEY GET THERE AND OURS WHY IN TERMS OF THE BIGGER PICTURE IN STOR RIFF THE INDUSTRY, RIGHT.

HOW DO THEY IF IT AND PROVIDE THE EXCLAMATION POINT TO THOSE OTHER INVESTMENTS THAT ARE THERE AND SPECIFICALLY AND YOU KNOW, COMMERCIALIZING HEALTH CARE AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AND THERE IS TREMENDOUS RY AND I THINK, THE OTHER PIECE OF THE RY WAS HOW THE OVERALL COMPETITIVENESS TO TELL YOUR STORY GLOBALLY, RIGHT?

ASKED RANDY, HOW DO YOU COMPARE THE MARKETS?

WELL, RAE LAIL IS NOT EVERYONE IS LOOKING FOR THE LARGE MARKETS, RIGHT?

EVERY COMPANY IS DIFFERENT.

WE HAE TO LISTENING TINTLY AND SAY HERE IS WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER.

HERE IS WHAT THE DEMO GRAPHICS LOOK LIKE.

HERE ARE THE ASSETS.

I WOULD SAY BY PER CAPITA.

WE'RE HITTING PRETTY, PRETTY HARD ABOVE OUR WEIGHT WHEN WE PUT THAT UP AGAINST THE LARGER MARKETS YOU REFERENCED.

ALL RIGHT.

FIGURE OUT HOW PERIGO DETERMINED THIS WAS THE LANDING SPOT.

THIS IS A QUOTE FROM PERIGO PRESIDET AND CEO.

IT IS NOT YET SEEN BY THE COME IN THE WHAT I BELIEVE IS THE BIGGEST OF ALL OPPORTUNITIES WHICH IS TO MAKE THIS THE SILICON VALLEY OF SELF-CARE.

WE WILL TURN AT THIS TIME OVER TO GREGORY McCORMICK WHO IS AT PERIGO, WHAT IS YOUR BOSS TELLING US.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING HERE AND WHAT ARE THE EXPECTATIONS.

YOU KNOW.

MURRAY STARTED AS CEO OF THE COMPANY BEEN 2.5 YEARS AGO.

HE HAD A VISION ARE OF TRANSFORMING PUERTO RICO ERIGO TO A SELF CONSUMER ORGANIZATION.

AND MOVING THE NORTH AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS TO GRAND RAPIDS IS JUST ANOTHER STEP IN THAT TRANSFORMATION FOR OUR COMPANY, WHAT HE IS TELLING, I THINK YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE LAST 1 MONTHS WITH THE PANDEMIC, CONSUMERS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT HOW DO THEY TAKE BET IR CARE OF THEMSELVES BUT HOW DO THEY DO IT FROM HOME SO THE CONDITIONS THAT THEY ARE DEALING WITH DON'T GET OUT OF HAND IT PUTS THEM IN THE HOSPITAL OR TURNS INTO A CHRONIC CONDITION.

THE BUSINESS MOLD IS ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES AT HOME.

TAKE CARE OF THE FAMILIES AT HOME SO THEY DON'T GET TO THE THE OTHER STAGES.

WHAT IS NICE THIS FACILITY IS IT IS LOCATED WITH OTHER INDUSTRY EXPERTS THAT ARE RELOCATING TO DOWNTOWN GRAND RAPIDS.

WE'LL HAVE ACCESS TO THOSE PEOPLE IN THOSE PARTNERS.

WE GOT GREAT RELATIONSHIPS WITH MICHIGAN STATE AND THE COLLEGE OF HUMAN MEDICINE, WE'RE PARTNERING WITH THEM ALREADY ON CLINICALS AND RESEARCH TO HELP FACILITATE SELF CARE AND GET INDUSTRY THOUGHT LEADERS WE WOULDN'T HAVE AC STONES THE PAST THAT WILL BE LOCATED IN THIS SPACE, SO ITATION GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR PERIGO TO ACTUALLY DELIVER AGAINST THE DIVISION WE SET FOR OURSELVES.

