George W. Jackson, Jr. has led a distinguished
career in both the private and public sectors.
During a 27-year career at DTE Energy,
Jackson rose to the position of director of
customer marketing. Areas reporting to him
included Economic Development, Strategic
Marketing Processes, Product Development,
Program Management, Customer Research
and Information and Ethnic Marketing.
During his tenure, DTE’s economic
development department was one of the
largest private sector groups of its kind in the
country, and it won national recognition for its
work.
Malik Goodwin serves as a project management executive and coordinates all advisory/ consulting work, pre-development (planning, design and engineering), development (entitlements, regulatory approvals, construction), and post-construction (leasing/ sales) work.
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Waymon has over 30 years of project management/ construction management experience with constructing housing, industrial, and infrastructure projects.
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George Jackson spent 27 years with DTE Energy as the former director of customer marketing. Additionally, the principals of GWJ spent 13 years together as the executive leadership team for Detroit Economic Growth Corporation (“DEGC”), the lead economic development agency for the City of Detroit. Under the leadership of George, approximately $10 billion was invested and 35,000 new jobs were created within the city limits. The relationships established as a part of our work with the city, county, and the state of Michigan are unmatched in the region, along with GWJ’s network of private investors who remain interested in Detroit real estate development opportunities.
During their time at the DEGC, the GWJ principals also successfully created and directly implemented and/or led many successful economic development programs on behalf of the City of Detroit, ranging from a business-to-business procurement program (D2D), a pilot neighborhood pop-up retail effort called REVOLVE (the precursor to the Motor City Match program), an energy efficiency upgrade grant and loan program (Smart Buildings Detroit/Better Buildings for Michigan), demolition and façade and streetscape improvement programs (as part of the City of Detroit Downtown Development Authority Lower Woodward Improvement Program), and large-scale economic development and urban planning studies (Detroit Works-Long-Term Planning/Detroit Future City).
We are proud to be a minority-owned business in the heart of Detroit, blazing a path and setting an example as a successful development consultant in Michigan and other markets.
GWJ has a full-service approach to economic development. GWJ has the capability to provide our clients with consulting services, and real estate related owner’s representative services for site selection, financial analysis, incentive packaging, city entitlements/ regulatory approval expediting, procurement strategy development and execution, pre-construction and project commissioning, and community engagement.
GWJ staffs its projects with principal leads. This team has significant development experience with planning, but also with marketing, business attraction and retention, financing, designing and constructing projects, and implementing programs.
Economic Development