Nope, nothing in the area and I live here and do a fair amount of work within the mill (my own company).
However you are right, that mill goes down and Escanaba blows away into the wind. EMP isn’t enough to save the area and the casino? well lets just say I have WAY to much knowledge of the inner workings of that tribe to believe the second golf course will provide a damn thing to the area.
I am from there and know a lot of the loggers. I used to log up there and sold to these mills.
One logger from Gladstone-i wont give you his name, says that the Escanaba mill owes him around 80 grand. One from Ishpeming is owed a HUGE sum.
Here is the problem. I had a cousin who ran two small specialty mills out east. He said that the new younger generation of managers couldnt manage a can of pickup stix.
And Len was right. They are only there to skim money off the place and run it into the ground. No business mind at all.
The mill at Quinessec had virtually no paper orders at Christmas time-BAD!
Ask the nest trucker you see how much hardwood they have in the yards in those mills. They might be down now a little, but I havent seen that much wood in those yards EVER.
Feel sorry for you if you are dealing with those people at Hannahville?