>> IF I RECALL, MURRAY AND I HAD A CONVERSATION AND PE, HE ADMITS WE ARE FOLLOWERS, RIGHT YOU?

ARE TAKING THE BRAND NAMES PRODUCTS THEN MORE BROADLY DISTRIBUTING THEM AS GENERICS SAWN MENTIONED THOSE PARTNERSHIPS.

HOW DOES THAT THEN SHIFT TO BECOMING THE LEADER.

1:00.

>> WELL, THINK, WE ARE THE LEAD HE WERE IN STORE BRAND.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE BUSINESSES IN WHICH WE COMPETE.

WE ARE THE WORLD'S BIGGEST PLAYER.

IN STORE BRAND WHICH IS A FAST MODEL.

WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS OUR RETAIL PARTNERS ARE ACTUALLY COMING TO US AND ASKING US TO DO SOMETHING THAT IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN THE BRANDS ARE DOING.

OUR FOCUS IS PURELY ON THE RETAILER, THE SHOP AND THEIR STORES, AND PROVIDING THEM SOLUTIONS, SO WALMART OR MEIJER WANTS US TO DEVELOP A UNIQUE SOLUTION THAT IS A SELF-CARE SOLUTION FOR THEM AND HAPPY TO DO THAT AND THE ACCESS TO THE RESOURCE THAT'S THE MEDICAL MILE GIVES US IN THIS INNOVATION PARK WILL ENABLE US TO DO THAT MUCH FASTER.

ALL RIGHT.

YOU HAVE BEEN PATIENT.

BUT BOY, YOUR TECHNOLOGY IS BREAKTHROUGH STUFF, I KNOW THIS CAN TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO DESCRIBE, BUT PLEASE DO, BECAUSE I THINK, IT IS SO IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND, THIS NEW BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY, WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE REGION, AND FOR PATIENTS WHO ARE DEALING WITH CANCER.

>> EXACTLY.

>> THAT IS WHY WE'RE HERE.

WE'RE HERE TO TRY BRING THIS CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY AND THE REASON THAT EXISTED EXISTS IS ACTUALLY TRYING TO, TRYING TO, TO MAKE A PAY MAY SHENT BECOME PEOPLE AGAIN.

WE BELIEVE RIGHT NOW FOR THE 20-30 YEARS.

WE HAVE A LOT OF EVENTS IN TECHNOLOGY IN CANCER TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSIS, BUT THERE IS STILL ANOTHER REALLY KIND ROUGH REALLY ACHIEVED SATISFYING LEVELS, AND THIS KEY DECKNOLOGY THE BEST POSSIBLE PIECE IS WE ARE TRYING TO BRING TO THE PATIENTS AND MOLECULAR IMAGING THAT IS ENOUGH INVASIVE TECHNOLOGY TO ALLOW US TO SEE ACTIVES IN PATIENTSES IN OTHER WORDS WE CAN DO WHOLE BODY AND WITHOUT DOING ANY DOING ANY POKING.

AND THE OTHER THING IS MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY, SO BASICALLY, WE CAN DELIVER THE RADIO ISOTOPE, THE RADIO ISOTOPE EVERY TUMOR WE CAN FIND AND MAKE IT ATTACH TO BURNING 24-7 FOR FOUR TO SIX WEEKS, SO THESE TECHNOLOGIES, FIRST, WE HAVE A DRONE GETTING TO THE DESIGN AND LOOKING FOR THE CANCER OR DISEASE AND ONCE WE IN ZEKE THE PATIENTS AND OVER THE BODY ONCE THEY FIND IT.

THEY WILL FINE-TUNE IT.

AT THAT MOMENT WE PUT PATIENTS UNDER SO WE WILL KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THE DISEASE ARE.

HOW MANY DISEASE OR TUMORS ARE THERE AND HOW IT IS.

SOME IT IS TO IDENTIFY THE TARGET THEN WE CAN START USING THERAPY MEANING WE SEND TO THE PUBLIC THIS TIME.

IT DOESN'T CARRY THE CAMERA ANY MORE.

THIS STARTS CARRY THE ATOM TICK BOMB.

