DETROIT-Six new businesses and four multi-million dollar business expansions were assisted the Detroit Regional Economic Partnership in the quarter ending Tuesday. They include sales and leases of industrial, office and retail properties.

DETROIT-Projects such as the $500-million Ford Field, home of the Detroit Lions, benefit from state help in land reclamation. Easy access to existing infrastructure is an advantage.

ALLEN PARK, MI-The carmaker wants its property back for office and retail use. Ford would use a large brownfield development grant from the state to clean up land and adjacent dump areas.

DEARBORN, MI-The automaker is installing wetlands and other environmentally sound features around and on top of the 1.1-million-sf Ford Rouge Center truck assembly plant. The work is expected to save the company $35 million a year.

DETROIT-Comerica Bank of Detroit senior vice president and chief economist David Littmann says the regional economy will slow at first, but has confidence the growth patterns will gain strength in the second half of 2003.

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI-Grand Sakwa has acquired half of 80-acre site at Northwestern Highway and Orchard Lake Road for big box projects, and will continue with planned development, says the city planning director.

JAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP, MI-The mold manufacturer is going to spend more than $35 million on equipment and new facilities by 2007 thanks to a Single Business Tax credit that kept the company here rather than moving to Tennessee.

ROYAL OAK, MI-Four developers have offered to build multi-story residential buildings over parking garages on an empty Downtown site. The Downtown Development Authority begins considering proposals next month.