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If you’re new to Grand Rapids, you may not know what downtown used to be like.
Steve Heacock, Chairman of the Arena-Convention authority and a member of Grand Action remembers the past when the areas around Ionia Avenue and Fulton Street became a ghost town after 5 p.m.
In the early 1990s, “Grand Action” was formed, a group to push large-scale projects to bring people back through private/public partnerships. Now, leaders of Grand Action now say their job is done.
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