GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Grand Rapids Home for Veterans began construction in 1885 as the centerpiece of the North End neighborhood that was sprouting around it.
Now, changes coming to the home has everyone wondering what comes next.
This week, officials with the Michigan Veteran’s Affairs Agency confirmed that the property on Coit Avenue near Lamberton Street — where the shuttered former vets’ clinic sits — will not be home to a senior care facility.
A privately run senior care facility was the plan earlier this month, but now the veteran’s agency says it will exercise its prerogative to reacquire the land it sold off in a complicated deal in the 1990s.
Officials tell 24 Hour News 8 that it will allow them greater flexibility as they undertake the construction of a new $54 million facility to replace the current home for veterans.
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