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Clayton & McKervey Expands Office and Introduces State-Of-The Art Lifesize Technology

Clayton & McKervey Expands Office and Introduces State-Of-The Art Lifesize Technology southfieldcc_3ik8d2

clayton_mckerveyClayton & McKervey, an international accounting and business advisory firm servicing growth-driven middle market companies, has recently expanded its offices to accommodate the firm’s steady growth.  The firm also significantly enhanced its technology through the installation of LifeSize, a state-of-the-art communication tool.

The renovation was completed in April 2016 in the firm’s Southfield, Mich. offices, located in the 2000 tower of the Town Center.  It features enhanced meeting room and collaboration space.  Clayton & McKervey moved into its current location in 2007 after outgrowing its former suite, also located in Southfield.  The firm currently employs 65 global tax and accounting professionals.

“Our employees are already benefitting from the larger collaboration space, including a multi-purpose area which accommodates firm meetings and trainings,” said Trudy Thornsberry, vice president of operations for Clayton & McKervey.

During construction, the firm took the opportunity to equip a dozen offices and conference rooms with LifeSize technology to expand opportunities for face-to-face communication across town, or across the globe.  Featuring wall-mounted monitors and encrypted messaging, LifeSize will serve as a daily tool to augment the firm’s international travel and client meetings.

Clayton & McKervey is a metro Detroit-based accounting and business advisory firm helping growth-driven entrepreneurial companies compete in the global marketplace. The firm was established in 1953 and is headquartered in metro Detroit and services clients throughout Europe, China, North America and South America.  To learn more, visit claytonmckervey.com.

National Walking Day 2016

National Walking Day 2016 southfieldcc_3ik8d2

laceupAmericans are spending more time at work and sitting in front of a screen than ever before. We’re becoming less active, which can increase our risk of heart disease, stroke and other diseases.

Being physically active is important to prevent heart disease and stroke, which are responsible for more deaths in the U.S. than all forms of cancer combined. Heart disease is the leading cause of death and stroke is the leading preventable cause of disability.

Research has shown that every hour of regular exercise can add about two hours to life expectancy, even if you don’t start until midlife. Plus, physical activity can relieve depression, improve your memory, lower your blood pressure and help prevent obesity.

April 6 is the American Heart Association’s National Walking Day, and we want people to lace up for their heart and get moving. Whether it’s walking, running, biking, playing sports or taking a yoga class, the goal is for adults to get at least 150 minutes per week of moderate exercise or 75 minutes per week of vigorous exercise (or a combination of both), while kids should get at least 60 minutes of physical activity per day.

Thirty minutes a day, five times a week, is an easy goal to remember. You’ll experience benefits even if you divide your time into two or three segments of 10 to 15 minutes per day.

So, grab your sneakers, lace up and get moving toward a healthier heart!

Calls to Action:

  • Sign up to participate in National Walking Day (as an individual, school or company), and take 30 minutes on April 6 to get up and walk. (www.heart.org/nationalwalkingday)
  • Join the national celebration on social media using #AHALaceUp.
  • Use National Walking Day to kick off a month-long focus on being more active and creating healthy habits and engaging your colleagues, friends and family members in the Saturday, May 14thMetro Detroit Heart Walk!

Physical Activity Facts:

  • Sedentary jobs have increased 83% since 1950, and physically active jobs now make up less than 20% of our workforce, down from 50% in 1960.
  • Our average workweek is longer. Full-time workers in the US work about 47 hours each week – that’s more than 350 extra hours worked each year.
  • Adult (and childhood) obesity/overweight level continues to increase: 69% of all adults are obese or overweight.
  • One in three American kids and teens is overweight or obese, nearly triple the rate in 1963, and childhood obesity is now the top health concern among parents in the United States.
  • Half of all adults and more than 60% of children do not get daily vigorous physical activity.
  • About one in three adults report participating in no leisure time physical activity.

City of Southfield Presents Leap Year Winter Fest FeaturingFireworks Finale February 28

City of Southfield Presents Leap Year Winter Fest FeaturingFireworks Finale February 28 southfieldcc_3ik8d2

LeapYearWinterFestimg2016(SOUTHFIELD, Mich.) – The city of Southfield will host the Leap Year Winter Fest featuring a spectacular fireworks finale on Sunday, February 28 from 2-6 p.m. in the Southfield Pavilion located in the Municipal Complex at 26000 Evergreen Road.

This free community event will feature an afternoon of food, fun and fireworks for the whole family, including: children’s games and crafts, inflatable obstacle course and moonwalk, Rosco the Clown, the Southfield Fire Department’s Fire Safety House as well as ice and wood carving demonstrations. The afternoon will top off with a special winter fireworks finale at 6:30 p.m. The event will also feature food available for purchase as well as free admission and parking.

For more information, contact Southfield Parks & Recreation at (248) 796-4620 or visit www.cityofsouthfield.com.