THESE ARE GETTING TO THELE TARGET AND IDENTIFYING AND START BURNING THAT.

WITHOUT HURTING AROUND.

THIS US THE REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY.

WE ARE NOW TREATING PATIENTS BUY USING THE METHOD ANY MORE.

WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE TREAT SOG WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE SENDING AND THE RIGHT DOSE.

WE NEED TO SEND AND ALSO WE CAN MONITOR THE RESPONSE OF THE TUMORS TO THESE TREATMENTS ALONG THE TIME.

SOP THAT IS WHY WOE CALLED IN TILL GENCE BASED PRECISION MEDICINE.

WE'RE TURNING IT INTO USEFUL INTELLIGENCE AND USE THIS PACIFICALLY INTELLIGENCE TO TREAT A PATIENT RIGHT IN FRONT OF US.

WHEN BE THIS BEGIN?

HOW MANY PATIENTS?

WHAT IS THE SUCCESS FLAT?

SO THIS TECHNOLOGY ACTUALLY BELIEVE IT OR NOT.

STARTED FROM LIKE ALMOST 80-90 YEARS AGO.

SO THIS CONCEPT IS DEVELOPED BY DR.

HEARS AND THE FIRST BEGINNING OF USING THIS CONCEPT IS TREATED AND SUPPORT CANCER SO INJECT THE RADIOACTIVE TO IDENTIFY THE THYROID CANCERS ARE THEN ONCE WE IDENTIFY THAT.

WE RADIOACTIVE IODINE INTO THE PATIENTS AND TO BRING THE CANCER OUT.

THAT IS WHY WE USE IT TODAY.

IT IS NOT REALLY, IT IS VERY RELATIVE CANCER, HOWEVER, LIKE FOR OTHER TYPE OF CANCER, BECAUSE TECHNOLOGIES IS NOT AND WE NEED TO IDENTIFY TARGETS DIFFERENT FROM EYE ODIN AND ALSO BE ABLE TO TARGET TASHGET MOLECULES WITH THE RADIO ISOTOPES AND TAKES ABOUT 80 YEARS AND ALL OF THOSE TECHNOLOGIES TOGETHER WHERE WE'RE TODAY.

IT IS IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO GET INTO THESE ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO.

I BUS THE NEW ERA OF TRYING TO LEAD SO I GOT A LOT OF TRAINING AND RADIO IMAGING PROCESS AND MEDICAL PHYSICS AND CLINICAL MEDICINE SO COMBINED WITH ALL OF THESE THINGS, THIS IS THE TRUE DISCIPLINE A RY FIELD AND THIS IS A TIME TO MAKE IT AND RIGHT NOW WE ARE SUCCESSFUL IN TREATING THE TUMOR CANCER AND NUMBER ONE IS A NEWER TUMOR.

I AM RARE CANCER BUT THAT IS IT AND IN GERMANY PEOPLE HAVE OVER TEN YEARS AND THEN THERE IS OVER 60 PERCENT OF PATIENTS WHO RESPOND TO THESE COUNTRIES AND THE END OF THE LIFE AND SURVIVOR RATE IS WAY HIGHER THAN WE HAVE WITHOUT USING THE NEW TECHNOLOGY AND HAS APPROVED THE METHOD ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO AND IN THE UNITED STATES.

AM VERY BIG.

ABLE AND YOU KNOW IT WOMEN BE THE MOST COMMON CAN THEN WORLD YOU KNOW IN THE UNITED STATES RIGHT NOW.

AND ALMOST EVERYBODY GOES THROUGH THE SAME COURSE AND HORMONE THERAPY AND DRUG RESIST TEN CHEMOTHERAPY AND DRUG RESIST TEN AND PATIENT SO WE STARTED DOING A CLINICAL TRIAL IN GERMANY WITH OUR HOSPITAL AND WE HAVE A WAY TO IDENTIFY AND VERY SK HE ISFUL AND WE HAVE OVERNIGHT OVER 90% OF CANCER WHICH CANNOT SEE.

AND WE CAN START USING THE TREATMENT AND BASED ON THE CURRENT AND WE HAVE IN COMBINED WITH THE OTHERS FROM THE PART OF THE WORLD.

