In 2013, the City of Fenton Local Development Finance Authority commissioned a study by the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Labor, Employment and the Economy to create a marketing and redevelopment plan for the Fenton U.S.-23 Industrial Park. The Local Development Finance Authority sought recommendations to attract more businesses to the industrial park and to possibly implement the ideas of this study to make the Industrial Park a more viable business site in the region. Read the Regional Profile and Marketing Plan (PDF).