Snyder signs bills to ease shift to 5G wireless technology
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder has signed legislation to ease the wireless industry’s shift to next-generation technology in Michigan.
The laws enacted Wednesday establish statewide regulations and fee limits for the installation of a dense network of “small cells” on telephone poles, traffic signals and other infrastructure.
The measures are backed by carriers such as Verizon and AT&T that want faster internet speeds and more network capacity, but opposed by local governments as an infringement on their ability to recover costs for the use of public rights of way.
Michigan is the 21st state to enact laws that streamline regulations to facilitate the deployment of fifth-generation, or 5G , small cells, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Monroe Blocks project breaks ground in downtown Detroit
DETROIT (AP) — Ground has broken on a mixed-use building project on a mainly vacant, high-profile piece of downtown Detroit.
Officials attended the event Thursday for the development dubbed Monroe Blocks. The project encompassing two city blocks facing Campus Martius Park is owned by Bedrock, whose chairman is businessman Dan Gilbert.
The project will be anchored by a 35-story office tower and includes a 17-story residential building. Plans also call for retail areas and roughly an acre of open space.
The work is scheduled to be finished in 2022.
Michigan’s economic development board this year awarded $618 million in tax incentives to Bedrock for $2.1 billion in Detroit developments that include Monroe Blocks. Another project is what’s expected to be Michigan’s tallest building on the site of the former J.L. Hudson department store.
Wayne Law presents Professor Harold Koh: Trump Administration and International Law
Wayne Law will host Professor Harold Hongju Koh to discuss his book, The Trump Administration and International Law, from 12:15-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 29. The lecture will be held in Lecture Hall 2242 of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne Law, 471 W. Palmer in Detroit. Koh is the Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and its former dean. He served as legal advisor to the State Department from 2009-13 and is and one of the country’s leading experts in public and private international law, national security law and human rights. Koh’s book discusses why Trump, in his first two years, is not “winning” in his effort to resign the U.S. from global leadership, and how the resistance is blunting his initiatives. This event is free and lunch will be provided. The RSVP will be available on January 1. For more information contact Gregory Fox at (313) 577-0110 or gfox@ wayne.edu.
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