AND PATIENT RESPONDED TO THERE COUNTRY OR 50%.

THE MOST EXCITING PART IS COMPLETED AND ALSO WE SEE A PORTION OF PATIENTS CAN MAINTAIN FOR VERY LONG PERIOD OF TIME.

SO VERY, VERY EXCITING AND PROMISING TECHNOLOGY THAT IS WHY WE WANT TO BRING YOU BACK TO THE UNITED STATES 6:00 AND PART NEGOTIATING WITH THE UNIT AND THE HOSPITAL SYSTEM TO INITIATE LARGER SCALE TO TECHNOLOGY TO SEE HOW WE CAN IMPROVE THE OUTCOMES TO A PATIENT BY COMBINING USE.

>> SO BEHIND THE SCENES WHEN YOU HAVE A COMPANY LIKE BANF AND ALL THE BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIESES THAT I IS PROVIDE AND PERIGO THE SYNERGY THAT TAKES PLACE.

BEHIND THE SCENES, WHAT IS GOING ON WHEN YOU HAVE CORNERSTONE PRIVATE COMPANIES MOVE TO TOWN.

WHAT IS THE NEXT STEP?

I GUESS ANOTHER QUESTION IS, LAND ACQUISITION IN THE CITY, PRETTY TOUGH TO FIND PROPERTIES OUT THERE.

MAYBE ON GETTING A STEP AHEAD HERE IN THE CONVERSATION BUT YOU KNOW, TAKE ME THROUGH THE NEXT STEP WHEN WE HAVE THESE CORNERSTONE COMPANIES.

I WOULD SAY SUCCESS BREED SUCCESS AND WE CONTINUE TOP GO ABOUT THIS SECTOR HERE IN WEST MICHIGAN AND THE MORE SUCCESS WE HAVE AND THAT EFFORT AND WE ARE SEEING THAT ALREADY.

I ALSO THINK COMING OUT OF A PANDEMIC.

WE HAVE A GREATER APPRECIATATION FOR THE FAMILY AND ANOTHER NEIGHBOR AND TRENDS AND YOU ARE GOING TO SEE YOUNG PEOPLE FLOCK INTO THE HEALTH CARE SECTOR IN WAYS YOU HAD BEFORE.

WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

YOU WANT TO SORT OF IMPACT THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND THE NEIGHBORS OR COME TINS.

THERE IS PROBABLY NO BETTER SECTATOR DO THAT THAN THE HEALTH SCIENCE AND QUICK SEARCH BEFORE WE DID THE SHOW TODAY AND BEEN 3,000 OPEN POSITION IN THE HEALTH CARE DOINGOR AND WE OPENED THAT IT UP ACROSS THE REGION AND CLOSER TO 5,000 AND SON THERE IS PLENTY OF JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND YOU KNOW, I AM SURE HE GETS SIMILAR COMMENT INTERESTS THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY OFFEN.

THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCERN IS WILL THE KIDS HAVE JOBS HERE THAT CAN KEEP THEM CLOSE TO HOME.

THIS IS A FIELD THAT IS ACTUALLY GROWING AND EVEN HERE TODAY AND WE GOT TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITIES AHEAD OF US THIS.

IS ONE OF THOSE FIELDS WHERE KID CANNOT AND WILL CHOOSE TO STAY IN WEST MICHIGAN.

WHAT ARE AREAS IN TOWN WHERE THERE IS BUILD OUT POTENTIAL.

HOUR.

AND HEADING EAST, RIGHT.

WHAT HA THAK LOOKS LIKE IN THE FUTURE.

WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS I WAS WANT TO MAKE.

AND WHAT HAPPENS THIS IS.

WELL, WE ARE LITERALLY BECAUSE OF THIS PROJECTS ACROSS THE WORLD.

TO SEE THIS THE MEDICAL MILE TOLL SEE WHAT PERIGO IS DOING.

THAT IS ATTRACTION IN ITSELF.

THEY JUST WOW.

THIS US SOMETHING, RIGHT.

