The city of Coopersville is hoping to attract some of the expansion along Medical Mile in Grand Rapids by becoming the first municipality to join the Medical Mile Resource Group. By their involvement in the group, city leaders hope some new residents and businesses attracted to the growing concentration of medical-related activity along Michigan Street NE will want to settle in a rural community like Coopersville that's almost 19 miles northwest of the city.
According to excerpts from the story:
The contacts we get will be worth their weight in gold,” said Cindy Timmerman, director of the Coopersville Area Chamber of Commerce. Through involvement in the group, she said, she hopes people moving to the area to work on Medical Mile will see Coopersville as a nonurban, nearby place to live.
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