Quality of Life
You might receive a postcard from the City asking if you like living in Grand Rapids — Here's why.
by (allisondonahue)
Submitted 02-01-2024 under NEWS
As part of its ongoing strategic planning efforts to improve services, the City of Grand Rapids is conducting a National Community Survey (NCS) to evaluate benchmark metrics obtained from the first 2022 NCS survey and to steer decisions in Fiscal...
Building Collective Power and Going Upstream: Quality of Life in the Heartside/Downtown Neighborhood
by (DwellingPlace)
Submitted 04-06-2023 under NONPROFITS
“There are many different ways to provide for others, but Quality of Life helps us know what the community actually wants. It helps to empower the people,” says Heartside neighbor Doreen Timmers. Quality of Life is a community-wide...
Community updates: Wednesday, Dec. 1
by (The Rapidian)
Submitted 12-01-2021 under NEWS
ArtPrize returns to annual format ArtPrize will be back in 2022—along with its original every-year schedule, it announced Tuesday. Next year’s return of the Grand Rapids-based international art competition marks the first time ArtPrize...
Despite Highly Engaged Community, Heartside Residents Fear Displacement
by (DwellingPlace)
Submitted 11-22-2019 under NONPROFITS
“It's growing in a positive direction, people are listening to resident suggestions”, a resident of the Heartside neighborhood responded when asked to describe the strengths of their neighborhood as part of the Hearside...
Positioning Residents to be the Voice of Change
by (DwellingPlace)
Submitted 08-13-2019 under NONPROFITS
“You can build all the buildings in the world, but unless you create relationships and connections with residents, things won’t happen,” explains Suzanne Schultz, the outgoing Managing Director of Design and Development for the...
Silhouettes celebrate community members' vision
by (DwellingPlace)
Submitted 10-26-2018 under NONPROFITS
Up and down the business corridor of Heartside, there are new figures popping up in storefront windows. The eight silhouettes displayed in storefronts along Division represent different resident leaders sharing their hopes for the future of the...