GRAND RAPIDS, MI — In Michigan, images of people jogging, bicycling and fishing by the riverfront are usually associated with Grand Rapids, not Detroit. But the beautiful scenes of riverside recreation shown at the Grand Rapids Art Museum were all east side on Tuesday, during a presentation on promising urban revitalization efforts and innovations happening [...]
Phil Cooley’s latest Corktown project, the Pony Ride, has a fun name but a serious mission: To turn the foreclosure crisis on its head. The Slows Bar BQ owner beat out would-be land speculators in a tax sale this spring, purchasing a 30,000-square-foot building at the corner of Porter and Vermont for a cool $100,000. Instead [...]