TechTown takes off: High-tech startups flourish at Wayne State site

TechTown is filling up quickly these days.

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Detroit --In a city where roughly one-quarter of available office space is empty, TechTown stands out as an economic anomaly.

The business incubator, launched by Wayne State University in 2004, can't set up space quickly enough to satiate the demands of dozens of small startup businesses vying for room in a building once used to design Chevrolets.

"We've got quite the waiting list," said Randall Charlton, TechTown's executive director. "The need for what TechTown has to offer has never been greater."

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