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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak to Headline Tech Week Grand Rapids 2025
Tech Week returns September 15–20, 2025 with Wozniak headlining the Kick-off event
The Right Place assists Buell Motorcycles with $18.5 million expansion in Cascade Charter Township
Increased customer demand for locally made Buell Super Cruiser model fuels company’s need for 162 new jobs and expanded facilities
The Right Place assists Wolverine Worldwide with $9 million, three-year project to renovate and expand West Michigan headquarters
Rockford campus being reimagined with new workspaces to foster collaboration and innovation while centralizing core business operations
West Michigan economic development agencies seeking bids for state’s $75 million Revitalization and Placemaking program
The Right Place, Lakeshore Advantage and Greater Muskegon Economic Development looking to help secure funding for public placemaking projects within 13 county region
$6.1M in Revitalization and Placemaking Program funds will support 17 West Michigan placemaking projects
The Right Place, Inc. & Vibrant Futures receive $150,000 grant to assist in expanding childcare options in region
The Right Place will partner with Vibrant Futures to provide leadership and support in expanding the childcare footprint in Kent, Mecosta, Montcalm, Barry and Ionia counties
Community Development in Action: Assisting the Ada Township Downtown Development Authority
How focused facilitation helped build a collaborative roadmap to guide the day-to-day focus of the Ada Township Downtown Development Authority (DDA)
Global life sciences innovator investing $30M to establish headquarters along Grand Rapids’ famed Medical Mile
Global theranostics and radiopharmacy innovator Bold Advanced Medical Future Health (BAMF) will establish its headquarters within Grand Rapids’ Medical Mile. The company expects to add over 200 life science jobs and invest $30 million in its new facility, which is expected to contain the world’s most advanced cyclotron-equipped radiopharmacy, molecular imaging clinic and theranostics clinic.
Kent County Sustainable Business Park for a cleaner tomorrow
What if West Michigan could divert 90% of the trash we send to the landfill, while at the same time creating new jobs and driving economic growth?
The Right Place, Inc. and its regional partners distribute nearly $5M in emergency grant funding
Today The Right Place, Inc., in collaboration with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and regional partners, announced that 426 small businesses have been awarded $4.98M in grant funding. These grants were awarded to eligible West Michigan small businesses who have been negatively impacted by the recent Michigan Department of Health and Human Services epidemic orders.
