 grand rapids here they come from mark j perry s blog  s ome companies are now relocating from california to michigan according to this report from joe vranich 70 companies left california from january 1 through april 15 of this year and the 3 destination behind texas 14 and arizona 6 was michigan with four relocations tied with nevada and just last thursday an irvingbased company blackford capital announced that it s the fifth california company heading this year for greener and more businessfriendly pastures in grand rapids michigan that s disinvestment event 78 so far this year according to vranich who regularly tracks the companies moving out of california the post also mentioned that renting a uhaul from los angeles to grand rapids is more expensive than renting one from gr to la meaning that demand is greater heading to michigan than to california what happened on january 1st of this year hmm hellip football games yes but that probably didn t have anything to do with it oh i know governor snyder was inaugurated and he didn t even need to take a trip to japan to bring jobs here  