Salvation Army's
Kroc Center celebrates first year in Grand Rapids
By John Agar | The Grand
Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS – As the
Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center celebrated
its first year, Rachel Montes felt fortunate to have
such a facility just around the corner.
There's an aquatic center, workout area, computer
labs, basketball and volleyball courts, art rooms
decorated with kids' creations, a climbing wall and
game rooms. Kids can learn to swim, or learn the
piano or guitar, or hang out with friends in a safe
place. Or enjoy the 500-seat amphitheater, or
worship services.
The Rapid
millage increase approved by 136 votes By Kyla King | The Grand Rapids Press
Update: Rapid millage wins by 136 votes.
Voters in the city of Grand Rapids and East Grand
Rapids overpowered suburban voters to pass The Rapid
transit millage property tax increase by what
appears to be 136 votes.
The Rapid will
ask voters for property tax increase next May or
November By Kyla King | The Grand Rapids Press
Voters in six Kent County cities will not be asked
in a special February 2011 election to increase
property taxes for expanded and high speed bus
service. But they are likely to see the question on
the ballot in the May or November elections.
Members of the board that governs The Rapid mass
transit bus system directed staff on Wednesday to
prepare materials so they can decide in January when
to ask voters in Grand Raids, East Grand Rapids,
Wyoming, Kentwood, Grandville and Walker to increase
the current five-year 1.12 mill levy by 0.35 mills
to a total of 1.47 mills for seven years. That
increase would cost the owner of a $150,000 home an
extra $26.25 a year.
GRAND RAPIDS -- Within
10 years, The Rapid buses could run until midnight
on weekdays, all routes would run on Sundays and the
wait for a bus would be 15 minutes much of the time.
Those are some of the suggested improvements in a
new transit master plan intended to guide how the
bus system expands over the next 10 to 20 years. [click to continue reading]
First and foremost, I would
like to address the Division Avenue Business
Association and a special thanks to their President
Tommy Brann- without their tiresome work Division
Avenue would not be rebounded as significantly as it
is. Please visit their website for further
information on membership and business opportunities
at
http://www.d-a-b-a.org
4044 Division Avenue is truly an amazing “before and
after” story- what was once a forgotten vacancy
seemed to be transformed overnight into one of Grand
Rapids most esteemed custom paint and motorcycle
shops- D.C. Customs...
[click to continue reading]
GRAND RAPIDS -- A
proposed high-speed bus line project along Division
Avenue appears back on track, despite voters
narrowly rejecting millage funding for it last
spring.
A nearly 10-mile stretch of the so-called Silver
Line Bus Service could be open in less than two
years, said Peter Varga, CEO of Interurban Transit
Partnership, known as The Rapid.
Peter VargaThat's close to the same time frame
proposed a year ago.
City of Wyoming leaders
recently examined the future of the Division Avenue
area between 56th and 60th Streets, pledging a great
deal of support for a future Bus Rapid Transit
service at that location.
Through a joint Planning
Commission and City Council meeting, City Planner
Tim Cochran presented a plan that would transform
the project area, commonly referred to as Fisher’s
Station, into a mixed use/transit oriented
development that would feature three to four story
retail buildings, a large variety of residential
dwellings, parks, greenways, interconnected roadways
and more. [click to continue reading on MLive]
But funding a new bus system along Division Avenue
into Grand Rapids could pay big dividends for at
least two of the three cities on the Interurban
Transit Partnership's southern flank.
A levy request on the May 5 ballot would leverage
$40 million of state and federal money to build the
Silver Line, a network of 19 bus stations from 60th
Street northward.
[click to continue reading on MLive]
March 31st, 2009
Bus millage to be decided on
May 5 ballot
The Silver Line bus rapid
transit system could take riders from 60th Street to
the medical mile on Michigan Street in 27 minutes.
It's eight hybrid electric buses could carry
commuters in a designated lane on its 9.87-mile
route along Division Avenue making stops at 28th,
36th, 44th and 54th Street intersections and 15
others.
[click to continue reading in
the Advance]
September 30th,
2008
A Cleaner Division
[click to read the Advance]
Division Avenue Business
Association members hit the streets recently in
Wyoming to cleanup debris along the corridor and
help continue to enhance the image of the local
shopping area. Click the link above to see
more about the article published in the Advance.
July 12th, 2008 Southlawn
Opening
Awesome! That is the right
word to describe the success of the grand re-opening
ceremony of Southlawn Park this Saturday. Thank you,
thank you to all of our staff, the South Godwin
Neighborhood Association, and Division Avenue
Business Association. Your hard work and support
have made a DIRECT impact on the children and
families of the neighborhood. CLICK
HERE TO VIEW A SLIDE SHOW FROM THE SOUTH LAWN
RE-OPENING
Division
Avenue
October 22nd, 2011
In
memory of David Lance Roberts. Thank you for all that you have done for the DABA.