On 5x5 Night
Submitted 01-28-2011 under NONPROFITS
A lot of people have asked us recently about our thoughts on the newly announced 5x5 Night, and some of the similarities it shares with Sunday Soup. We are not sure how much of 5x5 Night is directly inspired by Sunday Soup, but - really - it doesn'...
New Building Breaks Ground In Heartside
Submitted 01-27-2011 under NONPROFITS
Doug Bouwer of High Pointe Real Estate attended the January Heartside Business Association meeting to share plans for an extension at 245 Cherry Street. The current health facility expansion will include an additional 50 thousand square feet of...
New Event To Generate Ideas and Prize Money
Submitted 01-27-2011 under NEWS
ArtPrize founder Rick DeVos today announced 5x5 Night (pronounced “five by five”) a new event to be held the last Tuesday evening of each month in Grand Rapids. Five presenters will have five minutes each to sum up their ideas with five slides. Five...
Dear Newsweek - An open letter from Mayor George K. Heartwell
Submitted 01-25-2011 under OPINION
Dear Ms. Brown: The citizens of Grand Rapids were astounded when you declared our city, Grand Rapids, to be a "dying city" in the January 21, 2011 issue of Newsweek. Dying city? Surely Newsweek must be joking! Would a major medical school...
"Brick throwers" strike again, damage two uptown eateries
Submitted 01-25-2011 under NEWS
Exactly one month later to the day, at least two more businesses along Wealthy Street were vandalized. Both Brick Road Pizza Co. (1017 Wealthy St.) and the Electric Cheetah (1015 Wealthy St.) had windows smashed out at approximately 4:30 a.m....
Steelcase Designers Offer their Skills to Well House
Submitted 01-19-2011 under NONPROFITS
By: Teresa Zbiciak, Volunteer Center Program Assistant Across the nation, corporations are increasingly integrating skills-based volunteerism and pro bono work into their philanthropic goals. At Volunteer Center GR, we are thinking about new...
Startup Weekend 2011 yields nine new projects
Submitted 01-17-2011 under NEWS
Come year three, Startup Weekend will need to upgrade its space. On Friday night, 75 participants from as far as Lansing, Mich. crammed into The Factory (38 W. Fulton), a business incubator space in downtown Grand Rapids. Participants heard 21...
Grand Rapidians discuss Uptown as a collection of businesses and neighborhoods at Rapid Growth forum
Submitted 01-13-2011 under NEWS
Familiar faces from the local media scene, Uptown business owners and local politicians filed into Wealthy Theatre on Wednesday evening for Rapid Growth Media’s speaker series. Originally a panel, the event was restructured as a public...
Rapid Growth to hold open discussion on perceived effects of Uptown development
Submitted 01-11-2011 under LOCAL LIFE
Local online publication Rapid Growth Media has revised its much anticipated “Not Your Average Speaker Series: Uptown Urban Revitalization” event, a public discussion on the changing environment in several of Grand Rapids’ southeast business...
Mayor George Heartwell drops the ball, New Years Eve Style
Submitted 01-03-2011 under NEWS
We asked Grand Rapids mayor, George Heartwell, about the HotFm New Years Eve Celebration and what his thoughts were on the year past and the year ahead. Here is what he had to say.