America’s best megasite’ halted after state agency spends nearly $6 million in taxpayer funds Local opposition stymied project

After spending $6 million of taxpayer money to prepare a site for an industrial development in Eagle Township, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced in November that it will end the project. - Jamie A. Hope 

• LEAP boasted the project would be “America’s best megasite,” according to Bridge Michigan. Michigan’s chief agency for distributing taxpayer subsidies initially backed the plan for the land in Clinton County. 
• The MEDC disbursed $5.95 million to the Lansing economic development organization for site preparation, Otie McKinley, communications manager for the MEDC, told Michigan Capitol Confidential in an email.
• “MEDC’s overarching goal is to create good-paying jobs and opportunities throughout Michigan,” McKinley added...