Featured Stories
Kelly Quintanilla
Thursday, January 29, 2009
A city's fashion starts from the top down. Rapid Growth takes a hard look at the continued growth and viability of the West Michigan salon scene.
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Kelly Quintanilla
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Beauty is their trade. Meet five of Grand Rapids' hottest stylists.
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Andy Dragt
Thursday, January 29, 2009
It’s been called the convention of all conventions. The Religious Conference Management Association’s annual meeting may have established West Michigan as the place to be for religious meetings and conventions. read on…
George Heartwell
Thursday, January 22, 2009
The mayor has a vision to rebuild West Michigan's urban heart as one of the nation's great cities through youth, education, innovation, transit and sustainability.
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Deb Moore
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Mechanic-turned-artist Patti Wisniewski won’t let being born with nine rare physical disorders slow her down. She instead focuses on her thriving two-year-old Westside business, Accents Gallery.
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Amy Ruis
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Rapid Growth's resident foodie Amy Ruis gives us her picks for eating in the year-gone-by and the year ahead. We even let her pick some in the suburbs.
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Andy Dragt
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Because coffee roasting wasn’t meant to be an industrial operation: Rowster Coffee is showing how a craftsman labor of love can bloom into a bustling local wholesale operation.
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Chris McCarus
Thursday, January 22, 2009
A new study suggests that Michigan's 4,400 Brownfields could be converted into wind and solar energy parks that could remake the state as an alternative energy economy.
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Bridie Kent
Thursday, January 15, 2009
It's the best kind of brunch. Watering holes citywide have turned Sunday into Bloody Mary day.
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Andy Dragt
Thursday, January 15, 2009
It all started because Elekiel needed an atlas to finish his homework. Today the Grandville Ave Neighborhood Library has a new LEED building with an expanded collection.
Chris McCarus
Thursday, January 15, 2009
The fight for the Denison dunes property may be finally coming to an end as the south half of one of the Lakeshore’s last undeveloped properties may soon be sold to the community for preservation…if they can find the money.
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Mary Radigan
Thursday, January 15, 2009
How do you go green when your biggest waste product is leftovers and bones? Call Spurt Industries. That's what the Amway Grand Plaza and some of the city's top eateries did.
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Sara Cosgrove
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Who needs Whole Foods? Natural and organic grocery stores are committed to West Michigan's neighborhood revitilization. In some hoods, they're the only grocer on the block.
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Sara Cosgrove
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Teacher turned songwriter Karisa Wilson is the reigning Jammie winner for Best Album and one of the local scene's fastest rising stars. Have a listen
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Andy Dragt
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Named for the last-stand pub of
Shaun of the Dead, The Winchester has brought a vacant Wealthy Street structure back as a potentially very lively public house.
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