A new family-friendly Tex-Mex restaurant is looking to hire 45 workers before it opens in mid-February inside the Midtowne Village complex  along the ever-growing Medical Mile in Grand Rapids.

Pizza lovers will feel like they are in paradise when they visit a new pizzeria that opened last month in downtown Grand Rapids. Georgio's features 54 different pizzas, including gourmet choices such as black bean, meat lasagna and gyro pizzas. About 30 selections will be displayed in the pizzeria's food case for careful inspection.

Despite the cold weather, 30,000 people packed Rosa Parks Circle in downtown Grand Rapids to ring in the New Year with live entertainment, big-screen shots of the crowd and stage and images projected on the sides of buildings.

With the erection of a 100-foot wind tower, students and faculty at Montague schools have the opportunity to study wind speeds and determine the feasibility of establishing a permanent tower to supplement the schools' energy needs.

The historic Strand Building in downtown Muskegon Heights will at last get a new roof, an outlay the city hopes will be among the first of several needed to rehabilitate the vacant 1920s-era building that once housed a movie theatre.

Plans for a $5 million expansion of The B.O.B, a popular entertainment and dining complex in downtown Grand Rapids, include an incubator space for prospective would-be restaurateurs where they could learn more about the business.

The Rapid mass transit system based in Grand Rapids will break ground this year on a $32.4 million expansion of its operations center and bus garage, a long overdue project kick-started with the help of $10.6 million in federal stimulus funds.