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Pontiac Lands Two Corporate HQ Relocations

Commerce Township, MI-based Williams International Co. LLC and Troy, MI-based United Shore Financial Services LLC are relocating their respective corporate headquarters and more than 3,300 workers to Pontiac, MI. The companies are expected to invest nearly $415 million in their facilities, which significantly shifts the city away from a traditional blue-collar job base.

Williams, a defense industry contractor, is relocating from 2280 E. West Maple Rd. to the Michigan Motion Picture Studios building at 1999 Centerpoint Pkwy. The company, which develops and builds small gas turbine engines for cruise missiles, planes and drones, also plans to acquire roughly 120 acres of adjacent vacant land and a nearby building at 2001 Centerpoint for a future up to one-million-square-foot factory.

United Shore, a wholesale mortgage provider, is relocating into a 600,000-square-foot former Hewlett Packard Enterprise building at 585 South Blvd. next summer, which it acquired for $40 million.

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Dennis Kaiser is Vice President of Public Relations and Communications for Connect Creative. Dennis is a communications leader with more than 40 years of experience including as a journalist and in corporate and agency marketing communications roles. He is responsible for Connect Creative’s agency client services and is involved in a range of initiatives ranging from public relations and content strategy, communications and message development, copywriting, media relations, social media and content marketing services. Prior to joining Connect Media in 2015, his most recent corporate communications roles involved leading a regional public relations effort across Southern California for CBRE, playing a key marketing role on JLL’s national retail team, and directing the global public relations effort at ValleyCrest (BrightView), the nation’s largest commercial landscape services company. He has worked on marketing communications assignments for such CRE companies as Blackstone/Equity Office, Carlyle, Caruso, Disney Resorts, GE Capital, Irvine Company, Hines, Howard Hughes Corp., Jeffries, Lennar, MGM, Marcus & Millichap, Prologis, Raleigh Studios, Simon, Starwood, Trammell Crow Company, Transamerica, UBS and Wynn Resorts. Dennis has also worked on communications and launch strategies for a number of consumer electronic, media and tech brands including SlingMedia, Channel Master, Deluxe Media Entertainment, BeIn Sports, EchoStar and Sprint. Dennis’s agency background included firms such as Off Madison Ave., Idea Hall and Macy + Associates. He has earned an outstanding reputation with organization leaders as a trusted advisor, strategic program implementer, consensus builder and exceptional collaborator. Dennis has developed and managed national communications programs for Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, both public and private. He’s successfully worked with journalists across the globe representing clients involved in major-breaking news stories, product launches, media tours, and company news announcements. Dennis has been involved in a host of charitable and community organizations including the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boy Scouts, Chrysalis Foundation, Freedom For Life, HOLA, L.A.’s BEST, Reach Out and Read, Super Bowl Host Committee, and the Thunderbirds Charities.

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