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VOL. 138, NO. 13 75¢ THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2011

DDA selects Weave the Web:

Make sure to click on
www.heritage.com around
the clock for the most

new president
By Sean Dalton
Heritage Media
Now that attorney Peter
Flintoft has settled into his new person has a building that’s
role as Downtown Development retail and wants it to convert
Authority president, he’s
talking about the body’s new
direction in spurring growth
and development of Chelsea’s
downtown.
Flintoft was named DDA
president during the March 17
regular meeting. He replaces
Vogel’s and Foster’s owner Mike Bookstores are going to decline
Jackson, who served for two
years.
Jackson resigned last month
citing personal reasons related
to his work and family as the
reason for stepping down.
Flintoft, who has been a
member of the DDA for six
years now, says that he will
unveil some new ideas at the
next regular meeting – specifi-
cally a plan to assist downtown agreement with the municipal
business owners who wish to
in-depth coverage of
Washtenaw County. Our
“Most Viewed” story this
week is “Movie Review: ‘Paul’
charming but misses potential.”
uses in Chelsea are for dry
goods, office space or other low
intensity uses.
“My concept would be if a
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to restaurant, because that
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appears what the future devel-
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we should help them,” Flintoft
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said.
save film incentive program
Projections show retail
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space shrinking on a national
basis, according to Flintoft.
to 10 percent of what they were
in terms of square footage, he
added. Connect with
“Retail is going to be tougher
and tougher and tougher.” HotJobs by Monster:
Flintoft’s plan is not unlike Click on the “jobs” tab
Industrial Tax Certificates, on the home page of our
which have been popular for the website or go directly to
Photo by Sean Dalton http://jobs.heritage.com.
past decade. In ITC’s industrial
taxpayers make investments Chelsea School District Superintendent Dave Killips, Mayor Jason Lindauer, CCH President and
in real property based on an CEO Kathleen Griffiths, Medical Chief of Staff Dr. Eric Skye, and Gary Faja, president and CEO of
Trinity Health “break ground” at the hospital March 22.
entity that collects their taxes

Breaking ground
increase the intensity of their in which tax credits are given.
property use, by offsetting costs Flintoft says that as demand
to water and sewer costs. for restaurants, medical
“In terms of sewer and water, facilities and apartments Join us on Twitter:
if you have an existing building grows, which he posits will hap- Become a Chelsea
that is a lighter use like retail pen, towns that accommodate Standard follower. Click on
and want to bring in a restau- growth in those areas will con- the Twitter tab on the home
rant, we want to help,” Flintoft tinue to thrive as Chelsea has. Faja also praised CCH for their page of our website or go
said. Since Chelsea owns its utili- Community hospital starts first survey scores in the categories directly to http://twitter.com/
ChelseaDexter.
Where a dry goods store may ties, Flintoft says it’s simply a
use .1 Residential Equivalent matter of paying utility costs to phase of $60 million expansion of quality, patient safety, patient
satisfaction, employee engage-
Units per square foot (REU is the city for such improvement ment and physician satisfaction,
the measure of water usage costs. By Sean Dalton emergency room, X-ray and calling one of the “best places
per square foot compared to In exchange a Special Heritage Media imaging areas, outpatient reha- to work” within the family of 46
the water used in a residential Assessment District would be bilitation and therapy space and facilities in the health care sys-
property), a restaurant typically established on the business Ground was broken Tuesday, a new front entrance and lobby tem that are in his purview.
uses 4 REU’s per square foot, property based on what the March 22 on the first phase area. “What I wanted to make very
Flintoft explained. DDA paid to the city for costs, of expansion at Chelsea “As our work proceeded on this clear to all of you, and this was Join us on Facebook:
He says that he sees higher and the payable SAD term Community Hospital. project our administrative team, clear from the beginning of We already have 298 fans
REU rated uses being dominant would be 12 years with the final Construction of the two-story directors and their staff first and our discussion for the merger on Facebook. Click on the
in the future of Chelsea’s down- year’s costs forgiven for the 100,000 square-foot addition foremost spent time ensuring – that we wanted to provide the Facebook tab on the home
town district, but currently property owner for staying in marks the beginning of the larg- that these new facilities would strength of a large organiza- page of our website or
many of the existing building est construction projects in the meet the needs of our patients tion such as St. Joseph Mercy search for us on Facebook.
PLEASE SEE DDA/3-A history of the city of Chelsea, and their families,” Griffiths Health System with our six
which is themed “Growing for said. “In the very early stages hospitals and six ambulatory
You,” in an effort to promote and of this project we developed a sites throughout Michigan and
protect the rural aesthetic that series of guiding principals, and Trinity Health,” Faja said. “We
so many residents consider an we believe that these principals wanted to bring the strength of
integral part of their experience would preserve and enhance that organization to this hospital
at CCH. all that is special about Chelsea and to this community. The Marketplace:
Chelsea Community Hospital hospital and important to our “What we did not want to do Local ads are just a hop
President and CEO Kathleen patients, visitors, staff and physi- is disrupt the wonderful culture away at the MIcentral.com
Griffiths led off the 1 p.m. cer- cians. that has been developed here marketplace. While you are
emony at the construction site “I feel that as we’ve moved over the years. Our goal, from the there, you can check out
by thanking Albert Kahn archi- forward with the project we have beginning, was to deal with the all the special supplements
tects and the construction team remained true to those prin- of Journal Register Co.
strength of the system, but pre- newspapers in Michigan.
responsible for building the addi- ciples.” serve the culture that you have
tion and executing parking and This May is the two-year Click on “marketplace”
developed here over the years. on the home page of our
driveway improvements around anniversary of CCH’s merger I think we’ve struck a good bal- website or go directly to www.
the hospital’s lot come this July. with Trinity Health and the St. ance on that.” marketplace.micentral.com/
“From the very beginning, I Joseph Mercy Health System. It CCH Board Chairman David ROP/Categories.aspx.
believe both firms brought an was these new relationships that Killips thanked previous chair-
Photos courtesy of Mark Stebelton understanding and an apprecia- Griffiths credited for realizing a persons Judy Knoll, Pat Conlin
tion for the unique character of project that has been a “dream” and James Woods for their work
Sophomore Jordan Battaglia, junior Lauren Lyons, freshman
Madisen Powell and senior Brooke Gier led the our campus and our hospital,” of many at CCH. bringing the merger and the INDEX
EXTRAVAGANZA team. Griffiths said, touching on a Gary Faja, president and CEO expansion project to fruition dur-
major theme of comments of Trinity Health, talked about Editorial Page 6-A
ing their tenures on the board.
made by many of the presenters Project Genesis, which will see “They, along with other board

