As economic gloom and doom threatens to swallow Michigan’s southeast side, civic leaders point to Grand Rapids’ green leadership, transit initiatives and energy conservation as new economic models.
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The stock market continues to nosedive. Major financial institutions have crumpled and retirement funds are evaporating. There's no end in sight to the foreclosure pandemic that hit southeast Michigan before most other areas. But in the gloom, some see a shining green beacon, showing the way ahead. Nash and fellow members of the newly formed Regional Sustainability Partnership — which includes Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties and the city of Detroit — need look no further than Grand Rapids for an example of a comprehensive, sustainable philosophy of economic development at work.
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