Maureen A. Hickey

ABOUT THE GRAND RAPIDS AREA:

Grand Rapids is Michigan's second largest city, and home to numerous industries, museums, art galleries, professional sports teams, and other venues of entertainment. Despite its size, Grand Rapids maintains small-town values and fosters great community pride. Outside the city, the area features many recreational opportunities, such as boating, fishing, golfing, and skiing. We are only a short distance to Lake Michigan but with our interstate system, you can be to Detroit, Chicago, Lansing, Traverse City and Canada within hours!
 
From our Downtown Grand Rapids office, we service communities in Kent, Ottawa, and Muskegon Counties, specializing in residential, vacant, & recreational properties. Waterfront properties on numerous lakes and rivers can also be found all around our region.

The Gerald R. Ford International Airport (GRR) is Michigan's second busiest commercial airport and the 85th busiest commercial airport in the nation. It is served by 7 passenger airlines with almost 120 daily scheduled non-stop flights to and from 16 major market destinations. Nearly 5,500 travelers pass through GRR each day. This all adds up to almost 2 million passengers traveling through GRR in 2007. GRR even has free wireless access throughout the passenger terminal facility (curbside to plane). With this kind of service, there's no need to fly out of Detroit or Chicago! Courtesy of GRR

 

 

 

Did you know...?

  • Since 1922, the Fulton Street Farmer's Market has offered locally grown fruits, vegetables and plants, and homemade arts and crafts?
  • West Michigan is rapidly becoming a center for independent filmmaking?
  • The brand new Grand Rapids Art Museum is the world's first LEED-certified art museum?
  • Once Milennium Park is complete, it will be nearly 2.5 times larger than New York's Central Park?
  • In addition to President Gerald R. Ford, West Michigan claims quite a few celebrities such as Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., Red Hot Chili Pepper Anthony Kiedis, and X-Files actress Gillian Anderson, and more?

These are just a few of the fun facts and bits of trivia offered in the The Right Place Program's "57 Things To Know About Greater Grand Rapids" brochure. It will enable you to see the benefits of living and working in West Michigan, and specifically, in the Greater Grand Rapids area. Right in the center of the electronic brochure is a button that will take you to the "LIVE VIBRANTLY" video. This video contains four minutes of testimonials regarding the big-city feel and smaller-city charm of our region's vibrant neighborhoods, boutique shopping areas, outstanding health care, recreational attractions, low cost of living, home ownership opportunities, and tree-lined, traffic-free streets.

If you can't visit the area at this time or just want to meet right now the people who live here and love it here, then just read this brochure and watch the video. You'll want to live here too!  

http://www.rightplace.org/live