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MAREC sees new design for offshore wind turbines

GVSU’s Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center in Muskegon recently hosted a presentation on a new design for floating commercial wind turbines that could...

Dan Vos Construction breaks ground on Caledonia church

Dan Vos Construction in Ada announced last week it has broken ground on the new 6,280-square-foot Spirit of Life Lutheran Church in Caledonia. The new...

GRS&S honored for employee development

GR Spring & Stamping Inc., an automotive supplier based in Grand Rapids, is among several U.S. companies cited in a Sept. 5 report from...

State planning group to honor the DDA for Arena South plan

The Arena South Visioning Plan, which defined the architectural and urban design standards that will be used for future developments downtown, has brought planning...

Ludington hospital becomes Spectrum Health Ludington Oct. 1

The Spectrum Health System board of directors and the directors of Ludington’s Memorial Medical Center have approved the integration of MMC into the Spectrum...

TED speaker Sir Kenneth Robinson at BIFMA 2014 conference

BIFMA, the contract furniture industry’s trade organization based in Grand Rapids, has announced that acclaimed speaker Sir Kenneth Robinson will be the headliner at...

MEDC offers financial support for new hotel

(As seen on WZZM TV 13) Apparently the state has no reservations about a new hotel being built at Mid Towne Village. The Michigan Economic...

Does the county have a prayer?

At the last Kent County commission meeting, a long-held tradition was legally called into question by a Grand Rapids resident. Sam Jones-Darling told the board...

Foundation and nonprofit association team for ‘Superconference’

The financial collapse that created the Great Recession was especially crippling to the nonprofit sector, but in the aftermath, new partnerships and links have...

616 Lofts growth in Grand Rapids, Battle Creek is ‘exciting’

The property manager for 616 Development, 616 Lofts, will be managing more apartments in about two weeks — and many, many more in about...

Season opens on business partnerships with community arts

As the ArtPrize outdoor installations reveal themselves and receptions begin, it is important to note the long commitment and community support of the region’s...

Beta values: Identifying the riskiest West Michigan stocks

Americans like factoids. Because we are buried with tons of information, we love it when someone sorts the noise into simple to understand lists....

Orion Construction heads to Eastown

About the time Orion Construction begins work on Arena Place in downtown, the firm also hopes to start construction on two residential-only buildings in...

The downtown condo market may be coming back

Here are two words you probably haven’t seen juxtaposed in print or online for quite a while: downtown condominiums.  While an outbreak of downtown apartment...

Inside Track: Gillespie’s crowning achievement: businesses supporting each other

His legal name is Thomas Gillespie, but that’s not who he really is. That’s only the name he wore growing up in Grand Rapids, a...

GR lawyer wins in court for wind farm developer

Forest Hill Energy, a Chicago wind energy developer, recently won a court order striking down parts of three Clinton County township ordinances meant to...

GVSU opens state-of-the-art Mary Idema Pew Library

The new Mary Idema Pew Library on Grand Valley State University’s Allendale campus is much more than book stacks. It’s a state-of-the-art facility that...

Climate change regulation without Congressional action?

Invoking a rarely exercised authority, President Barack Obama recently directed the Environmental Protection Agency to require states to establish plans to reduce greenhouse gas...

Sable Homes has yet another development

Sable Homes is a busy builder. John Bitely, president of the Rockford-based residential development firm, recently announced a new construction project planned for the Village...

Cyril Lixenberg exhibition opens Fall Arts Celebration

Grand Valley State University’s annual Fall Arts Celebration begins Sept. 11 with a special opening reception for the exhibition Cyril Lixenberg: An Artist’s Journey,...