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Wheeler swings for fences at Real Estate Forum

Published: October 20, 2008

Talk about a diamond in the rough! John Wheeler, CEO of Rockford Companies, almost whizzed one by the Business Journal last week when he pitched his idea of dropping a baseball diamond onto two city-owned parking lots behind Van Andel Arena and have the West Michigan Whitecaps call it home. Wheeler said his group would buy the remaining debt the ’Caps have on its current field of dreams, Fifth Third Ballpark, to entice the successful Class A franchise to move downtown.

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