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Economic Development

Take your business to new heights!


With thousands of available sites across the globe in which to base your company why choose Sterling Heights, Michigan?

Our community provides the perfect setting for a successful business venture —    one that will make your profits soar and take your company to new heights! 
Sterling Heights is a strong community with business friendly strategies.

Sterling Heights stands out in a global community because…
  • Companies that have a presence in the Sterling Heights business community include DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Dynamics, and Key Safety Systems. Businesses in Sterling Heights enjoy access to generous tax incentives, 
  • Sterling Heights provides a central location to suppliers and customers in Southeastern Michigan.
  • One of the finest culturally diverse, educated and skilled workforces in the world lives in a wide variety of housing options in and surrounding Sterling Heights.
  • A full-service, award-winning municipal government offers the finest in development assistance, public works and emergency services.  Furthermore, we offer a sound, fiscally responsible government with one of the lowest tax and water and sewer rates in the state.
  • Sterling Heights is recognized as one of the best places to raise a family, one of the safest cities in the United States, and one of the most economically stress-free cities in America.
To view our Sterling Heights Facts Sheet, click here.


For more information about locating in our city, contact:

Luke Bonner
Sterling Heights Economic Development Manager
40555 Utica Road
PO Box 8009
Sterling Heights, MI 48311-8009
(586) 446-2386
(586) 276-4065 (fax)
(810) 499-5601 (cell)
lbonner@sterling-heights.net

Luke Bonner joined the city of Sterling Heights in January 2006 as the Economic Development Manager to advance the city’s renewed efforts toward business retention, recruitment and revitalization.  He has nearly six years of economic development experience with the City of Taylor, Michigan that includes, in part, the management of several projects for the Tax Increment Finance Authority, the Downtown Development Authority, and in Brownfield redevelopment.

Luke holds a master’s degree in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Public Administration from Eastern Michigan University and a B.A. from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.  He is a Certified Economic Developer through the Michigan Economic Developments Association, a Certified Economic Development Finance Professional through the National Development Council and a licensed real estate agent through Colliers International.  Bonner is currently pursuing economic development certification from the International Development Council.





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