Detroit's First Private Community Benefits Agreement!

Sugar Law’s clients the West Grand Boulevard Collaborative (WGBC) negotiated and signed the first community benefits agreement in the City of Detroit reached between a private developer and a community group. Much congrats to all involved!

“WGBC also negotiated two Letters of Understanding with Henry Ford Health System around the new Brigitte Harris Cancer Pavilion and a separate warehouse. Thanks to those agreements, the hospital recently hosted a job fair in which 47 residents were hired, according to Jan Harrington-Davis, director of Employee/Labor Relations for HFHS” Full Story .

The Sugar Law Center is proud to work with WGBC, providing ongoing technical support and negotiations assistance to WGBC throughout the process of reaching this agreement and on their prior LOUs.