LAKE SUPERIOR COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP

The Partnership is built on the belief that efforts to improve our quality of life should be:

1) Truly regional in nature; recognizing that we can accomplish far more together and that our competition is truly global.

2) Built around true private-public partnership; recognizing that too often in the past we have not shared responsibility for the progress of our community.

3) Focused on community development; recognizing that enduring economic benefit can spring only from a well of true community development and improvement.

Using these as building blocks, the Partnership envisions a growing, diversified and sustainable regional economy. This economic health will stem from the investment we make in our children and youth and the growing economic opportunity that we provide for our businesses and citizens. Marquette County and the region will be a rewarding place to work, raise a family and enjoy the unique environment and beauty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Funding for the Partnership comes from both the private and public sector with the non-profit organization being run similarly to a private business rather than a municipality. The ongoing partnership between the LSCP and Marquette County EDC is critical to development efforts and the 1999 merger with the Ishpeming-Negaunee and Marquette Area Chamber of Commerce boosted membership to just under 1,000 members.

Our Board of Directors

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