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And the survey says: We believe!
A survey of the state’s largest employers, members of the Business Leaders for Michigan group, shows they are increasingly optimistic about Michigan’s short- and long-term economic future.
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Collaboration group sets agenda
The new Community Collaboration Work Group recently held its first meeting. The work group was created by Kent County in response to One Kent Coalition’s desire to consolidate the county and city of Grand Rapids into a single metropolitan government.
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Comedy and mystery on the menu
“On sheer volume, nobody does more than we do, period. I hate saying we’re the Wal-Mart of this, but we really are. We make it affordable for the masses and we work on a volume scale,” said Scott Cramton of The Murder Mystery Co., based in Grand Rapids.
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Creston CPA follows in his father’s footsteps
Duane Culver and other community leaders in his business’s neighborhood are spearheading the Creston Corridor Initiative.
Duane Culver, owner of the professional certified public accounting and financial services firm Culver CPA Group, is a problem solver.
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DDA adjusts its budget for improvements
The Grand Rapids Downtown Development Authority is rebalancing its budget for improvements it plans to make in the district. Eleven projects were on the board’s to-do list, but a few of those are done and several others won’t get started for a few years. At the same time, the DDA is considering adding two more projects to its list.
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Europe more important than GDP
The executive managing director of market analytics for Colliers International sees modest or no growth for the nation’s economy this year if Congress and the president don’t take action.
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Fitness therapy seen as extension to physical therapy
Greg Kirk, founder of Fitness Therapy Unlimited, sees fitness therapy as a way to keep patients from returning for more physical therapy.When Greg Kirk worked for a year as an athletic trainer at the Detroit-based Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, he noticed it wasn’t uncommon for physical therapy patients to return weeks or months after their treatment had ended. Worse still were therapists’ and patients’ shrugs of resignation that returning for therapy was, for some, inevitable.
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Hospice care makes headway in West Michigan
Faith Hospice is in the planning stages of doubling the number of its beds at its facility in Byron Center, further proof the public has eased away from looking askance at palliative care for terminally ill patients, said the nonprofit's vice president of marketing.
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New bank coming to downtown
The Downtown Development Authority began mapping out a plan last week for what the board calls “signature events” that it hopes will provide a positive economic impact for downtown businesses, and awarded a building reuse grant to the soon-to-be home of a new bank.
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Public Record
MORTGAGESSelected mortgages filed with Kent County Register of Deeds
WILCOX, Richard M. et al, Founders Bank & Trust, Ada Twp., 24-7-10, $417,000
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Snyder’s 2012 forecast: To be continued
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder last week offered his second State of the State address, but if anyone expected an outline of new initiatives that remotely compared to his galvanizing fundamentals of 2011, they may have been disappointed. The word “fundamental” is operative in this regard, and Snyder followed up the speech later in the week to emphasize: “2012 must be devoted to continuing the state’s reinvention by taking care of unfinished business.”
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