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"We wanted to have a theme and spectacular decor to match the food, it's a whole experience."

A new bar with live jazz and blues music is planned for a spot downtown Grand Rapids that's been vacant since Raggs to Riches closed in 2012.

Police say the attack Monday night, around 7:30 pm, was unprovoked.

The area affected is from College Ave to Lafayette Ave.

First, how did I not hear about a “crack fries eat off” at HopCat? I think I could have been a contender. Second, this lady is a boss!

In January, downtown Grand Rapids lost a popular, and really needed business. If you work downtown, and ever needed something quick, like a snack, or cigarettes, candy, magazines, newspapers, whatever...you would go to Elliott's.

Downtown Grand Rapids is booming! The city is growing at a pace that we haven't seen in a long time and that fact is even more evident as of yesterday when Orion Construction broke ground on two new towers. The two towers will be located on the grounds of the former Ellis Parking lot at 150 Ottawa Ave...

It's hard to go anywhere without seeing an ugly Christmas sweater, now ugly Christmas trees are making their mark too. Montreal is drawing thousands to the city after putting up an ugly Christmas tree. Should Grand Rapids get its own ugly Christmas tree downtown?

Expansion of DeVos Place Convention Center, a soccer stadium, and a new hotel are all projects being considered by Grand Action, a business-based nonprofit, responsible for Van Andel Arena, Civic Theatre, Downtown Market, and more.

Yet another iconic West Michigan brewery is building a location in Downtown Grand Rapids.  New Holland Brewing Co. is opening The Knickerbocker downtown this Thursday, September 15th. The location will include a restaurant, taproom, and an on-site brewery, and distillery...

The GRPD is adding a fifth service area to better cover downtown Grand Rapids, Fox 17 reports. Currently, the City of Grand Rapids is broken into four distinct Service Areas: North, South, East, and West.

I live pretty close to downtown Grand Rapids. Whenever I'm asked what downtown GR is lacking, I always say the same thing-- a grocery store! Well, now it looks like one may be on the way. Kind of. From the sound of it, the new store proposed at 38 Commerce will have more options than what's currently available, but won't carry all the items one might seek on a full-on trip to the grocery store. Re