REGIONAL QUALITY OF LIFE ARTICLES

• Gilmore Waterfront Park plan taking shape in East Grand Rapids
• Education opportunity spurs GRCC to go ‘green’ with proposed $650K live roof
• Recognized as national model, children's health initiative receives $412K in grants
• Legislative luncheon targets mass transit funding for Grand Rapids
• Michigan works to connect investors with inventors, build the knowledge economy
• Three leading-edge cancer treatments come to Grand Rapids
• Grand Rapids forum debuts first-ever standards for racism-free organizations
• Grand Rapids IT company aggressively hiring web designers
• Grand Rapids prep academy swamped with applicants
• Eight Michigan health systems form coalition to improve services, costs
• New women’s health research lab taking shape on Medical Mile
• First-ever regional policy conference aims to get Lansing’s attention
• $19M Verne Barry Place puts new live/work space on Avenue for the Arts
• WIRED moves West Michigan into next phase of transition to the Digital Age
• GVSU selected for nationwide sustainability rating pilot project
• 10th annual Tech Trends conference eyes technology of the future
• Grand Rapids' $29 million Rapid Bus leads Michigan's mass transit movement
• Entrepreneurship 101 a growing trend, colleges say
• Aquinas recruits star athlete to spearhead sports center campaign
• Literacy Center's success draws national spotlight
• Waterfront Film Festival gearing up for benchmark anniversary
• Ada township buys 96 more acres of parkland
• Southern gateway to Grand Rapids gets $735K facelift
• From Grand Rapids, Michigan's top 'green' builder executes $28M in LEED projects
• Organization saves plants and trees from former Metro Hospital site
• Midtown residents push Conservation District to protect neighborhood character
• GRAM's director has spent her career in art
• New study proves mass transit significantly reduces greenhouse gases
• DeVos venture base camp for Boy Scouts first of its kind in Michigan
• Young Professionals invited to Download GR
• 80 plus nominated for neighborhood business awards
• Sculpture commemorates Grand Rapids' pioneering public health advancement
• Collaboration comes in many form
• Creativity and Collaboration....
• Madison Square plans for parks, walking, and new business
• Garfield Park-Alger Heights-Grandville Ave - Diversity is celebrated in this neighborhood.
• Fresh Food Fever

• The Rapid wins approval, and perhaps $29 million, for Michigan's biggest transit project yet
• Demand for nuclear medicine drives $5M expansion at Heartside hospital
• Growth at Spectrum Health spurs 500 clinical healthcare positions by year's end
• $90M Secchia Center sets 234-foot tower crane in prep for construction
• VAI partners with Chicago Research Center to facilitate pediatric research
• $7M Hyatt hotel planned for Grand Rapids' Health Hill
• Bishop's Furniture set to become $3.4M childcare center for Spectrum Health
• $4M factory rehab brings new restaurant and nine condos to North Monroe
• 'Faith in Grand Rapids' leads downtown tailor to expand shop, services
• $450K coffee house latest storefront on Medical Mile
• Swedish tech company finds home in Grand Rapids
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• Michigan entrepreneurs ready to change state's image
• Five new storefronts in Heartside's $19M Verne Barry Place
• Sports Commission partnerships could generate $12M in tourism
• Ada firm innovates way to 40 original patents, 15 new jobs, and $1B in revenue
• West Michigan must get younger, smarter, more urban-minded to compete, study says
• WIRED innovation helps workers stay on the job, saves Michigan $1M
• Economic leaders target talent growth
• Herman Miller named among 50 most innovative companies
• Michigan's tourism industry gets $60M boost from state
• Cascade manufacturer evolves into wind energy
• Partnership leads to online resource for West Michigan Tech Jobs listings
• State's natural resources worth $1.6B annually study says
• Statewide award names Grand Rapids Chamber Michigan's best
• Calvin lands grant to teach engineering students entrepreneurship
• GRCC tests new ways to teach 'whole brain' thinking
• Grand Rapids employs more than most of state
• $4.3M Grand Rapids Ballet Theatre opens to rave reviews
• $600K development revives dreary Grand Rapids corner with 'New Urbanist' design
• Grand Rapids firm creates software to help workers find jobs that 'fit'
• VAI honors two renowned researchers for cancer prevention discoveries
• GR DDA seeks retail businesses for urban core
• International investment firm places 19 financial advisors in West Michigan; plans to hire six more
• $27M human services building ready to break ground in south GR
• MSU's Simon says med school is creating a 'very, very special model'
• Regional software conference aims to boost Michigan's competitiveness
• $23M Women's Health Center will 'feel like a spa'
• "Unbuildable" EGR lakeside transformed with LEED-certified floating house
• European Gastro Pub celebrates grand opening in East Hills
• With momentum building, Technology Initiative names new leader
• Educational leadership initiative gets $2.3M for math and science training A City as a Work of Art