Seeking diverse
businesses.
Join our minority-owned and women-owned businesses enterprise database
As a Tribally-owned business, we hold diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything we do. That’s why we decided to put together a community of minority-owned and women-owned businesses—to create more opportunities for conversation, networking, and support.
Relationships
McKAY TOWER
It is with great enthusiasm that Gun Lake Investments is announcing a rare and historic partnership with Waseyabek Development Corporation to acquire the iconic McKay Tower!
Stockbridge Retail
Stockbridge is GLI’s first commercial real estate investment. With strong tenants and experienced investment partners, this project will provide stable cash flows and accomplish our goal of developing a stronger community.
Chi Ishobak
We’ve partnered with Chi Ishobak, a Certified Native Community Development Financial Institution, to help our tribal citizens progress toward a financially self-sustaining future.
CSM
Gun Lake Investments is partnering with CSM, a local facility service company, to help them reach their full potential.
Subway
By investing in Subway, one of the most iconic and well established brands in the world, GLI is furthering its mission to create economic, employment, and individual investment opportunities for the Tribal community we serve.
Noonday Market
Gun Lake Investments is constantly seeking opportunities to help establish a self-sufficient Tribal economy. The successful launch of Noonday Market brought one of those opportunities to life.
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News & Insights
Michigan tribes face ‘circular exclusion’ from key minority business certification
“As soon as we asked to access their database of other Michigan minority-owned companies, they kicked us out from being a corporate member. When I contacted them to just help through what I thought was an obvious misunderstanding, they had explained that it was not a misunderstanding: Minority-owned companies cannot be corporate members,” Trevan said. As such, Trevan said he is left wrestling with the “circular exclusion” on the part of the MMSDC. “We are not permitted to be a corporate sponsor because in MMSDC’s judgment, we are minority owned, but MMSDC will not certify us as minority owned,” he said, adding “there’s just artificial or arbitrary obstacles that are being created for us to continue to help us promote our own values and access other diverse companies.”
Study Shows Non-Gaming Tribal Businesses in Michigan Generate Economic Impact of $288M
Media Release-Grand Rapids, Mich. (July 8, 2020) – Non-gaming business entities from nine federally-recognized Michigan tribes presented Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s office and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation with an economic impact study this week demonstrating that 38 non-gaming business entities, owned and managed by tribes in Michigan, generated a statewide economic impact of $288,756,091 in 2019.
Michigan Non-Gaming Tribal Economic Impact Study
The overall economic activity of non-gaming tribal business entities (TBE) within the state has a significant economic impact on their local economies as well as that of the State of Michigan.