GRAND RAPIDS, MI — For Matthew’s House, a rescue mission that serves Grand Rapids’ West Side, its request to move to a new building on Leonard Street NW presents an opportunity to serve the homeless community in a bigger, more comfortable space.
Houston Moyer sees it differently.
He’s renovating a vacant commercial building next door to the proposed Matthew’s House location at 1050 Leonard St. NW and is urging the Grand Rapids Planning Commission to reject the rescue mission’s request for a special land use permit needed to open there…