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MSUâs growth to net Kent County $339M annually
Partners publish study on the future economic impact of the four buildings that comprise MSUâs Medical Mile presence. Courtesy Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine officials recently published a study outlining the future economic impact of the four buildings that comprise MSUâs Grand Rapids presence on the Medical Mile.
The buildings include the Secchia Center, the MSU Grand Rapids Research Center, and two buildings under construction: the Doug Meijer Medical Innovation Building and Perrigo Companyâs North American corporate headquarters, which in the report was dubbed âBuilding 4.â
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The company’s UFP Business School leadership training program has graduated 17 people to date.
Courtesy UPF Industries
The talent shortage is real, and one local company is working to solve it with a training program that turns employees into leaders.
UFP Industries, a Grand Rapids-based holding company whose subsidiaries supply wood, wood composite and other products to the retail, construction and industrial markets, in 2016 quietly launched the UFP Business School, which this summer will be graduating its fourth cohort of students.
The program offers internal and external applicants who have a high school diploma or GED the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree in business administration in just two years, blending on-the-job and classroom experience taught by instructors who are UFP employees and executives. The program is free to students and funded in part by sponsors and the rest by UFP.
More walk-in options open, including at Meijer, as vaccine supply grows
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WALKER Meijer says it is launching walk-in clinics for the COVID-19 vaccines at its pharmacies, though it warns availability of those shots is still limited.
Each Meijer store will have at least 100 walk-up doses either Pfizer or Moderna available each week. The metro Grand Rapids-based retail giant said those doses will go on a first-come, first-served basis.
It cited increased supply in allowing the change.
“The ability to offer the vaccines on a walk-up basis at every Meijer store demonstrates we are getting closer to ensuring everyone has the ability to get vaccinated,” Meijer Vice President of Pharmacy Jason Beauch said in a Monday statement.
City to assess 6th Street site for environmental issues
HOLLAND As tentative plans for new developments north of Sixth Street in downtown Holland take shape, the city is hiring an environmental firm to assess conditions on land that used to be a city dump decades ago.
The site, north of Sixth Street between College Avenue and Columbia, is a target area for several city projects that are in early stages of planning, including a city ice rink.
At a meeting Wednesday, Holland City Council approved a $205,000 contract with Rose and Westra, a Grand Rapids-based division of GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc. to perform the assessment work.
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