Why a hot drone startup ditched California for Detroit

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More than fifteen years ago Detroit made a major push to have the then early drone industry locate in Detroit. I attended a meeting at the old City Airport where several hangers had been converted to offices for drone startups. Some of them were quite promising but China took over the consumer industry for drones and they all failed.

Detroit has two major advantages: More manufacturing and engineering talent than anywhere else in America and the greater Detroit metro area has the fifth largest amount of software developers in the U.S. I would hope drone companied would at least investigate Detroit.

Confused by your original URL, it's not a USAToday story - and that's evident by what's posted (just a landing page). It should have been: https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/michigan/2026/01/...

Looks like steelerswire.usatoday.com needs to be dropped as a source.