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City of Southfield Presents Leap Year Winter Fest Featuring Fireworks Finale February 28

City of Southfield Presents Leap Year Winter Fest Featuring Fireworks Finale February 28 southfieldcc_3ik8d2

leapyearwinterfestimg2016(SOUTHFIELD, Mich.) – The city of Southfield will host the Leap Year Winter Fest featuring a spectacular fireworks finale on Sunday, February 28 from 2-6 p.m. in the Southfield Pavilion located in the Municipal Complex at 26000 Evergreen Road.

This free community event will feature an afternoon of food, fun and fireworks for the whole family, including: children’s games and crafts, inflatable obstacle course and moonwalk, Rosco the Clown, the Southfield Fire Department’s Fire Safety House as well as ice and wood carving demonstrations. The afternoon will top off with a special winter fireworks finale at 6:30 p.m. The event will also feature food available for purchase as well as free admission and parking.

For more information, contact Southfield Parks & Recreation at (248) 796-4620 or visit www.cityofsouthfield.com.

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LTU Students Create 3D Light Sculpture

LTU Students Create 3D Light Sculpture southfieldcc_3ik8d2

3DLightSculpture_smStudents from Lawrence Technological University undergraduate sculpture class designed and built a 3-D light sculpture at the Southfield Town Center. The objective was to create an art installation that was interactive, enhanced the surroundings, and impacted visitors to think about how art impacts our world. Financial support from the project was provided by the Southfield City Centre as part of their efforts to create a vibrant mixed-use environment in the city centre district. The Southfield Public Arts Commission also assisted in implementation and will ensure proper future maintenance of the piece occurs.

LTU Collaboratory Sets Two Information Sessions for Customer to Cash Program

LTU Collaboratory Sets Two Information Sessions for Customer to Cash Program southfieldcc_3ik8d2

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – The LTU Collaboratory will hold two information sessions for the nine-week Customer to Cash program that starts in February 2016. Start-up and second-stage entrepreneurs, innovators and business owners are encouraged to attend.

The information sessions will be held on Monday, Dec. 14, and Wednesday, Dec. 16, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center on the fourth floor of the Taubman Student Services Center, 21000 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield.

The Customers to Cash program is designed to serve established companies with new products to launch in new or existing markets; innovators with new technologies to sell; entrepreneurs with fresh business ideas to start up and grow; tinkerers with product ideas and prototypes to test with real customers; and college students with new product ideas to validate with customers.

Every team in the program can receive a prototyping stipend and can qualify for additional seed funding. Prizes totaling $10,000 will be awarded to the top teams.

Each team is matched with an industry mentor for individual assistance and can qualify for a year of additional professional mentoring.

RSVP for the information sessions at C2C@ltu.edu.

Go to www.ltu.edu/C2C to apply by the Feb. 1 deadline. There is no charge to participate in this program, which is offered by the LTU Collaboratory.

“If you’re ready to really advance your innovation, to truly understand who will buy your product and what kind of business you can build, then this is the program for you,” said Tex Criqui, Director, LTU Collaboratory and team leader of the C2C program. “We are offering this nine-week program on Saturdays so that busy working professionals, faculty and students can advance their ideas and innovations.”

Lawrence Technological University, www.ltu.edu, is a private university founded in 1932 that offers more than 100 programs through the doctoral level in Colleges of Architecture and Design, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Management. The Brookings Institution ranks Lawrence Tech fifth nationwide for boosting graduates’ earning power, PayScale lists it in the nation’s top 10 percent of universities for graduates’ salaries, and U.S. News and World Report places it in the top tier of best Midwestern universities. Students benefit from small class sizes and a real-world, hands-on, “theory and practice” education with an emphasis on leadership. Activities on Lawrence Tech’s 107-acre campus in Southfield, Michigan, include over 60 student organizations and NAIA varsity sports.

Eric Pope
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Lawrence Technological University
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Lawrence Tech Eyes Future Growth With Purchase of Southfield Office Complex

Lawrence Tech Eyes Future Growth With Purchase of Southfield Office Complex southfieldcc_3ik8d2

mark_plaza_LTUSOUTHFIELD, Mich. – Lawrence Technological University has purchased the Mark Plaza building and its nearly five-acre site at 21411-21415 Civic Center Drive in Southfield from KLM Ventures LLC. Portions of the building will continue to be leased to outside tenants and will also become home to the Southfield SmartZone and Southfield Michigan Works! offices.

The purchase price of the property was $3,650,000. Ultimately, portions of the 92,000-square-foot, three-story building may be used for academic programs and business accelerator space at the 4,500-student private university.

Mark Plaza was built in two phases in 1969 and 1970. The building was upgraded in 2001.

