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Zoned Out: Again the City Votes to Demolish Homes in Grand Rapids (1995)
This article is from the Independent newspaper, the FUNdamentalist, November of 1995. Just weeks after the Grand Rapids City Commissioners voted to destroy some 70 houses on the westside to make way for parking, they voted again in August to … Continue reading
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