The new international project represents a bigger investment than the construction of Comerica Park and Ford Field combined, the Detroit Free Pres reports.
Southwest Detroit and Windsor will see workers delivering materials, hanging steel, building bridge decks and pouring cement for bridge approaches to local roadways.
The work will be split between Canada and the U.S. -- even though the Canadian government has agreed to pick up Michigan's $550-million share of the upfront costs -- but that still means there will likely be thousands of jobs on the U.S. side of the border, if the bridge is built as planned.
The Ann Arbor-based Center for Automotive Research (CAR) released a study showing an economic ripple employing 5,000-6,000 people in Michigan in each of the four years the bridge is being built. Another 2,000-3,000 people a year would be employed outside of the state in the U.S. as a direct or indirect result of the bridge, the group said.
