The Detroit Economic Growth Corp. has hired seven business liaisons for individual City Council districts who serve as a conduit between city government and businesses large and small in Detroit. Tenecia Johnson, the business liaison for District 1, and DEGC Vice President Mike Rafferty talked to Crain's Senior Reporter Chad Livengood about the new outreach and what the DEGC is doing to help foster small business development in the city's neighborhood commercial cooridors.