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Downtown welcomes statue of pioneering businesswoman
A historic businesswoman has been honored with a seven-foot statue in her image.
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Street Talk: No smoke and mirrors
Skating along.
As Sam Cummings said in the Business Journal’s page 1 story today on the real estate market, speculative office space just isn’t happening.
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Couples give $15M to MSU for downtown research center
The Michigan State University Grand Rapids Research Center project in downtown has received a $15-million injection from a pair of local couples.
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Partners commission documentary on President Ford
Gerald Ford’s legacy as the 38th president is getting a movie deal.
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Street Talk: The two-minute warning
Time away.
Thursday’s groundbreaking for the Grand Rapids Research Center (MSU nowhere in sight in that title) got the ball rolling on an $88.1 million development that is sure to change the makeup of downtown Grand Rapids in the years to come.
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County to hold onto riverfront land
The check will be in the mail soon.
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Opportunity grows with new GRCC Culinary Amphitheater
But recent acquisition will bolster next quarter.
The Grand Rapids community just gained a promising opportunity in the form of the newly opened Pietro and Regina Culinary Amphitheater on the Grand Rapids Community College campus.
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Funny things happened at the Policy Forum
The West Michigan Policy Forum drew participants from far and wide, extending to two happily vocal representatives of the Upper Peninsula and approximately 60 from east Michigan. The final score at the close of the extensive two-day political action party was Marge Byington Potter 1, Peter Secchia 0.
Read MoreSports Commission support worth its weight in gold
Mike Guswiler, executive director of the West Michigan Sports Commission, is likely to have a record number of papers and notes bearing the famed “happy face” signature of former ambassador Peter Secchia, one of the Sports Commission founders. Guswiler recently updated Kent County Commissioners on the returns on the county funding investment of $1 million over five years.
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