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[organsnyder]

NPR's All Things Considered had a segment today focusing on two cities that are doing well despite the difficult economy: Nashville and Grand Rapids. Mayor Heartwell was interviewed.
http://www.npr.org/2...-staying-afloat

[MiGuyz]

A Vibrant Career at the Ballet, but With a Lens and Not Toeshoes

"His first project is discussing with Paris officials the possibility of displaying his 300-foot-long painting of the Joffrey dancer Fabrice Calmels along the bank of the Seine. The piece made its debut last year at ArtPrize 2010, in Grand Rapids, Mich."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/us/a-vibrant-career-at-the-ballet-but-with-a-lens-and-not-toeshoes.html

[Veloise]

MiGuyz, on 13 October 2011 - 08:05 PM, said:

A Vibrant Career at the Ballet, but With a Lens and Not Toeshoes

"His first project is discussing with Paris officials the possibility of displaying his 300-foot-long painting of the Joffrey dancer Fabrice Calmels along the bank of the Seine. The piece made its debut last year at ArtPrize 2010, in Grand Rapids, Mich."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/us/a-vibrant-career-at-the-ballet-but-with-a-lens-and-not-toeshoes.html

Went looking...apparently one panel of "Swimmer 300" blew into the river.
Found a photo of it; this is the first time I saw it. #notaprominentlocation
http://www.flickr.co..._leo/5033532969

[tSlater]

I remember that piece and recently saw a photo of it floating around somewhere.  Hopefully it won't blow away into the Seine.

[arcturus]

Grand Rapids mentioned along with Detroit and Akron as cities continuing to have extreme poverty (the poorest poor) in a newly released report.  It's throughout the web.  Here's one site:

http://www.msnbc.msn...e/#.TrMriUPkBBE

[Paramaribo]

The WSJ reports Grand Rapids having the highest increase in medium single home prices in the country: a 23.7% increase.

South Bend is next at 19.8%, then Palm Bay, FL at 17.7%, Youngstown, OH at 13.1%, and Green Bay at 12.6%.

The article - "Home Prices Keep Dropping" - points out that the national medium dropped by 4.7%.

Are we ahead or behind the curve? Either way - it looks good for GR.

[joeDowntown]

[Take with a grain of salt] My Zillow.com estimate on my house jumped 21% last month. Don't know if I could actually sell it for the price listed, but encouraging.

Joe

[fotoman311]

An AP story out of Omaha that some of my Omaha friends have posted on Facebook mentions Grand Rapids.  It's about the spread of people paying off random people's Kmart layaway bills for Christmas toys.  It started at the Plainfield Township Kmart a week ago.  Since then, there have been reports of it happening all over the nation.

http://finance.yahoo...-222535611.html

http://www.mlive.com...unds_stran.html

[RegalTDP]

I've noticed we're mostly past the point where a shoutout to GR from a website - least of all, a slideshow - should get us excited.  But this link I caught via Rapid Growth was different:

http://newyork.grubs...#photo=53x00003

At first, I was like, big deal.  But then I read through the rest of it, and noticed that this is a really exclusive list - there's a lot of recognizable names, celebrity chefs and the like, being thrown around in this article.  That Grove is compared alongside them is really notable.

And beyond that, only a few cities are included - and none comparable to GR in size.  OK, Charleston and Portland, ME are smaller, but they're also established culinary destinations.  Chicago and Cleveland are the only others representing the midwest.

Good for Grove.  I want to try that dessert now.

Edited by RegalTDP, 19 February 2012 - 03:36 AM.

[gvsusean]

http://itineraries.m...-carousels?lite

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