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Lake Superior Community Partnership Celebrates Distinguished Service Award Winners

Marquette, MI – On Wednesday, April 10, 2024, the Lake Superior Community Partnership (LSCP) held its highly anticipated Annual Dinner at the NMU Northern Center Ballrooms. The event brings together diverse community members, leaders, and businesses to celebrate economic development. The theme of this year’s Annual Dinner was ‘The Great…

LSCP and Marquette Sawyer Regional Airport Launch Air Service Survey

The Lake Superior Community Partnership and Marquette Sawyer Regional Airport are asking businesses to add their voice to support expanding air service in the region. A brief five-question survey will help quantify ‘latent demand’ – demand that is not otherwise captured in other data sets because businesses and…

Building a Foundation for the Next Twenty-Five Years

Last year, the LSCP celebrated a quarter century of serving Marquette County businesses and communities as the go-to resource for economic development information and services. Over those years, one of the defining features of the LSCP was its ability…

Unreliable Winter Weather Impacts Local Businesses

Winter is a time that we shine in the Upper Peninsula. From skiing, snowshoeing, and snowboarding to ice caves, sled dogs, and outhouse races, we embrace winter unlike anyone else. Our embrace of a season only tolerated by many others…

LSCP and GINCC Announce Shared Vision for Expanded West End Business Support Services

January 30, 2024 MARQUETTE COUNTY – The Lake Superior Community Partnership (LSCP) and the Greater Ishpeming Negaunee Chamber of Commerce (GINCC) have announced a shared vision for continuing and expanding direct, local access to business support services in western Marquette County. Ensuring the continuation of on-the-ground business support services –…

Working Together to Create More Housing Options in Marquette County

Ensuring a vibrant local and regional economy involves many moving pieces, from a clear flow of capital to ensuring sufficient housing and amenities to create a high quality of life that retains and attracts residents to the area. Housing is a…

LSCP’s 2024 Resolution: Committing To Our Guiding Principles

Welcome to the new year! I hope everyone had a safe and healthy holiday season. While it was a rare Christmas without snow here, traffic across the county in the days leading up to Christmas seemed to suggest that didn’t deter…

Celebrating a Productive, Impactful Year

It’s hard to believe that this will be the last LSCP Perspectives Column of 2023. Where did the year go? We’ll have the full results of 2023 to share when we issue our annual report, but I’d like to take some…

Marquette County is Open for Work

Marquette County – like nearly all other areas – has focused a majority of its economic development efforts on creating jobs, continually fighting the perception that employment opportunities were scarce or low paying. While it is true that we have…

Supporting Small Businesses with Big Investments 

As we head into the holiday shopping season, it’s always a great time to plan a strategy for how and where you’ll find the perfect gifts for those on your list. The National Retail Federation expects a 3-4%…
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