Once the breadbasket of Grand Rapids, the Creston-Cheshire district today is the city’s playground. With bike trails extending across the state, the Grand River, and eight parks, two of them among the city’s largest, Creston-Cheshire offers plenty of opportunity to enjoy the great outdoors in an urban setting.
It also showcases strong and stable neighborhoods, highly successful inner-city school programs, a thriving business district, and an energetic nightlife. Where else in Grand Rapids can you find authentic Irish music and poetry slams on the same street on the same night?
Settled by determined Dutch, Irish, German, and Polish immigrants, Creston-Cheshire has undergone a great deal of change since its development 150 years ago. But the district today remains true to its founding values: diversity, neighborliness, and hard work.
For more information about Creston-Cheshire visit the Rapid Growth:
- Visiting Guide
- Moving Guide
- Investing Guide
Jeff Hill
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Grand Rapids has spent much of the past century as a manufacturing power house. With the changing global economy, what does the future hold for our community?
J. Hill
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Bikes and cars in Grand Rapids, sharing the roads in harmony? Some people have that dream. Come find out what it's all about June 29.
Victoria Mullen
Thursday, July 29, 2010
It blurrs the line between technology and art, but that is exactly the purpose of GeekAid version 5. Keith Brophy, Mark Schmidt and Nate Lewis say the community needs to support kids who want to enter the technology and art fields, and the GeekAid fesitval to be held Aug. 28 is the ticket to do just that.
Mitchell Terpstra
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Some art you pass by, some art you look at, and some art sucks you in. Local artist Joel Berry creates the third kind, turning everyday objects into art that is far from commonplace.
John Hogan
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Through the volunteer work of gardeners and landscapers such as Daniel Monsma, the metropolitan area is maintaining its beauty when tax dollars are tight. Come Friday there will be trucks dispatched around Grand Rapids to plant trees in public spaces in celebration of Arbor Day, the original green holiday.
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