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The east side of Michigan is often seen as hostile territory by West Michigan developers. The unions, the crime and a work ethic that is seen as being less than that found in the Grand Rapids area are often listed as reasons that no developer or investor in their right mind would ever consider a project over there.
Two Grand Rapids businessmen — Marcel Burgler, Principal of Prime Development and Michael Houseman of Houseman Construction Co. — believe that conventional wisdom is off the mark by about 180 degrees.
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