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Grand Rapids, Michigan. / 42.96111°N 85.65556°W / 42.96111; -85.65556. 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. Grand Rapids is the central city of the Grand ...
201 Market Ave. SW. Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503. Capacity. 12,000. Construction. Construction cost. $184 million (planned cost, 2023) Acrisure Amphitheater is a 12,000 seat outdoor amphitheater planned to break ground in Grand Rapids, Michigan in early 2024 and to be completed by 2026. [ 1]
Description. 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.
The Grand Rapids metropolitan area is a triangular shaped Metro Triplex, in West Michigan, which fans out westward from the primary hub city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, to the other two metro hubs of Muskegon and Holland. The metropolitan area had an estimated population of 1,059,113 in 2017. [ 3] The region, noted in particular for its western ...
The city of Grand Rapids was incorporated April 2, 1850. [ 9] It was officially established on May 2, 1850, when the village of Grand Rapids voted to accept the proposed city charter. The population at the time was 2,686. By 1857, the city of Grand Rapids' area totaled 10.5 square miles (27 km 2 ).
The 2013 Grand Rapids flood lasted from April 12 to 25, 2013, affecting multiple areas in the Grand Rapids metropolitan area. [2] [3] Sudden heavy rainfall, saturation of the ground from rainwater and the flow of tributaries caused the Grand River to rise dramatically, with the river cresting at 21.85 feet (6.66 m) in Grand Rapids on April 21, 2013. [4]
Further excavations were undertaken by H. E. Sargent in 1915. In 1936, Mrs. W. B. Stiles deeded the land that many of the mounds were located on to the city of Grand Rapids, and the area became a city park. [3] The site was listed on the Michigan Register of Historic Sites in 1957, [5] and it was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965 ...
Share of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, issued 22. December 1868. After grappling with financial difficulties for many years, the company opened service between Bridge Street in Grand Rapids to Cedar Springs, Michigan, on December 25, 1867, a distance of about 20 miles (32 km). The gross earnings of the railroad in 1867 were about $22,700.