“Purchasing this building provides important expansion opportunities for LTU,” said Lawrence Tech President Virinder Moudgil. “The building and its acreage are immediately adjacent to our campus, which now totals 107 acres. The University is somewhat landlocked, and it would have been difficult to grow without acquiring the Mark Plaza property.”

In September, LTU dedicated a new $11 million, 150-student campus residence hall named for longtime trustee chairman and former GM president, Lloyd E. Reuss. In late summer 2016, the University will open its $55 million Taubman Complex housing architecture, engineering, biomedical, and STEM programs. Lawrence Tech’s new Detroit Center for Design + Technology on Woodward Avenue in Detroit’s Midtown opened Oct. 30.

Lawrence Technological University, www.ltu.edu, is a private university founded in 1932 that offers more than 100 programs through the doctoral level in Colleges of Architecture and Design, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Management. The Brookings Institution ranks Lawrence Tech fifth nationwide for boosting graduates’ earning power, PayScale lists it in the nation’s top 10 percent of universities for graduates’ salaries, and U.S. News and World Report places it in the top tier of best Midwestern universities. Students benefit from small class sizes and a real-world, hands-on, “theory and practice” education with an emphasis on leadership. Activities on Lawrence Tech’s 107-acre campus in Southfield, Michigan, include over 60 student organizations and NAIA varsity sports.

 

Eric Pope
Managing Editor, University News Bureau
Lawrence Technological University
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(313) 505-6508 (cell)

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Register Now for Lawrence Tech’s Spring Semester

Register Now for Lawrence Tech’s Spring Semester southfieldcc_3ik8d2

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – Students can register now for spring semester classes that begin Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, at Lawrence Technological University (LTU). Day, evening, weekend and online options are available, including many fast-track certificate programs in growing career fields.

LTU has associate, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs that can lead to careers in areas such as robotics engineering, biomedical engineering and computer science.

Call 1-800-CALL-LTU, ext. 1, or visit www.ltu.edu/futurestudents to find out about registration.

For additional information, contact admissions@ltu.edu or (248) 204-3160.

Lawrence Technological University, www.ltu.edu, is a private university founded in 1932 that offers more than 100 programs through the doctoral level in Colleges of Architecture and Design, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Management. The Brookings Institution ranks Lawrence Tech fifth nationwide for boosting graduates’ earning power, PayScale lists it in the nation’s top 10 percent of universities for graduates’ salaries, and U.S. News and World Report places it in the top tier of best Midwestern universities. Students benefit from small class sizes and a real-world, hands-on, “theory and practice” education with an emphasis on leadership. Activities on Lawrence Tech’s 107-acre campus in Southfield, Michigan, include over 60 student organizations and NAIA varsity sports.

Eric Pope

Managing Editor, University News Bureau
Lawrence Technological University
(248) 204-2210
(313) 505-6508 (cell)

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Maccabees Center Receives The Outstanding Building of the Year Award (TOBY)

Maccabees Center Receives The Outstanding Building of the Year Award (TOBY) southfieldcc_3ik8d2

Maccabees-Center-13The Maccabees Center has received The Outstanding Building of the Year Award (TOBY) ) in its local 250,000 – 499,999 square foot office building category.  Presented by the Building Owners and Managers Association of Metropolitan Detroit (BOMA), this is the most prestigious and comprehensive program of its kind in the commercial real estate industry, recognizing quality and awarding excellence in property management.   All facets of a property’s operations are thoroughly evaluated during the judging process, including image, amenities, tenant relations programs, community involvement, emergency preparedness, security standards and continuing education for management personnel.

Achieving the TOBY designation was a team effort by the Maccabees Center staff and committed building service vendors led by Art Fields, Director of Operations, and includes Judy Tovio-Manning, Brad Peterson, Michael Jones, Cedric Powel, Ron Oblinger and Rey Jackson as well as our evening teams led by Ken Henderson, Sequoia England and Carolyn Taylor-Glover.

“We are very proud and honored to receive this award, the third in recent years for our Office Division portfolio,” said Paula Goldman-Spinner, Vice-President & Director of  Commercial Properties at Schostak Brothers & Company, Inc.  “We believe this collective effort by our team demonstrates Schostak’s core purpose ‘To be an exceptional real estate company, building success for our partners and associates.’  We hope you’ll agree with BOMA and its standards confirming our commitment to provide our customers with ‘best in class’ services and we thank you for your continued trust in us.”

Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship – ACE ’16

Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship – ACE ’16 southfieldcc_3ik8d2

Save The Date!

ACE’16 is being held on
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Southfield Westin Hotel
12:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Featuring:
Keynote Addresses from:

  • Ted Serbinski, Managing Director, Techstars Mobility
  • Hajj Flemings, Founder, Brand Camp University
  • Consultant’s Corner, Six Breakout Sessions
  • Plus – A special Innovative Design and  Maufacturability Workshop

Mark your calendars and look for more information coming soon!