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In 1962 Meijer launched its modern format with a store at the corner of 28th Street and Kalamazoo Avenue in Grand Rapids called "Thrifty Acres." At a size of 180,000 square feet (17,000 m 2), [11] it combined grocery shopping and department store shopping in a single large store. The store was built with six-inch-thick (150 mm) floors, so ...
26-23980 [2] GNIS feature ID. 0625189 [3] Website. Official website. East Grand Rapids is a city in Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,371. [4] The city is part of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area, including Grand Rapids and Grand Rapids Township, but the city is administered autonomously.
Operator (s) Lew Chamberlin and Denny Baxter. General manager. Jim Jarecki. Manager. Brayan Peña. The West Michigan Whitecaps are a Minor League Baseball team of the Midwest League and the High-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. They are located in Comstock Park, Michigan, a suburb of Grand Rapids, and play their home games at LMCU Ballpark .
Gerald R. Ford International Airport. / 42.88083°N 85.52278°W / 42.88083; -85.52278. Grand Rapids Gerald R. Ford International Airport ( IATA: GRR, ICAO: KGRR, FAA LID: GRR) is a commercial airport in Cascade Township, approximately 13 miles (21 km) southeast of Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. The facility is owned by the Kent ...
Makerspace at McMillan Memorial Library. In addition to its collection, the library offers many other services to patrons. There are two meeting rooms, a 249-seat theater used for movies and performances, a 'Commons', which is designed to function as a third place, a coffee house, a recently renovated children's library with hand-on activities, environmental learning station, and story area ...
July 19, 2024 at 3:32 PM. WISCONSIN RAPIDS − A fire that started in a bedroom late Thursday afternoon has displaced 19 residents of Hilltop of Pepper. At 4:47 p.m. Thursday, a caller reported a ...
Grand Rapids is a city in and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States. [4] At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 198,893, [5] making it the second-most populous city in Michigan, after Detroit.
At the end of the Civil War in 1865, Prussian-American businessman and Union Army veteran William G. Herpolsheimer co-founded the dry goods business Voight, Herpolsheimer & Co. in Michigan City, Indiana, in partnership with Charles G. A. Voigt. In 1870, he opened a second store in Grand Rapids. He handed over management of the business to his ...