The Hoopla Around Huff Park

UPDATE 2023-08-02: The owner of the properties backed out of the meeting of the Creston Land Use committee scheduled for 2023-08-02. You can read 👉the letter from Copperrock Construction👈. In short, there is no plan to present. This is a textbook example of an outbreak of NIMBY Fever.

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Planning Agenda: 2023-07-13

UPDATE 2023-11-13: Related to 210 Fairbanks / 628 Coit Ave N - Resolution authorizing conditional approval of tax exemption and payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) – Union Suites on Coit II, City Commission agenda, 2023-11-14

2023 Meeting Schedule

UPDATE: As of, and including, the October 5th meeting the venue for MobileGR Commission meetings has moved to the third floor of the GRPL Main Library (111 Library St NE)

Data Point: 2023-01, The ZORI & For-Sale

Time to check the data again.


ZORI (Observed Rents)

A 12 month increase of $157/mo (+9.2%).

Housing NEXT Needs Update

The update of the Housing NEXT needs assessment has been released.

Document @ Housing Needs Assessment | Grand Rapids/Kent County, MI 2022 [PDF, 172 pages]

Pere Marquette Ridership Recovery

Can we declare ridership on the Amtrak 370/371 corridor - the Pere Marquette - to be recovered? 2022 ridership (89,539) exceeded that of 2017 (87,276).

The all time highest ridership year is 2018 with 96,643 riders, followed by 2019 with only a few hundred less.

Now we are back to ridership growth on the Pere Marquette being limited by capacity and frequency.

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Planning Commission Agenda, 2023-02-23

UPDATE 2024-03-21: The project to construct a food truck court and bar at 648 Bridge NW / 345 Lexington NW has been abandoned. The new project for the site, still in the design phase, is a five story 150 unit apartment block by the same developer as The Current under construction in Creston (220 Quimby St. NE).

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