YOU HAVE IT ALL WITHIN THIS AREA.

YOU ARE RIGHT.

THERE IS WHERE DO YOU PUT THEM IS THE QUESTION.

NOW.

RIGHT.

WHAT I CAN SAY IS.

62,000 SQUARE FOOT IN THE SAME BUILDING AVAILABLE WHERE PERIGO IS GOING.

RIGHT.

WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T MENTION THAT.

THERE IS STILL 100,000 SQUARE FEET AVAILABLE WHERE THE CENTER, RIGHT?

SO THERE IS ENOUGH SWAYS, SO AGAIN WE HAD TO CREATE CONDITIONS FOR THEM TO BE THERE.

RIGHT.

HEY.

DO YOU WANT TO BE NEXT DOOR FOR THE MEDICAL CENTER.

DO YOU WANT TO BE NEXT HERE TO HOSPITAL.

DO YOU WANT TO BE NEXT DOOR THE INDUSTRY AND NEXT, A DO YOU WANT TO BE A PART OF AND IN THOUGH BUILDING OR YOU CAN BE NEXT DOOR.

RIGHT.

AND THAT IS HOW WE, THAT WAS THE FOCUS OF THIS INNOVATION PARK, RIGHT?

SAYING HEY, HOW DO YOU BUILD DENSITY IN AN AREA THAT HAS LIMITED SPACE.

THERE IS NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT.

THATTATION CONCERN FOR US.

IN THE FUTURE.

THAT GOES THROUGHING WHAT WE DO AS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WORKING WITH PLANNERS AND STRUCTURE AND ALL OF THOSE OTHER THINGS WHICH MENTIONED EARLIER CAN OI COCK DATE FUTURE GROWTH LIKE TO.

>> TO POINT OUT, PATRICK.

I MEAN, DENSITY IS RELATIVE, RIGHT.

SOME PROJECTS LIKE OF COURSE WANT ABC LOU DENSITY NEEDED CONNECTED TO THE RESOURCES AT VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE OR MSU AND SPECTRUM BUT ALSO TREMENDOUS HEALTH SCIENCE OPPORTUNITIES ACROSS THE REGION.

RIGHT.

WE HAVE OTHER ANCHORS LIKE MERCY, METRO, ST. MARY'S AND BEA BEYOND.

RIGHT.

AND ACROSS LEGION, THEN, THEN, FOR THAT, THAT IS TREMENDOUS.

THAT'S IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS BUT NOT IN THE SAME BUILDING HER TO SAME BLOCK.

YEAH.

YEAH.

I THINK REALLY GOOD POINT.

RIGHT.

REGIONALISM MATTERS, RIGHT?

FOR SOME OF THESE DESUGGESTIONS THAT PEOPLE MAKE.

THAT DRIVES THE PROM PROXIMITY.

I WANT TO BE 30 MINUTES AWAY.

OR 40 MINUTES OR HEY I WANT TO BE IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT.

AND WE, IN OUR REGION.

WE GET OFFER BOTH OF THOSE.

THAT IS GREAT.

RIGHT.

PLUS DISTRIBUTION CENTER NOT FAR AWAY.

THATS THE STRENGTH OF A MARKET LIKE OURS.

THAT WE CAN COMPETE FOR GLOBAL PROJECTS LIKE THAT.

>> GREGORY, WHAT IS THE PLAN FOR LEVERAGING YOUR LOCATION AND PARTNERING WITH THE RESEARCHERS AND THE HOSPITALS?

WE STARTED PARTNERING WITH MICHIGAN STATE PROBABLY 12 MONTHS AGO FOR RESEARCH AND CLINICAL WORK IN A COUPLE OF KEY AREAS THAT ARE HEALTH CARE CONDITIONS THAT WE ARE FOCUSED ON.

WE ARE ALSO WORKING WITH THEM ON SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES WHICH ACTUALLY INTERESTING PIPES BACK TO SELF-CARE.

SO HAVING ACCESS TO THEIR RESEARCH SCIENTISTS, AND THEIR ACADEMIC STAFF IS RITE CALL FOR US AND WE ALSO SEE POTENTIALLY SOME OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE BUSINESS SCHOOL AT MICHIGAN STATE AS WELL.

