Union Square’s rooftop pool featured in national magazine

The struggles of a veteran pool installer make national news when a luxury rooftop pool on Grand Rapids’ west side is greeted by Mother Nature who’s not in the mood for spring cleaning.

According to excerpts from the story:

After 42 years in the business, you’d think John Spoelstra would be ready to call it quits. But he keeps taking his work to new heights, specifically, four stories in the air.

Union High School, built in the late 1890s and located two blocks from downtown Grand Rapids, Mich., was recently converted into condominiums after spending 10 years in limbo as the location of a variety of projects. The owner of the building wanted to add a pool and hot tub combo on the roof of the old gym, which was added to the building right before the Great Depression.

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