Not news to us...

[mgreven]

Nothing too new in this to us Urban Planet forumers, but an interesting article anyway....

City prepares for growth spurt

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

By Chris Knape

The Grand Rapids Press

GRAND RAPIDS -- Break out the hard hats again.

Downtown developers are planning to break ground on a string of long-planned projects this fall and winter with combined budgets of nearly $450 million.

While notoriously optimistic construction start dates are prone to last-minute and often lengthy delays, the list of downtown projects poised to start in coming months is among the most lengthy and expensive in the city's history.

The whole article is here:

http://www.mlive.com/business/grpress/inde...3310.xml&coll=6

[superNOVA]

Good to see this. Looks like most of the projects are still looking good. Rare for Grand Rapids.

[GRDadof3]

Nothing too new in this to us Urban Planet forumers, but an interesting article anyway....

City prepares for growth spurt

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

By Chris Knape

The Grand Rapids Press

GRAND RAPIDS -- Break out the hard hats again.

Downtown developers are planning to break ground on a string of long-planned projects this fall and winter with combined budgets of nearly $450 million.

While notoriously optimistic construction start dates are prone to last-minute and often lengthy delays, the list of downtown projects poised to start in coming months is among the most lengthy and expensive in the city's history.

The whole article is here:

http://www.mlive.com/business/grpress/inde...3310.xml&coll=6

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nice new rendering of the Al***or Hotel for that article on the Business front page:

http://www.mlive.com/grpress/frontpage/pdfs/Bu_Tuesday.pdf

[GRCentro]

Nothing too new in this to us Urban Planet forumers, but an interesting article anyway....

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Haha, yeah, I showed the article to a few others and did an "I told you so" about downtown being on the verge of the next development boom. For them, a dead tree hard-copy always seems more convincing.

[terra firma]

Did you see the GR Business Jounal ?

Inside the last page (street talk) there is reference to GR c hapter of Urbanplanet.org

They mention JOE DOWNTOWN and the projects that are in the works...

[GRDadof3]

Did you see the GR Business Jounal ?

Inside the last page (street talk) there is reference to GR c hapter of Urbanplanet.org

They mention JOE DOWNTOWN and the projects that are in the works...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yah, pretty cool! We were talking about it here too:

http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=12353

(last page)

So if there is anything you want for downtown out of the local business community, speak now