ADDS WE TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW DO WE CREATE MESSAGING AND CONTENT AROUND SELF-CARE AND THE NEW IDEAS, SO IT MAY OPEN UP SOME OPPORTUNITIES WITH THEIR BUS NEGOTIATION SCHOOL.

I THINK THAT IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST CRITICAL THINGS.

THE OTHER THING IT DOES IS AS WE BRING IN NEW PARTNERS INTO THIS INNOVATION SPACE.

THEY ARE GOING TO BE BRIDGING IN DIFFERENT IDEAS.

DIFFERENT WAYS TO NOW IN VATE.

THAT GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY AS A COMPANY TO LEARN FROM THEM.

PERHAPS, WE CAN TEACH THEM SOME THINGS AS WELL.

AT THE END OF THE DAY, IF WE'RE ALL FOCUSED ON THE SELF-CARE FISSION ARE VISION.

THE IN TIRE SOCIETY WILL BENEFIT FROM THAT.

AND WE ARE REALLY HERE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN HELP KEEP CONSUMERS LIVES HEALTHIER AND HAPPIER.

>> IN THE LAST MINUTE.

THIS IS OPEN TO ANYONE HERE.

THEN LAST MINUTE, WHAT IS NEXT.

WHAT IS NEXT.

WHAT ARE WE SEEING DONE THE ROAD IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS?

>> MAYBE.

MAYBE.

THAT IS A RANDY QUESTION.

>> I THINK ANDEN IN NY IS ON TOP OF.

WILL TAKE A QUICK STAB.

THE CONNECTION OF ALL ASPECTS OF OUR ECONOMY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SO CONTINUE TO SEE INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, ENGINEERING AND HEALTH CARE PROVEERS ALL ATTACHED AT THE HIP AND SEEK CONCEPT TOP PRODUCTION TO DISTRIBUTION, THAT IS CONTINUING TO BUILD OUT THAT MUSCLE HERE ACROSS WEST MICHIGAN.

A YEAH.

YEAH.

I WANT TO ECHO RANDY AND JEREMIAH.

THIS IS THE PROJECT WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW AND OVER HERE IS NOT JUST PART OF THE MARKET.

IT IS NOT WEST MICHIGAN PROJECT.

THIS IS INTERNATIONAL PROJECT OVER HERE.

THIS IS THE TIME WHERE WE ARE TRYING TO BRING THE GRAND RAPIDS MEDICAL MILE AND THE WHOLE HEALTH CARE FACILITY TO THE WORLD STAGE AND NOW TRYING THE BIGGEST BUT BOOING THE BEST OF SOMETHING.

THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TAKING.

AND NOT ONLY WE ARE GOING TO BOOST THE BUSINESS AND HEALTH CARE PART TO TAKE CARE OF PATIENCE AROUND THE GLOBE, BUT ALSO, WE ARE GOING TO APPEAL TOLL THE FULL COMPREHENSIVE ECOSYSTEM TO ALLOW NEW COMPANY WORKING ON THIS NEW INDUSTRY AND FEEL COMFORTABLE TO GRAND RAPIDS.

COMBINED WITH THE HOSPITAL SYSTEM AND THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND CONTINUING TRENDING AND NEW SKILL SETTLE TO THE UNIVERSITIES OVER HERE BECAUSE OF THIS NEW SKILL SET AND IT IS UNIQUE SAN UNIVERSITIES ON EARTH HAS PROGRAMS TRENDING.

SONG THIS IS A VERY EXCITING TIME FOR US AND OAT GREAT GREAT COMMUNITY STEP.

>> PERFECT WAY TO END DR. AND NIN.

GREGORY McCORMICK.

RANDY AND JEREMIAH.

THANKS ALL SO MUCH.

WE'LL TALK AGAIN SOON.

>> THANKS.

APPRECIATE.

THANK THANK YOU.

A THANK YOU FOR JOINING.

ALE SEE YOU YOU AGAIN SOON, TOO.

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