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"Insight/Innovation" DPTV
Recommended by the Detroit
Public Television (DPTV) Business Advisory Committee. They came to their
attention when Arnold, George and their people donated $150K to Detroit Science
Center.
George: "I am not an artist or a musician, but
creating wealth in the community – not wealth for Arnold and I, but wealth
in the community – and creating jobs is something we are capable of doing.
We are able to sell ideas to people that say, "OK, we can give you business,"
and out of that comes a lot of jobs. And there is even more to come.
 So, I think that if
you are in a position to build something, and if you enjoy that, the money will
come. It is not about the dollars, it is really about the building process and
the achievement process."
Arnold: Though you still have to be a
businessman "... it doesn't dismiss the fact that you can have moral values,
you can have ethics and you can have the desire to renovate and to be an
uplifting spirit within an area. What we have done on a consistent basis is to
take over, literally, abandoned properties and bring them back to life."
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