City Committee A Huge Disappointment
Published: June 5, 2006
"The Grand Rapids area is the fastest growing region in Michigan and the second fastest growing region in the upper Midwest." So reads the City of Grand Rapids Request for Letters of Interest (and we stress the city's use of the word "letters" of interest). Perhaps the city also should have issued a "Letter of Warning" fully informing developers from across the country that this is a community full of naysayers, irrevocably given to the belief that every glass is half empty, even after it overflows.

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