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Rich DeVos and Joan and Peter Secchia unveil the new statue of Lucius Lyon.

Reges touched many with expertise, caring approach

Published: December 22, 2008

Grand Rapids Business Journal, like dozens of city institutions, owes some debt to Tom Reges, who died Tuesday, Dec. 16, at his home. The architect, hired away from Philadelphia by Daverman & Associates, was instrumental in the city's 1960’s urban renewal along with Old Kent Bank CEO Richard Gillette, in Grand Rapids’ conversion of its main downtown street to a pedestrian mall in the '70s, in preservation of Heritage Hill when it was targeted for development, and in spearheading the Indian Village complex in the Burton Street/Breton Road area.

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