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AeroMed To Park Daily in Big Rapids
BIG RAPIDS — Aero Med is stationing a helicopter in Big Rapids daily, which is expected to cut response times for the air ambulance service.
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Airport Hotel Changing
GRAND RAPIDS — The Days Inn Grand Rapids Airport Hotel will soon start converting to a Clarion Inn & Suites, a Choice Hotels International brand.
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Allendale Home To New
Metro Health Center
ALLENDALE — Metro Health is preparing to open its 13th neighborhood outpatient center in Allendale Township in early 2009, Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations Jim Childress said last week.
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Alticor Moving To Unrivaled Building
ADA — Alticor Inc. will begin transferring its information technology department from its corporate headquarters in Ada this fall to a one-of-a-kind building in Caledonia, situated south of 68th Street between Patterson and Kraft avenues.
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Change Is In The Wind
A familiar name for local business and consumer travelers has been altered to put a renewed emphasis on the status of the former Carson Wagonlit travel business, with six outlets in the greater Grand Rapids area. The business's new moniker: Travel Leaders.
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Charity Care Increases At Saint Mary's
GRAND RAPIDS — Saint Mary's Health Care spent more than its operating margin for its community benefit programs in fiscal 2008, CFO Steve Pirog said last week.
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City Waiting For Federal
Foreclosure Fund Help
GRAND RAPIDS — The federal government is getting set to release $3.9 billion to help communities buy and fix up foreclosed properties. The Center for American Progress reported that Michigan is one of a dozen states likely to get more than $100 million of those funds, and the city is looking forward to receiving its share, whatever that amount may be.
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Commercial Realtors Eye MBT Relief
GRAND RAPIDS — Some players in the commercial real estate business are said to be facing an increase of 300 to 600 percent in the amount paid in Michigan business tax, but relief is reportedly on the way.
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Eco-Friendly Geothermal On Tap
GRAND RAPIDS — With Kent County adding a geothermal system to its plan for the new 63rd District courthouse, it will use one system to provide both heating and cooling to the building.
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Kent County Doing Two LEED Projects
GRAND RAPIDS — Kent County has two new construction projects this year worth roughly $36 million, and county officials will seek LEED certification for both.
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Kent May Buy Parkland
GRAND RAPIDS — County Commissioners are scheduled to decide Thursday whether to buy nearly six acres of land adjacent to Fallasburg Park for $99,000 plus closing costs.
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Kent May Buy Parkland
GRAND RAPIDS — County Commissioners are scheduled to decide Thursday whether to buy nearly six acres of land adjacent to Fallasburg Park for $99,000 plus closing costs.
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Merged Muskegon Hospitals Fare Well
Spoelman
MUSKEGON — Mercy Health Partners, created by the April merger between Hackley Hospital and Mercy General Health Partners, is projecting a positive margin of 4.1 percent for the 2008-09 fiscal year, CEO Roger Spoelman said.
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New Commercial Project
Set For Vacant Property
GRAND RAPIDS — Because the city recently revised a three-year-old brownfield, a new commercial development will get started on Michigan Street next spring, one that not only has the strong support of city officials but also the backing of neighborhood and business associations.
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Parking Deck Rising In Downtown Holland
HOLLAND — Construction on Holland’s first-ever parking ramp got underway in mid-July on the north side of Seventh Street between College and Columbia avenues.
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Partners Debut Medical Supply Firm
Kevin Fahl (seated) and Richard Ortega, who co-own Alternative Medical Supplies, are pictured with production specialist Maribeth Hollern.GRAND RAPIDS — A new minority-owned medical device and supplies business —Alternative Medical Supplies — has sprouted on Monroe Avenue, and the company’s co-founders hope their efforts will create more job opportunities for minorities here.
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Rally Sets Record Tally
GRAND RAPIDS — The most successful Rally for Hope and Hunger ever raised $86,912 for two local organizations, reported Rockford Construction Co., the event’s founder.
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Scrap Yard Lofts Opens This Fall
HOLLAND — Bosgraaf Commercial is moving right along on its redevelopment of a long-abandoned Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Co. building into a mixed-used development featuring 23 loft-style residential condos as well as commercial space.
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Success Stories Spur Optimism
Honda isn’t building a plant in West Michigan but the announcement of more than 1,000 anticipated new jobs from the lakeshore to Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo is just as big.
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Telecommuting: Boon Or Bane?
GRAND RAPIDS — The last time telecommuting was encouraged by employers was during the 1970s, due to the oil crisis and economic recession, said Susan Ascher, president and CEO of The Ascher Group, a national provider of human resources contract professionals and a specialist on workplace and job market issues. And just like aviator sunglasses, an economic recession and oil crisis are back in force, which means working at home is making a comeback.
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Vander Veen Vies For Power
Rich Vander Veen notes that one third of all new commercial generating developments now are wind power.LOWELL — If there's a high, windy ridge out in the undeveloped countryside somewhere in Michigan, chances are Rich Vander Veen has been there.
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