DEVELOPING GRAND RAPIDS

Here’s a tour of Downtown’s new Art Museum

This is a feature in this weeks edition of Rapid Growth. I’m reposting here untouched mostly for transcoding comparison.

After 5 years of dreaming and scheming, co-owners Tami and Jeff VandenBerg are just weeks away from opening the Meanwhile Bar!

It was once the Creston Branch of Old Kent Bank, it was also the Creston Library, now it’s the Red Ball Jet Cafe. I was able to catch up with Greg Gilmore and ask him a few questions about the Gilmore Collections latest effort in the Creston / Cheshire neighborhood of Grand Rapids.

I caught up with Brice Bossardet of Virgin Soil Development and had him show me around their latest project. Personally, I feel sorry for the contractors… Brice can keep an eye on them from his home across the street

I got together with developer Mary Witte to talk about Tall House, an exciting condo project located at 45 Ionia Ave, Grand Rapids Mi.

John Green and the Elevation group throw a Pre-Grand Opening Party for their student housing project in Downtown Grand Rapids. This is a very exciting project downtown and I personally love the integration of public transit that is built in to their plan.

Terra Firma Development and Second Story Properties are revitalizing the very unique Anheuser-Busch Icehouse located at 72 Grandville Ave.

Thanks to Justin Hood and Eric Wynsma for the tour and updates on construction and marketing activity.

So, my family and I are embarking on a little development project of our own. We bought a HUD house that needs a lot of TLC.  So I’m starting another vlog to chronicle the my Do-It-Yourself renovation adventures on ‘This Old GR House‘.

We’re not exactly going to be ‘flipping’ this house but we do intend to sell it in a couple of years.  I hope you’ll follow along and maybe learn something from the many mistakes I’m sure I’ll make along the way…

I re-cut this piece for use on Rapid Growth’s site you can check that version out here.

Today I was walking by the new Grand Rapids Art Museum (on my way to lunch at the Olive Express - mmmmmm). I shot some clips of the work going on and the current state of construction to share with y’all. Enjoy