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It was built in 1980 and is home to the Grand Rapids Symphony and Broadway Grand Rapids. DeVos Performance Hall has hosted concerts by artists such as B.B. King, Barenaked Ladies, James Taylor, Tori Amos, Eddie Money, Sammy Hagar, Harry Connick, Jr., and Ne-yo.
A 14,000-square-foot Detroit taproom opened in 2017. It primarily served beers made in Grand Rapids, but also had a four-barrel brewing facility that could produce about eight kegs a week, allowing it to serve other beers as well. [33] The Detroit taproom closed May 1, 2023. [34]
Towne Club is a local brand of soft drink produced and sold primarily in the metropolitan area of Detroit, Michigan. It is also sold in Flint , Grand Rapids , Lansing , Kalamazoo , Saginaw , Traverse City , Tampa, Florida , Indianapolis, Indiana , Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio at one time.
The Ledyard Block Historic District is a group of seven adjacent, coherently designed, nineteenth century commercial structures located within a square block at 123-145 Ottawa Avenue and 104-124 Monroe Center, NW, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The group of buildings was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
After the French established territories in Michigan, Jesuit missionaries and traders traveled down Lake Michigan and its tributaries. [7]In 1806, white trader Joseph La Framboise and his Métis wife, Madeline La Framboise, traveled by canoe from Mackinac Island and established the first trading post in West Michigan in present-day Grand Rapids on the banks of the Grand River, near what is now ...
Described sometimes as the Greenwich Village of Grand Rapids, [2] it is considered a liberal oasis in a generally conservative area. [3] Today a walkable mixed-use neighborhood, Eastown began as a streetcar commuter suburb, midway between downtown Grand Rapids and the resort area of Reeds Lake. Eastown has an active community association ...
Heritage Hill is adjacent to downtown Grand Rapids and is the city's oldest residential district. Its 1,300 homes date from 1843 and represent Michigan's largest and finest concentration of nineteenth and early twentieth-century houses. Nearly every style of American architecture, from Greek Revival to Prairie is represented.
Reeds Lake, East Grand Rapids, MI., was a favorite summer-time destination. In 1872 the Reeds Lake and Grand Rapids Railway was established and used horse powered trams. A 10-ton steam engine , powerful enough to pull three open train cars all the way to Reeds Lake, was introduced in 1877.