Hospitality Jobs heat up on 2025 HotJobs! List
West Michigan’s booming hospitality sector is featured on the 2025 HotJobs! list as a top career path with growth potential.
Rapid Growth's Latest Articles
Looking forward: three times that our publisher took us there
Let’s embrace a more constructive mindset focused on showing up each day, staying open to change, and making thoughtful adjustments along the way as illustrated in the work of our Publisher Tommy Allen at Rapid Growth Media who is embarking on his 19th year with one of the state's largest solutions journalism magazine.
‘I finally felt free’: How a teen found his potential after years in incarceration
At 19, Bilal Al-Raed has lived a life that defies the odds and inspires hope in others. The winner of the Delta Project’s At Potential award talks about his journey.
$1.5M donation for softball field moves project forward
Alro Steel Foundation donates $1.5 million to Meijer Sports Complex expansion for naming rights of championship softball field, brings campaign to $8.7 million.
Join Rapid Growth and Public Sector Consultants for a talent-focused speaker series
Talent retention, recruitment and development are key to a healthy workforce. On October 29, Rapid Growth and Public Sector Consultants will bring together experts in these areas to discuss how Michigan can better diversify, grow and strengthen its labor pool. Read on for more details, and join us for the event at Wealthy Theatre.
Happy Labor Day from Rapid Growth
In honor of workers past and present whose contributions have made our country great, Rapid Growth wishes you and yours a restful and rewarding Labor Day holiday. We'll be taking a short break and look forward to seeing you back here with a fresh batch of stories on Thursday, Sept. 17. In the meantime, enjoy the waning days of summer in West Michigan -- and keep up the good work!
A midsummer gift from Rapid Growth and Vox Vidorra
To mark the Fourth of July holiday, Rapid Growth will be taking next week off. While we're gone, celebrate the country's independence and the city's neighborhoods with this fresh music video by local favorite Vox Vidorra -- and catch the local indie rock/soul act at the kick-off of the Grand Rapids Art Museum's popular annual GRAM on the Green concert series on July 9. We hope it tides you over until we return.
Happy Memorial Day from Rapid Growth
Fashion Has Heart works with area veterans to utilize the mediums of art, design and fashion to benefit, inspire and enrich our nation's veterans. Let's remember our veterans this Memorial Day as we fire up the grill, attend a patriotic parade, pack the car for a road trip, hit the beach, or do whatever it is you do when summer has finally arrived in West Michigan. We'll be taking a week off to mark the Memorial Day holiday, and we'll see you back here with a fresh batch of stories in June.
Happy Spring from Rapid Growth
Happy Spring from Rapid Growth! As warmer temperatures and sunnier, longer days finally come to West Michigan, we'll be off next week. We'll see you back here on Thursday, April 16, with a fresh batch of good stories. In the meantime, enjoy spring cleaning, holiday celebrating, Spring Break traveling, or just cracking your windows open to let the April air inside.
You’re invited: Rapid Growth freelancers’ meet-up!
Calling all writers! Rapid Growth Media is hosting a freelancers' meet-up at LINC on Friday, March 6. Come have a drink, meet the Rapid Growth editor and publisher, and get to know other current and prospective freelance contributors. Read on for all the details.
