Grand Rapids shoppers traveled downtown to visit Wurzburgs in the 1920s-1970s for upscale clothing and fine home goods imported from Europe and the Far East.
Downtown Grand Rapids has been evolving for more than the past 50 years. But most currently, let's say the past 26-years since the VanAndel Arena was built, that's when Downtown Grand Rapids really amped it up!
Who remembers the short lived City Centre mall in downtown Grand Rapids? What fun it was to shop there through it's many floors and take the glass elevators up to the top.
Kiplinger.com published an article about obsolescence, businesses and things that have been a part of our lives for years, but because of emerging technologies, changing shopping/dining habits, are going away, never to be seen again. Our world is changing at a record pace.