An iconic Flint business will celebrate a century of serving Flint & Genesee at this year's Hot Dogs & Hot Rods event during the Back to the Bricks cruise. Koegel Meats is 100 years old this year and is among several sponsors of the Flint & Genesee Chamber of Commerce annual member appreciation cookout, which will be held Aug. 18.
Through hard work, dogged determination and, yes, some good luck, Flint and Genesee County are making important strides forward. And it's showing up in several ways.
Let's start with wage growth. In a recent analysis done by the University of Michigan,
wage growth in Flint was the seventh highest nationally in 2015, outpacing growth in Michigan and in major cities around the country. According to Donald Grimes, a U-M economist, who conducted the analysis, real wages in Flint's construction industry increased by 5.8 percent and in manufacturing the by 7.4 percent. Grimes notes that in addition, there's almost a 1,000-job-gain in the highly paid professional services and corporate headquarters industries. Adding these jobs in accounted for about one-third of the growth in Flint.
