Bessemer DDA gets mini-marketing grant from WUPPDR

By P.J. GLISSON

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BESSEMER — Members of Bessemer’s Downtown Development Authority learned Thursday that they received an $8,000 grant from the Western Upper Peninsula Planning and Development Region.

City manager Charly Loper said the funds, which include an additional $2,000 required match from the DDA, will be applied to creating videos aimed at marketing the city as a great place in which to work and live.

“We are going to be focusing on six short videos of people who work here,” said Loper, who added that attention will be on the DDA’s pop-up shop program, which suppo...