Students raise – reverence for the feel and level

of quality that Chelsea area resi-
dents have come to expect from
CCH.
computer systems installed at
critical points throughout CCH
and other facilities in the health
system in surgery and emer-
of trustees, donated endless
hours to see the alliance of
Trinity Health, St. Joe’s and CCH
Calendar
Deaths
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$3K for nonprofit Griffiths also pointed to the

Students at Chelsea
High School took part in
EXTRAVAGANZA’s Glow
Bash, Friday, March 18, to
raise money and awareness for and collected $3,000 for the non-
To Write Love on Her Arm, a
nonprofit dedicated to finding
help for people struggling with
depression and addiction.
The Glow Bash was a black
light event, and the first ever
of its kind at the high school.
Students wore neon socks,
beauty of the CCH campus, the
preservations of which was a
high priority:
shorts and glasses and used spe-
“Preserving the beauty of our
cial black light paint on their
campus, as many of you know
faces and clothes. The students
is not without its challenges ...
achieved their fundraising goal
but they have not been daunted
by these challenges. Rather they
profit.
have embraced the setting and
“We have really great stu-
designed a building that respects
dents here at CHS,” stated Julie
and enhances what we already
Deppner, the high school’s
have here.”
principal. “I was on a visit to
The new building will include
another local school, and they
a 54-bed addition that will make
were excited about raising $800
all of the hospital’s rooms pri-
PLEASE SEE LOVE/3-A vate. It will also include a new
gency rooms.
“It’s quite an undertaking,”
Faja said.
come to fruition,” Killips said.
“Not only is Chelsea Community
Hospital provided with medi-
cal facilities, the communities
Sports
Community
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The system will allow doctors of Chelsea, Dexter, Grass Lake,
Printed
to access the most up-to-date Manchester and Stockbridge will NEWS TIP
medical records with previously have long lasting benefits. on HOTLINE:
impossible alacrity at critical “We will also see the newly- recycled
475-1371
stages of patient care. The sys- created Chelsea Area Wellness
paper
tem will come to CCH this July. Foundation provide new endeav-
“We like to think that we bring ors for us as well.”
the opportunity to provide new Killips highlighted the eco-
services here to Chelsea, such as nomic benefits of the expansion,
oncology services,” Faja added. which will bring temporary
“That is something at the top construction workers and trades-
of our list to provide for this men to Chelsea in the short term
community for convenience and
excellence.” PLEASE SEE CCH/3-A

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