Fred Quillin is full of boundless energy and a love for the past, present and future of the city in which he lives. While he didn't win the prize money when he presented in May 2011's edition of 5x5, his idea has pressed on via Kickstarter and community support. Read on, because you're about to learn a lot about Grand Rapids that you never knew before... and you also might buy a new T-shirt.
The story of GRid70 is not a story of architecture or downtown real estate. It's not a story just about money, or design or creative people in a collaborative space. GRid70 is making something new, to refashion isolated, fief-driven company cultures into a co-operative, collaborative, distributed environment.
Grand Rapids-based, full-service printing company Verdant Graphics focuses on environmentally friendly products and processes. Serial entrepreneur Don Kallil talks about how they're making it happen in an electronic world, and doing it green.
Grand Rapids has spent much of the past century as a manufacturing power house. With the changing global economy, what does the future hold for our community?
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