ANN ARBOR is said on Monday night that google has a plan of constructing an office and research center that will have up to 1000 employees and also people who had been briefed on the plan.

An announcement is to be given by Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm at a news conference at the state Capitol in Lansing on Tuesday morning.

In the hometown of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the place where one of Google founder Larry Page earned his undergraduate degree in engineering, Google has a plan of opening a centre.

Mr. Page, a Michigan native, has conserved close ties with the university; his company is in the middle of a project to digitize all seven million volumes in the university’s libraries.

As per the last year report in The Ann Arbor Business Review, Google has been scouting the city for up to 240,000 square feet of office space. The report said, Ann Arbor was among a handful of latent cities chosen from an early list of 50.

Nearly all of the space would be used for a technology seo and call center, obligatory to house the library digitization project with about 40,000 sq.ft, that was caught up by court challenges over copyrights.

A Google spokesman who is seeking comment will not return any calls. A spokeswoman for the governor declined to comment.

The investment is a much-needed boost up for Ms.Granholm, the state’s Democratic governor, who is in a tough re-election race. When Michigan did not compete aggressively for a Honda plant that is to be built in Indiana she was censured last month.

People taking part in the discussions on that factory said that she has been lobbying hard to have a Toyota engine plant opened in the state, but a verdict on that factory may not come yet until after the election to be held in November.

Since 2000 Michigan has lost nearly 300,000 jobs, and its jobless rate has been escalating than the national average for 57 successive months. Southeast Michigan, where numerous auto plants have closed, is trying to shed its Rust Belt image and market itself as a technology hub in an attempt to make up for some job losses.

Based in Mountain View, Calif., Google is spending $1.5 billion this year on operations centers and on custom technology and has been on an investment binge.

Micheline Maynard accounted from Ann Arbor, Mich. , for this search engine optimization articles and Nick Bunkley from Detroit.