The place where art, entertainment, charity, and good eats converge, Heartside is located just southeast of the central city. The historic district features a number of Grand Rapids' most popular destinations. The Van Andel Arena hosts major concerts, and is home to the Griffins hockey team, an affiliate of the Detroit Red Wings. Ionia Avenue is known for its vibrant nightlife. Avenue for the Arts, which runs along Division Avenue, showcases local artistic talent in shops and galleries. And the new Downtown Market, just South of Wealthy Street (not technically in Heartside, but close enough) provides a large selection of year-round produce and food options.Housing in Heartside is on fire, where hundreds of repurposed industrial and early 19th Century commercial spaces have been converted into some of the best residential projects in the Midwest.Heartside is recognized and celebrated for its compassion. So amidst the wi-fi coffee shops and modern lofts is a number of upstanding community kitchens, clothing banks, and other services for less fortunate citizens. Heartside joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Today, it offers some of the more fashionable shopping, dining, and entertainment in the city.
By: Deborah Johnson Wood EmploymentGroup, a West Michigan temporary and permanent staffing firm, this week announced a new program to place returning military veterans in jobs that will enable them […]
As West Michigan continues to attract professionals from other countries to work in its healthcare and life sciences industries, the availability of international travel options boosts the quality of place and quality of life amenities these professionals seek.
In response to the push from business and legislative leaders to develop an alternative energy agenda for Michigan, state leaders are creating a new program that will target specific areas of the state for an influx of federal, state, and local funding for alternative energy research and development.
It’s perhaps Grand Rapids’ most prime piece of undeveloped property, the very visible gateway to the downtown core, and after sitting vacant for three years while developers struggled to secure millions in financing and finalize the vision for the parcel, the development of 2 West Fulton is finally underway.
In what could be the most important economic step in decades for the City of Grand Rapids, civic leaders are urging transit officials to closely review a recent streetcar feasibility study that suggests that just the first 1.6 mile streetcar route could bring some $388 million in investment and 700 jobs.
Development in Grand Rapids has created billions of dollars of investment in the past few years, and another $146.5 million is on the drawing board if just six proposed projects come through.
With proposals on the table from several companies who want to bring billions of dollars of wind, solar, and biofuel energy projects to the state, lawmakers sent a number of bills to the governor for consideration, bills that would provide the financial incentives to lure those businesses, the jobs, and the money to Michigan.
The world is changing dramatically. But Bruce Katz says the federal government is stuck in the 1980's. His Blueprint for American Prosperity aims to bring Uncle Sam into the 21st century, rejuvenate metro areas, and chart a course to prosperity in the modern era
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