Pfizer job losses are blow to Ann Arbor: University town unaccustomed to such downturns.

From: Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI) | Date: January 23, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Jewel Gopwani

Jan. 23--Ann Arbor, which has been a bright spot in Michigan's bleak economy, got a taste Monday of what the rest of the state is going through. About 2,100 jobs will be gone. Pfizer's 2-million-square-foot research hub will become empty. That's not news you normally hear in a city that has avoided most of the manufacturing job cuts that have plagued the state and last year glowed from new jobs created by Google and a cluster of small techno...

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