The Small City 'Entrepreneur' Magazine Named One of the Country's Most Innovative Is Also Home to the $1 Billion Mega Millions WinnerWe knew that Novi, MI was a hotbed for business investment, but couldn't have predicted it would be the epicenter of a historic lottery jackpot.
ByKenny Herzog•
Last month, we hailed the Detroit suburb of Novi, MI as the number-two American-heartland cityessential to the future of innovation. Clearly, we underestimated just how much mojo the industrious, Great Lakes-adjacent hub of roughly 60,000 people had going for it.
This past Friday, an as-yet-unnamed Michigonianpurchased a winning, 10.5亿美元在克罗格的超级百万机票upermarket in Novi. It's the third-largest prize in U.S. lottery history. (Odds of winning were placed at one in 302.5 million. To put that into perspective, the total U.S. population currently stands a bit shy of 330 million.)
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Novi Mayor Bob Gatt gloated totheNew York Timesover the weekend about both the jackpot and his city's high placement on Entrepreneur's ranking of innovative cities. Hopefully whoever does come forward to claim their fortune feels as bullish on investment in Gatt's city as we do.
