Picnic on Wealthy: Inside the new food truck garden in Grand Rapids
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A once-quiet green space along Wealthy Street is finding new life as a destination designed to feel more like a neighborhood backyard than a traditional night out. Picnic on Wealthy, a food truck garden at 734 Wealthy St. SE in Grand Rapids, has opened in...
Grand Rapids’ Wealthy Street Picnic Turns Food Trucks, Taproom Into Summer Hangout
Grand Rapids has a new kind of neighborhood hangout, where a Hawaiian-inspired plate lunch, an Italian frozen dessert and a cold beer can all happen within a few steps of one another. Picnic on Wealthy pairs permanent food trucks with a landscaped garden built for lingering, complete with shaded seating, string lights,
Events & Activities to kick off the first weekend of August
It's the first weekend of August, and West Michigan is host to several events to enjoy with friends and family!
Body of missing swimmer recovered from the Grand River near Grandville
GRANDVILLE, MI - The body of a swimmer who went missing in the Grand River Friday afternoon has been recovered after a nearly two-day search. At approximately 12:46 p.m. Friday, the Grandville Police Department and the Grandville Fire Department were dispatched to the Grand River near the 4,000 block of Indian Mounds D
Locals Are Obsessed With The Deep Fried Cod At This Unassuming Michigan Restaurant
There are restaurants that make you feel important, and then there’s Fat Man’s Fish Fry in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which makes you feel something much better: genuinely, completely fed. That’s a distinction worth understanding before you go. The first thing you notice is the sign. A round,...
Where there’s smoke, there’s BBQ: Grand Rapids pitmaster turned rented grill into thriving business
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — When Eddie “Big Ed” Riley decided to serve barbecue at a Grand Rapids neighborhood festival in 2016, he didn’t own a smoker or have much experience cooking for a crowd. What he did have was a family history rooted in barbecue and...
Ever driven down Grand Rapids’ Cass Avenue? Its namesake has a problematic history
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Michigan’s territorial governor Lewis Cass is the namesake behind both Grand Rapids’ and Detroit’s Cass Avenue. Cass was instrumental in growing Michigan from a territory into statehood, but for Indigenous communities throughout the state, Cass’s legacy is one of systematic dispossession of tribal l
MSP: Northbound US-131 lanes closed in Grand Rapids after 10-car crash
Drivers are being advised to seek an alternate route as the northbound lanes of US-131 remain closed at Hall Street following a crash involving multiple vehicles.
‘It’s full circle for me’: GR Housing Commission adapts to changing needs
When Jose Capeles’ family moved from Philadelphia to Grand Rapids in 1991, they were starting over. His grandfather lived at Creston Plaza, an apartment community owned by the Grand Rapids Housing Commission. The family stayed there while they got settled in their new city. A few years later, the...
Analysis finds wildfire smoke has cost Michigan businesses billions
A new analysis from an economic group based out of Lansing says the recent wildfire smoke from Canada and northern Minnesota has cost the state billions in economic revenue.
