DETROIT-Nearly $22 million in tax credits encourage firms to build new facilities, buy new equipment and hire more workers in state. Nissan Technical Center North America Inc. gets $15.7 million, nearly half the cost of its Farmington Hills expansion project.

STANWOOD, MI-Ice Mountain Spring Water Co. rebuts residents' claims that it is stealing from the Great Lakes. It makes contributions to local community programs to quell most of the dissent.

DETROIT-The 840-acre project would uproot homes and businesses and be too close to existing neighborhoods, planning commission members say. It also would generate meager tax revenues, they believe.

DETROIT-The plan commission agrees to a proposal involving the sale of city-owned land for $663,000 to developer Joseph Palazzalo of JCT LLC. It also enacts some conditions on the planned-unit development.

ROCHESTER, MI-The three-year, $86-million plan will enhance and expand Crittenton Hospital Medical Center programs and services. Included are a 10,000-sf expansion of the emergency department and 25,000-sf south addition.

TROY, MI-Two firms offer up the assets of the automotive service shops. A national chain could pick up multiple centers, says Bill Firestone, president of Enfield, CT-based Capital Recovery.

PONTIAC, MI-The mixed-use residential and industrial project is the largest in this struggling city. Being built on a former mental health center site, it will return 213 acres to the tax rolls after 100 years.

DETROIT-Current lease income for five 29-year-old office/industrial buildings in the Fairlane Commerce Park North is $1.8 million per year. The new owner must assume a $12.8-million mortgage with Deutsche Banc Mortgage Capital.