EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Some in East Grand Rapids are concerned about the effect of a $30 million parking ramp proposal from Spectrum Health Blodgett Hospital on their neighborhood.
The three-year project would add a parking ramp at each end of the hospital, located along Plymouth Avenue SE between Wealthy and Sherman streets. Spectrum says it hasn’t yet been decided how many stories the ramps would have.
Neighbors who live across the street are not happy with the idea of looking out at a cement wall.
“This is something that you would expect to see downtown Grand Rapids or maybe Chicago but certainly not in East Grand Rapids,” David Brown, whose family lives at the corner of Sherman and Plymouth, said.