The colorful Google sign won't be moving from downtown Ann Arbor for another five years, according to an article published today in Crain's Detroit Business.

The publication is quoting a Google spokesman as saying the search-engine giant renewed its deal for 80,000 square feet in McKinley Towne Centre on South Division.

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Workers clean the Google sign last April. It's located on the South Division Street side of McKinley Towne Centre in downtown Ann Arbor

Angela Cesere | AnnArbor.com

Google operates its AdWords sales division there, after moving it to Ann Arbor in 2006 with promises of creating up to 1,000 jobs.

The company resists talking about its hiring plans, but AdWords director Mike Miller told AnnArbor.com in July 2009 that it employed about 250 people in Ann Arbor.

Read the rest of the article here.

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