Critics Blast $6B Mundy Township Megasite Deal as Costly Failure for Michigan Taxpayers

Critics say Michigan’s economic development agency acted as a lobbyist for private interests while residents were kept in the dark.

LANSING, Mich. — James Hohman of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy told lawmakers this week that Michigan must learn hard lessons from the failed $6 billion incentive deal to lure SanDisk to a proposed megasite in Mundy Township.

Hohman, the center’s director of fiscal policy, testified that state officials overstepped by promising billions in subsid…