Urban Grand Rapids

It has been a long time in the making, riders have been able to feel it coming, and now it's here: the service cuts. DASH service since the launch of the DASH v3.0 routes in May (2023) has not operated Monday or Tuesday, the other days of the week it has been unreliable (not 15 minute headways). Ghost buses have begun appearing across the network, a phenomenon rarely experienced in previous years.

This is a summarized list of various meetings happening throughout the city, in one convenient location.

Notes

The Keeler building has been sitting empty at 56 Division Ave N since 1995 [28 years]. It's looming and dilapidated presence creates a dead feeling intersection on the east edge of downtown proper, amplified by adjacency to two parking lots and the AT&T switch building.

UPDATE 2024-01-30: There is a Crains article concerning the 916 Benjamin Ave project, and its potential demise due to costs and financing, 👉here👈.

UPDATE 2023-12-15: All items on the agenda were approved. Stream can be found 👉here👈.

UPDATE 2023-12-07: The development at 916 Benjamin Ave was pulled from the agenda.

Happy Holidays! There are so many things to be 🦃thankful🦃 for today; big things.

Received from the City Communications Department.

The Mackinaw Center's Issues & Ideas Forum hosted a session entitled "Why Michigan Should Embrace Zoning Reform". The three guest panelists included Joshua Lunger of the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce, Jessica Letaw who is an activist and organizer in Ann Arbor, and Emily Hamilton an urban economic and land-use policy scholar of George Mason University.

If you are not planning for your housing future as a community you are committing economic suicide.

- Joshua Lunger, quoting Malcom Gladwell. 👏👏👏