9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (165+ words) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — The look of Downtown Grand Rapids is rapidly changing thanks to multiple large projects along the Grand River in various stages of completion. Experience Grand Rapids, a marketing entity for the city, shared a new video highlighting…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (493+ words) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Service Reproduction Co., an art supply store in Grand Rapids, will close this week after 78 years of business on the city's west side. Founded in the 1940s, the family-owned small business initially made its money by printing blueprints…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (265+ words) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — I am getting a closer look at some new potential housing coming to Grand Rapids' West Side. A new $25 million housing and commercial development is moving forward after the Michigan Strategic Fund board approved a $4.75 million Michigan…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (241+ words) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A local environmental agency in Grand Rapids has moved out of the East Hills building it has called home for more than 20 years. The West Michigan Environmental Action Council on Tuesday announced its office space at…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (135+ words) More than 100 new apartments are coming to the west side of Grand Rapids thanks to funding from the Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) Board. The board recently approved a performance-based loan up to $4.75 million for Abode Fulton, LLC to build 109 apartments…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (432+ words) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Last fall, I told you about this vacant old federal building here in my Grand Rapids neighborhood. At the time, the city was working to find a buyer, and they had a deal on the table. But…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (882+ words) East GRAND RAPIDS, MI — With leases signed for two new businesses, Molly’s Café & Deli and FP Movement, Gaslight Village’s ground-floor retail space is now full, a milestone the development’s owner says is “validating” for a controversial project he wants to…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (143+ words) This river that flows through downtown Grand Rapids was "not a place that anybody wanted to go." Now, with six major projects proposed, it aims to be a destination. Grand Rapids riverfront transformation: $1.3B in investment seeks to reshape city In…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (356+ words) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — My Grand Rapids neighborhood is home to lots of businesses, from big corporations to small locally-owned shops. More recently, businesses from the metro Detroit area have expandied west into new territory. "It was the obvious next choice…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (133+ words) A new lease for the Ionia Avenue lot will result in most parking revenue shifting from city's Mobile GR department to Downtown Development Authority. Grand Rapids board to gain an estimated $224,600 from DeVos-owned parking lot GRAND RAPIDS, MI — The Grand…...