"Method Home Products could have made Detroit -- or one of several other Michigan cities -- home for a large soap manufacturing plant.It could have built a 200,000-square-foot factory.
It could have invested $35 million.
It could have created 100 green-manufacturing jobs.
Instead, the spoils went to Chicago.
A year and a half ago, Detroit didn't step up to help the San Francisco-based company through the labyrinth of tax credits, abatements, zoning laws, real estate rules, legal wrangling and everything else it takes to turn an abandoned brownfield site into a successful business, said Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan, the Detroit-area natives who founded Method."
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