A push to develop a $2.5 million incubator for industrial startups in Muskegon Heights will receive special consideration by the feds because the city is a City of Promise. The city has also submitted requests for $11.5 million to fund other economic development projects.
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An alternative energy-operated business "incubator" site is one of several ambitious projects Muskegon Heights city officials are seeking to fund with federal money. City officials recently submitted a proposed project "wish list" to the West Michigan Shoreline Regional Development Commission, which will review and then forward the request to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration. Topping the city's list is a proposal to establish an incubator program to help small industrial businesses develop, said Muskegon Heights City Manager Natasha Henderson.
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