it is not so much a a gift from my wife and myself, it is a gift from a little child. see to it that the park is the children s. and for nearly 100 years after that jean klock park remains a place people went for baptisms and picnics to pass a summer s night, teach their kids to swim, fish, build sand castles on the lake michigan shore. this beautiful park was their place. benton harbor used to have one other big important asset jobs. jobs making whirl pool appliances. this is a company town for whirl pool. they closed the last manufacturing plant in march. now it s mostly just a call center there but also the corporate offices for whirl pool where benton harbor people say they hold few of those corporate office jobs. as far back as the 1980s whirl pool was looking for a way to get some use out of old industrial land. one of the ideas was a public/private redevelopment concept. the idea was to build a $500 million, 530-acre jack nicklaus
and picnics to pass a summer s night, teach their kids to swim, fish, build sand castles on the lake michigan shore. this beautiful park was their place. benton harbor used to have one other big important asset jobs. jobs making whirl pool appliances. this is a company town for whirl pool. they closed the last manufacturing plant in march. now it s mostly just a call center there but also the corporate offices for whirl pool where benton harbor people say they hold few of those corporate office jobs. as far back as the 1980s whirl pool was looking for a way to get some use out of old industrial land. one of the ideas was a public/private redevelopment concept. the idea was to build a $500 million, 530-acre jack nicklaus designed golf and residential development. some of the housing would be affordable as they say in public/private redevelopmentese and some would be signature homes and beach style cottages and luxury condominiums. this new xanadu would start in st. joseph and reach ov
workplace boosted business at peppercom by winning them their best client to date, whirlpool. peppercom stood out for a number of reasons. primarily, they had a lot of fun repertoire and some things they were doing online. and they also at the same time would interspers professional high level counseling in the midst of all of the fun. so it made them something special. it s because of comedy. audrey actually searched out firms and found us on the web and knew about us a little bit but saw the comedy workshops we do. she got really excited about that. comedy has given peppercom a distinct competitive advantage by improving employee morale, tickling their funny bones and also helping the company s bottom line. winning the whirl pool business was colossal. since we got our foot in the door, we represent whirl pool, maytag, amana corporate and global. you could say i don t want to