Recent data (up through September 2025) demonstrates a softening of rent growths. Rents increased 3% in 2024 - 2025 after a growth of 4% in 2023 - 2024 and a growth of 3% in 2022 - 2023; this is significant decline in growth from the inflationary years of 2020 - 2022 with growth rates of 12% and 10% respectively.
There has been a lot happening on the mobility front, ranging from a plethora of bike land and trail projects to a new state budget (public transportation).
Norm Van Eeden Petersman, the Director of Membership for Strong Towns, will be presenting on October 28th at the DGRi conference room (29 Pearl St NW Suite 1). The night's conversation will focus on safe and productive streets, multi-modal transportation, and how we can achieve positive incremental changes in Grand Rapids.
The municipal agenda for the Planning Commission meeting on 2025-10-09 is 👉here👈
735 Ritzema Ct. SW
The is a request for a Special Land Use (SLU) for the operation of a childcare and social services facility which is a use which requires special dispensation with the properties LDR (Low-Density Residential) zone district.
