A transmission pipeline under Market Avenue SW will deliver approximately 140,000 gallons of water discharge carrying highly concentrated brewing wastes from its first customer, Founders Brewing Co., to the biodigester at the City’s Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF).
Investment dollars from Michigan Community Capital and MDEQ grant will help fund development of 449 - 499 Bridge St. NW as housing destination for people earning less than 80 percent of area median income.
Mechanical contracting firm Allied Mechanical Services (AMS) recently completed a 4,673 square-foot renovation that included nine private offices and two workstations. Custer Inc., a provider of workplace design, office furniture, integrated technology, and interior remodels, oversaw the project.
The Fulton Street Farmers Market 2018 summer season offers additional parking, new bike racks, upgrades to bathrooms and signage, more vendors, and a family-friendly Summer Night Series from 5 to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays.
The City of Grand Rapids plans on earning WHO age-friendly community designation. In early May, the City Commission unanimously approved the first step by creating an Age-Friendly Advisory Council. Their goal will be to develop a community action plan that makes Grand Rapids a great place for older adults.
As a Michigan Good Food Fund (MGFF) lender, Grand Rapids Opportunities for Women (GROW) will help more West Michigan businesses to finance their enterprises—with one uncommon requirement—the business must seek to increase access to affordable, healthy food in an income-challenged, underserved, Michigan community.
Fulton Square, a mixed-use development project at 1 Carlton Ave. SE in Eastown, recently welcomed its final retail occupant, MODRN GR. The urban home furnishing boutique joins two other woman-owned businesses, Ada Mae, women’s apparel, and E+L Salon, as well as anchor tenant, Danzon Cubano Eastown.
City’s SmartZone Local Development Finance Authority has agreed to grant $384,306 over a three-year period for the Innovation Central Advanced Technology Educational Initiative, which at its centerpiece includes creating a new state-of-the-art engineering lab.
City of Grand Rapids’ Leadership and Employment, Achievement and Direction (LEAD) program trains youth in civic engagement, leadership, and employment skills. Free and open to residents ages 15 to 24 and those attending college in the greater Grand Rapids area. From May 1 through 15, the first of two cohorts will target youth at the upper end of the age spectrum, ages 18 through 24.
As the final phase of its $66.4 million expansion and renovation project, Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital recently opened 10 additional new rooms at the Inn at Mary Free Bed, a lodging alternative that provides a practical solution to two challenges facing Mary Free Bed’s longer-term rehabilitation patients. One, the Inn provides a home away from home for their family members. Two, patients who no longer need nursing care but aren’t ready to go home can stay with their families at the Inn as they continue rehabilitation. In 2017, more than 3,700 people stayed at the Inn. Mary Free Bed plans on adding another six rooms to the Inn, for a total of 22 rooms.
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