The company’s 151 full time employees will each get $1,000; its 17 part-time workers will get $500 and its nine seasonal workers will each get $250.
WYOMING, MI – Land & Co., which operates 19 apartment communities in West Michigan, announced it will give its employees a special bonus of up to $1,000 in response the federal tax cut legislation signed recently by President Donald Trump.
“Land & Co. believes the Trump Tax Cut has generated a more optimistic vision for the future of business in West Michigan and the United States of America and wants their wonderful employees to be a part of and share in that vision,” the company said in a statement attributed to its owners, Roger Lucas and Dan Hibma on Monday, Feb. 5.
Land & Co.’s 151 full-time employees will each get $1,000; its 17 part-time workers will get $500 and its nine seasonal workers will each get $250.
Lucas and Hibma said they would not comment beyond the announcement.
Hibma is married to Terri Lynn Land, a former Michigan Secretary of State and Republican who staged an unsuccessful run for the U. S. Senate in 2014.
Land donated $12,500 to the Trump Victory Political Action Committee in October of 2016, according federal campaign finance records. Hibma and Land also each donated $2,700 to Republican Presidential candidate Jeb Bush in 2015, according to campaign records.
Hibma and Lucas each donated $1,000 to the National Apartment Association Political Action Committee in 2015 and 2016, according to campaign finance records.
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Lucas also is the developer behind the Grand Castle Apartments, a 500-unit apartment complex being built near the intersection of Int. 196 and 28 th Street SW in Grandville.
The 15-story project, which originally was to have been completed in the summer of 2017, is accepting reservations but no move-in date has been announced. The property is being managed by Land & Co..
Lucas modeled the turreted complex after the Neuschwanstein castle in southern Germany. The Bavarian castle is one of the most popular of European castles and the inspiration for Disney World’s Cinderella Castle.
With more than 1 million square feet when completed, Grand Castle will rank as the second largest castle structure in the world, said Lucas, a castle aficionado who he estimates has visited Neuschwanstein at least 10 times.
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