Turkey awada mullin biography of michael w

Read More. Policy in Favor of Palestine? View Results. Pinnacle Aeropark was the 1,acre economic development project brainchild of former Wayne County Executive Edward McNamara in , but the land near Detroit Metro Airport sat empty for year after year after year. Cobo Center expansion was another project with powerful supporters. But repeated failure to do a Cobo deal became a sorry symbol of a politically dysfunctional Detroit region.

Pinnacle and Cobo appeared to be cursed projects destined to be forever frustrated by one obstacle or another. Fortunately, no one told Turkia Awada Mullin. Mullin, 40, a Lebanese immigrant as a toddler, a Free Press newspaper carrier as a youngster, a U. Army recruit, a graduate of Wayne State and Detroit Mercy universities and then a real estate lawyer, played a key role as assistant Wayne County executive in recent deals to open the Pinnacle Race Course and to advance a plan for the first expansion of Cobo since the s.

Turkia is a leader in business

Tenacity is rewarded. She replaced Mulugetta Birru, who resigned the post in December but still is consulting on relationships he helped establish for Wayne County in China. Most everyone in the automotive industry, for example, assumed that Michigan had little if any chance of landing a new assembly plant for Volkswagen AG, which last year chose a 1,acre site in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Eager to learn. Mullin now has Wayne County pulling sites together to be certified as development-ready. I believe in survival of the fittest.