Marie Lockerd

Marie Lockerd's Latest Articles

Thought For Food: Revisiting Bartertown’s Unassuming Revolution

By Marie Lockerd

●

General

●

May 10, 2012

Last year, Bartertown Diner opened in downtown Grand Rapids as a worker-run vegan/vegetarian restaurant specializing in local, organic fare. Rapid Growth's Marie Lockerd stops by to see how they've grown and what they've accomplished in year one. 

Haylea Gray of One Girl’s Treasure: Reincarnating Fashion

By Marie Lockerd

●

Entrepreneurship

●

October 6, 2011

Fashion re-sale shop One Girl's Treasure may have opened downtown in 2007, but has been under the ownership of Haylea Gray since only 2010. What's changed in the past year, and how is this fashion hub set apart from others of its kind?