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Disability Advocates of Kent County has raised more than $1.75 million to build its new headquarters and accessibility showroom at the Special Olympics campus in Byron Township and is asking the community to chip in another $750,000.
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Grand Rapids Business Journal Two of the region’s economic development agencies awarded more than $6.8 million to a combined 613 small businesses in West Michigan through the Michigan Small Business Survival Grant Program. The Right Place and Lakeshore Advantage said Wednesday that in collaboration with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and regional partners, they awarded funding to eligible West Michigan small businesses that have been negatively impacted by the recent Michigan Department of Health and Human Services epidemic orders via the $55 million Michigan Small Bus...
Grand Rapids Business Journal Jamiel Robinson CATEGORY: Economic Development WINNERS: Guillermo Cisneros and Jamiel Robinson for The Right Place, Mike Ramirez and Holly Johnson for Lakeshore Advantage ORGANIZATIONS: The Right Place and Lakeshore Advantage The region’s two foremost economic development agencies, The Right Place and Lakeshore Advantage, leveraged community leaders’ input in 2020 to administer state and federal funding to hundreds of small businesses to help them survive the COVID-19 pandemic and economic fallout. The Michigan Strategic Fund, through the federal CARES Act a...
Harbor Springs High School boasts a state-of-art, 400-seat performing arts center, on left. About 20 miles east, Inland Lakes Schools uses a middle school gym, right, for the same purpose. Folding chairs are added for seating. (Bridge photos by John Russell) Breezing north up I-75 – just 30 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge – it's easy to miss the Indian River exit sign. Except for the Cross in the Woods, a nearby 55-foot redwood crucifix that draws the occasional tourist, and snowmobile trails that pull in a few more, this sparsely settled region is a place where economic survival can ...